Rehearsals Part 1

A few days ago, we started our rehearsals for the TIE production. We started off with confused ideas about the theme that we had set up: "Western v.s. Chinese" and focusing on an international aspect for the theme. We had very scattered ideas at first that confused us for what do in the production as a whole. Later, we further discussed how the international student aspect could be fixed to the theme and how it can be focused. After this, we were more focused on what to do for the production, since this was the major idea that we were confused about.
We started thinking about the opening scene for the production. Before this, we had come up with different improvisations of different ideas of diversity between the cultures. For the opening scene, we started thinking about eight statements (one for each of us). These statements were based off of different stereotypes given from the two different cultures on international  students. We also found three different tracks of music that could be played in the opening scene that were "hybrids" of the two different cultures.
I thought the most important value I got from the first rehearsals were that it is very important to improvise scenes and ideas through acting on the spot rather than planning everything out before acting the ideas out. I think it is a value that is very important to know for the future not only with theatre productions but with other areas of expertise. Therefore, I thought that although the first rehearsals was a confusing process of developing ideas but it was a great learning process for me.