https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojv2z58SrC8
GROUP 2: Performing Arts
Title: KSENIYA SIMONOVA-PESOUNAYA ANIMATSIYA WORLD WAR 2
ANALYSES:
#5 – Asis
Kseniya Simonova is a great artist and a very good story teller. She won the Ukraine Got Talent last 2009, her World War 2 performance was for semifinalist and because of that she moved to grand finals. The story of that is about the young couple separated by the war. Kseniya’s husband is the one who told her to join to that competition and he is also the one who brought volcanic sand for her.
Kseniya’s aura adds impact to her performance and even her background music, her hands following the rhythm of the music. But she is not just the only one who can show that kind of talent by the use of sand. Because there are some who can also perform that talent, like Joseph the sand artist he is better than Kseniya. Because most of the time he used music that all of the people can relate, unlike Kseniya her music only Ukrainian can relate and understand it.She should use English language so that everyone can relate to her performance. It’s true that her background music is not in English, but just by watching her performance without music you can relate and understand it and she is the first female sand artist that I watched.
Artist is an artist we all have different gifts from God there is no better artist than him, don’t compare the artists because they are all good on their own way.
# 6 – Cabillo
Sand artist KseniyaSimonova, was really great in making a ‘sand drawing’, she was really amazing while performing it in that particular show. She puts herself in that show that’s why she performs it very well and with emotion. She started it by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene was destroyed. The war had started and the fighters were fighting. It was replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then the baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into confusion from which a young woman’s face appears. The place was really dark and messy; many people are crying asking for help.She quickly becomes an old woman whose husband has died holding an envelope, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside the window, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye. The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million. That show touched the heart of every person who watched it.
# 7 – Dumalagan
The video is all about the history of Ukraine. Kseniya Simonova showed a history by using a sand animation to the audience. She was professional and talented to animate their history. She was also had a several actions on how she portray or how she show an expression in every detail of the history. The judges cried of her presentation because it was their history. Kseniya Simonova portrayed professionally and with focus. There was soldiers who attacked their country, how they had faith with God, how their family separated because of the war. Kseniya Simonova animated well on how the people before in Ukraine much suffered while they with the soldiers who attacked them. It showed also on the video on how their country destroyed by the world war.
The performance showed the history of Ukraine. Maybe the people of Ukraine suffered more because of the war but they did not surrendered because they have God who always guide and loved them.
The video is full of hatred. It should be have happiness and little sad but her performance are most sad because of the experiences of their people.
The performance of Kseniya Simonova is for the country who suffered world war. The video showed how they suffered. Kseniya chose the history because she wanted to show to the audience what happened before of their country.
# 8 – Umil
It is my second time to watch this kind of performance and they were both a reality TV show wherein the contestants are competing who would have the best and unique performance among all the candidates. Telling a story by art-sand performance is such exceptional talents especially that the audiences were able to feel the story and could even break their heart and made them cries. Simonova won the contest because of that superb talent; she performed differently compared to other contestants. She deserves to win because of her amazing performance and the people give her standing ovation after and during her performance.
The art-sand performance is about the World War 2 in which Kseniya Simonova begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene was cleared out. It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears. She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye, from that scene the audiences as well as the judges cried. That scene also shows how the ordinary people during World War II were treated.
While watching the performance of KSENIYA SIMONOVA I had also felt the sadness that the audiences had. It is like the performer was very professional of what she is doing. Maybe there’s a lot of reasons why the audiences and even the judges of the show cried, it is not only how Ksineya performed why people are overwhelmed and cried but it is also about what is Ksineya performing all about, the story of a couple who parted their ways because of the World War II, the audiences could also relate with the performance because this is clearly about the Russian attack on Ukraine and civilized world. The WWII is part of our history that all generations of people could able to relate on it, and it’s heard in real time, as the situation evolves. The world today is hugely different from what it was. The WWII has a big connection and one of the reason why people of the different countries are embracing freedom specially the Ukraine, that’s why people were very affected with Ksineya’s performance about the story of WWII and another factor is that it focuses on the love story rather than other stories during WWII, love story is another thing that people would love to watched that’s why Ksineya hooked the attention of all the audiences as well as the judges.
Over all the performance is terribly unique and Ksineya Simonova deserves to win in the contest.Miss Simonova made the audiences reminisced about what happened during World War II and maybe the people became overwhelmed and leads them to cry and give their sympathy to the performer especially that she just joined the contest to help a child who needs an operation.No doubt that Simonova is truly the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent.
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