Interviews again
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Questions from the lovely besyd
1. You walk into a room full of eager, but nervous, new dance students. What do you really see?
Probably potential. I love teaching classes when the students are there because they want to be and are really ready to learn. Eager students with no egos and no expectations are thrilling in that I can picture where they could end up if they really applied themselves. I mean, chances are, only a few will keep dancing indefinitely, but I love thinking about it.
Every once in a while when I look at a new student I see myself. Generally it only happens when the student has the same strengths and weaknesses I did at that age (which is rare), but it has been known to occur. :)
2. Where/what is one place that you dream of dancing (a specific stage, a mountaintop in Switzerland, on the beach in Hawaii, etc)?
Most definitely The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in England. Not only because my favourite performance of all time was filmed there, (La Bayadere, with Darcey Bussel), but because there's so much history. One of my former teachers was a soloist with the Royal and she had amazing stories about the theatre and the company.
3. Who's your favorite non-fanfic author (novelist, poet, etc), and what's your favourite piece they've written?
See this is tough, because my favourite book ever is The Secret History by Donna Tartt, but I didn't think she's my favourite author because I wasn't really all that fond of another book of hers...
Favourite author overall is Joanne Harris. Favourite book by that author is Five Quarters of the Orange I read that and Chocolat *same author) for an ISU last year in English and just fell in love with them both. She has this food imagery thing that runs through all of her pieces that just works wonderfully (and makes me hungry). Sadly enough: In my seminar and thesis defence for the essay I used overheads, and the title (because I'm a dork) was: Five Quarters of the Orange & Chocolat: A Tasty Sounding Essay
4. What's the most fun thing you've done this semester?
This semester hmm.... Probably the trip I took with some girls on my floor to see LOTR. I'd seen it before and everything, but going out with all of them was really fun.
5. Have you found a new interest at university (say, a subject you hadn't taken before) that's surprised you (maybe you didn't think you'd be interested in)? If not (yet -g-), then is there something you've never studied before that you're looking forward to taking a class in?
Well, I had taken philosophy in high school, but just did it as an OAC to help my average out. I thought I'd take it again in first year just because I kinda knew what was going on and I heard the prof was great. I guess I rediscovered how cool philosophy is this year. I ended up dropping Poli Sci so I could take another Philosophy couse this semester and now I'm planning on a minor.
Questions from the lovely besyd
1. You walk into a room full of eager, but nervous, new dance students. What do you really see?
Probably potential. I love teaching classes when the students are there because they want to be and are really ready to learn. Eager students with no egos and no expectations are thrilling in that I can picture where they could end up if they really applied themselves. I mean, chances are, only a few will keep dancing indefinitely, but I love thinking about it.
Every once in a while when I look at a new student I see myself. Generally it only happens when the student has the same strengths and weaknesses I did at that age (which is rare), but it has been known to occur. :)
2. Where/what is one place that you dream of dancing (a specific stage, a mountaintop in Switzerland, on the beach in Hawaii, etc)?
Most definitely The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in England. Not only because my favourite performance of all time was filmed there, (La Bayadere, with Darcey Bussel), but because there's so much history. One of my former teachers was a soloist with the Royal and she had amazing stories about the theatre and the company.
3. Who's your favorite non-fanfic author (novelist, poet, etc), and what's your favourite piece they've written?
See this is tough, because my favourite book ever is The Secret History by Donna Tartt, but I didn't think she's my favourite author because I wasn't really all that fond of another book of hers...
Favourite author overall is Joanne Harris. Favourite book by that author is Five Quarters of the Orange I read that and Chocolat *same author) for an ISU last year in English and just fell in love with them both. She has this food imagery thing that runs through all of her pieces that just works wonderfully (and makes me hungry). Sadly enough: In my seminar and thesis defence for the essay I used overheads, and the title (because I'm a dork) was: Five Quarters of the Orange & Chocolat: A Tasty Sounding Essay
4. What's the most fun thing you've done this semester?
This semester hmm.... Probably the trip I took with some girls on my floor to see LOTR. I'd seen it before and everything, but going out with all of them was really fun.
5. Have you found a new interest at university (say, a subject you hadn't taken before) that's surprised you (maybe you didn't think you'd be interested in)? If not (yet -g-), then is there something you've never studied before that you're looking forward to taking a class in?
Well, I had taken philosophy in high school, but just did it as an OAC to help my average out. I thought I'd take it again in first year just because I kinda knew what was going on and I heard the prof was great. I guess I rediscovered how cool philosophy is this year. I ended up dropping Poli Sci so I could take another Philosophy couse this semester and now I'm planning on a minor.