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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I suppose that does happen and rather often. However, I
have experienced a lot of feedback from many people in every competition I’ve
entered. I almost always have someone come up to me afterwards and
comment on the material that I presented and what they liked or didn’t
like. I rarely have written documentation (I am working on improving
that), but I can tell where the piece is from or what history it is based
on. I have several times received tokens of appreciation directly from
those who saw me perform and liked some aspect of it or were inspired. In
my experience when my daughter or I receive largess for a performance it is
presented with a thank you and what they specifically enjoyed. This can
be soooo useful. It was nice to hear at Castellan that I had finally
succeeded in portraying a monologue as a real woman having conversation with
another, rather than a memorized dramatic work. It was a far different
response than the encouragement a couple years ago to continue working on my
Shakespeare performances and not to be discouraged which included tips on what
aspects needed adjustment (namely staging) and some largess that reminds me of
her words every time I see it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The one time I have done performance A&S we did receive judging
sheets back with wonderful feedback, but it was a different venue, it was
performance A&S and documentation was expected. In other competitions
it was difficult to get even the A&S judging sheets because they weren’t
available when the entries were picked up and you had to find the right person
(and remember to find them) after court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>In A&S competitions, I’ve noticed people will leave
tokens of appreciation, but the feedback is usually only from the judges and
you often don’t hear what others liked or felt could be improved on your
work. (Some of this may be because they don’t have the supplies to leave
a note and entries are anonymous, but I’m not sure) This is even more
evident in children’s, youth or novice competitions where people seem to
be scared to critique a piece for fear of discouraging the entrant. Maybe
that is the same reason applause is still given to bad performance as
well. I don’t know, I’m just throwing out my own experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Liliana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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