Malaysia's First Dance Magazine! =D
Ignore the photobucket pop outs. I can't edit those, and as annoying as it is, I hope you guys'll bear with it =.=
As I was getting my usual morning egg sandwich and coffee in my college's cafeteria ( I don't have breakfast at home =P), I saw this on the counter;
And, as far as I know, Malaysia has no official dance magazine that I've ever heard of...'till now! =D
They even put up an article about the performances by Les Ballets Grandiva 2 months ago. Argh, still regretting over not being able to watch it.
Dancesport competitors battling for top accolades in the Standard Ballroom and Latin categories;
There's an interesting article that really caught my interest. An interview with the Royal Danish Ballet artistic director and principle dancer Nikolaj Hubbe revealed his thoughts on today's dancer and his upbringing. Turns out back then, his parents didn't approve of him getting into performing arts =O
Instead of having the typical theater people that most dancers have as parents, he was raised in a rather modest household. His father was a doctor, and his mother was a teacher, something way different from the world of Ballet.
Q.Then you asked your parents if you could get into the school?
Hubbe: Yes.
Q.And they said yes.
Hubbe: No. They said no. (laughing)
Q.They said no?!
Hubbe: Yes, and then finally at age nine, I started taking ballet school outside. And the teacher took me (to the audition at the Royal Danish Ballet School) under the radar, and without my parents' knowledge of inevitable. And she was the one who said to them, "He has to dance. This is it. You don't know. He has to dance. This is what he wants. This is what he should do, and you don't get it." And it was not that they did not take me to operas, ballets, and plays. We were well cultured. The thing was the academiceducation, they were afraid that it wasn't good enough, and if I failed, then what? And what if you were thrown out of the exam system? That was it. It was not that they had anything against the job of a dancer or an actor; it wasn't anything like that. It was the art form as much as it was about the scholastic education.
=) I don't know, but it feels good to have the notion that not all great dancers come from artistic parents. Some just have the genuine flare for it. Did I mention he's HOT? XD
Hamstring pull care =X
I am soooo happy to get a chance to read this (not that I can't get information about this off the internet. Believe me I did), but these are some hard facts to convince otherwise. My front splits are greatly improving =) All I have to do now is attempt the side split.
Apart from classical dances, there's also tons of posts on modern dances. These are 2 random pages from the mag;
Now, before this I only managed to get 2 dance magazines from the bookstore, DANCE from the States. But they're old issues that're 10 months past, and I could never get the newest =/
Tomorrow is the day when our June intake will get a chance to submit and join the various clubs that're in Taylors. I'm planning on joining Taylor's Dance Club, Health Club and probably the PreMed society. They also have an Anime Club there that looks reeeeeeeally tempting for an otaku like me (ex otaku....I don't think I deserve that title anymore though =.=").
Stole this picture from our Chem practical. Look at all the pretty colours we made~ Ask me again how its done and I'll tell you just 40% from it ( ")
Ok, I swear, tonight will be the night when I'll study and actually get what I'm reading o.O My method of study last time during SPM was to wear a head band with the Japanese kanji "Harakiri" (suicide) and using the "Study or Die tactics" I adopted from Ranma 1/2. I'd studied from 7pm to 1am and wake up at 4am the next morning for Biology revision =.= ah yes~ I was in a different world those days~
As I was getting my usual morning egg sandwich and coffee in my college's cafeteria ( I don't have breakfast at home =P), I saw this on the counter;
And, as far as I know, Malaysia has no official dance magazine that I've ever heard of...'till now! =D
They even put up an article about the performances by Les Ballets Grandiva 2 months ago. Argh, still regretting over not being able to watch it.
Dancesport competitors battling for top accolades in the Standard Ballroom and Latin categories;
There's an interesting article that really caught my interest. An interview with the Royal Danish Ballet artistic director and principle dancer Nikolaj Hubbe revealed his thoughts on today's dancer and his upbringing. Turns out back then, his parents didn't approve of him getting into performing arts =O
Instead of having the typical theater people that most dancers have as parents, he was raised in a rather modest household. His father was a doctor, and his mother was a teacher, something way different from the world of Ballet.
Q.Then you asked your parents if you could get into the school?
Hubbe: Yes.
Q.And they said yes.
Hubbe: No. They said no. (laughing)
Q.They said no?!
Hubbe: Yes, and then finally at age nine, I started taking ballet school outside. And the teacher took me (to the audition at the Royal Danish Ballet School) under the radar, and without my parents' knowledge of inevitable. And she was the one who said to them, "He has to dance. This is it. You don't know. He has to dance. This is what he wants. This is what he should do, and you don't get it." And it was not that they did not take me to operas, ballets, and plays. We were well cultured. The thing was the academiceducation, they were afraid that it wasn't good enough, and if I failed, then what? And what if you were thrown out of the exam system? That was it. It was not that they had anything against the job of a dancer or an actor; it wasn't anything like that. It was the art form as much as it was about the scholastic education.
=) I don't know, but it feels good to have the notion that not all great dancers come from artistic parents. Some just have the genuine flare for it. Did I mention he's HOT? XD
Hamstring pull care =X
I am soooo happy to get a chance to read this (not that I can't get information about this off the internet. Believe me I did), but these are some hard facts to convince otherwise. My front splits are greatly improving =) All I have to do now is attempt the side split.
Apart from classical dances, there's also tons of posts on modern dances. These are 2 random pages from the mag;
Now, before this I only managed to get 2 dance magazines from the bookstore, DANCE from the States. But they're old issues that're 10 months past, and I could never get the newest =/
Tomorrow is the day when our June intake will get a chance to submit and join the various clubs that're in Taylors. I'm planning on joining Taylor's Dance Club, Health Club and probably the PreMed society. They also have an Anime Club there that looks reeeeeeeally tempting for an otaku like me (ex otaku....I don't think I deserve that title anymore though =.=").
Stole this picture from our Chem practical. Look at all the pretty colours we made~ Ask me again how its done and I'll tell you just 40% from it ( ")
Ok, I swear, tonight will be the night when I'll study and actually get what I'm reading o.O My method of study last time during SPM was to wear a head band with the Japanese kanji "Harakiri" (suicide) and using the "Study or Die tactics" I adopted from Ranma 1/2. I'd studied from 7pm to 1am and wake up at 4am the next morning for Biology revision =.= ah yes~ I was in a different world those days~