Hello everyone, It's been too long since the last update I guess.... indicating my life style is just not before.... I used to do this every week, but that was when sharing my passion is not something I do too often, and now I live with passion everyday. Sound too noble, hahahaha. Ya, it's a philosophy, and it's not a lie or just an idea either.
Anyway... brief summary of what the hack have been eating my time away. Being in main campus is very fun, but at the same time it also mean a more demanding academic schedule, especially when your major needs you to take 16 credits at least each semester in order to finish your degree in 5 years... beside class and studying, I spend time in dancing, around 3 hours per week, and small group stuff. Sunday I go to church, that does take a lot of useful time away, and saturday I would sit on my bed(with my computer) wasting a lot of useful time away by calling it resting. Other than these and necessarily daily activities, I get some sleep each night. (This must be one of the most boring paragraph you've read in a long time)
I don't know how, I just listen to so much musical music lately... and I hardly know any pop songs, which is so un-college and anti-social in a way... but hey, people who don't understand musicals is because they have not experience the wonderfulness it yet. I know some songs and plays are far from rated-13, some are rated-no kids should ever watch/listen to this, and its a type of music that is so obnoxious you may say, but no other type of music can carry a story, host a character, bringing unexpected history reference within the story its telling better than showtones. My few favorite tones are: Try To Remember from Fantastiks (love that show), Children Will Listen from Into The Woods (my first anticipation in a musical production ever, which was great), Seasons of Love from Rent (classic 90's, you can't beat it, and I'm born in that era), Mama who Bored me Reprise version from Spring Awakening, and other great shows like Ragtimes, Grey Gardens, Lion King etc. This is a form of stage art that is more popular than dance already.
I've been dancing since a kid, and I don't know how do I function day to day without thinking about dancing. It is mental, yes, but very therapeutic to me. A dance sequence does not have to be like a story, doesn't have to have great meaning or deep philosophy hidden. What it is is a celebration of your movement and your sweat, and a sense of liberation. Beside that there is not much other words you can use to describe dance as a whole. Now each form of dancing is more adaptive and easy to learn than others, like hip hop is very urban, but modern is very abstract, ballet is... well from what my male friend told me a week ago, very un-interesting. (why the hack...) JUST REMEMBER DANCING IS UNISEX PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! Dancing is not just a female thing, man with a beard can do ballroom or comtempory jazz, or tap etc. etc. Gezzz, it is not gay for guys to dance. And for any future boyfriend/fiance of mine, you know that you will never be able to date me or even know me if you don't dance, and this is very true to many girls who dance.
Anyway, the major reason of bringing up dance is, I went to watch a show for my dance class and it was insanely inspiring. It was the Merce Cunningham Master Tour show, which is the last tour this dance company will ever do, after this tour is over the Merce Cunningham dance Company will cease to exist. Cunningham is the master and legend for modern dance since the 50's. He knew how dancers would like to be challenge as a dancer and he knew what the dancer can provide to the movement of flow. That was what the show was all about. Very talented dancers dancing positions harder than bare-back horse riding, or tackling a football. There was no music basically for the 1:30 hour long dance show, yet the show was cool and inspiring to watch, because you would have never thought movements can be piece together like that. It was a great show that it is sad to know this is their final tour. One of the dancers was a 69 year old man, he is the director and he can barely do some of the moves..... you know he is respected, but you don't know why. Had I not talk to people afterward I wouldn't know he's been dancing with the founder of the company who just died in 2009 since his 20's. Almost 50 years of dance memory was expressed... even he is 69. See, dancing doesn't have a limit, not until you give up.
This weekend I'll be away!!!! Going to Jubilee 2011 in Pittsburgh. It's going to be a great time.
I miss you Faye!!!!
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