pondering.....................
This week has been......good and bad and crazy and long and strenuous and this and that.
The BFA senior show, that I'm in, is tomorrow, and the piece is pretty easy...I'm not going to underestimate it, but I've done harder stuff. Its downtown moderny and it includes some acting and stuff. Its cute. The....bad part, I guess, is that it doesn't fit in with the other pieces that are in the concert. On top of that, it doesn't really show off what the dancers can do...as dancers....it gives a taste....I dunno. People at Ailey really have no love for downtown modern, and in some ways I can see why. They're not trained like that. They're not trained to release, so its like...."huh? what was that?" Performing it for the dress rehersal was....interesting. I didn't think there would be that many people in the audience, and I'm EXTREMELY internal when I get around certain people in that building.....its just a weird atmosphere. I thought UB was weird, but Ailey is ever MORE weird. I feel really bad for the students who aren't.....the mold. There are so many white students there and tho they take white people into Ailey/Ailey2, contrary to popular belief....they don't take many and many of them don't really fit in with the movement style.
I was watching Ailey 2 do a preview today in the studio and I was wondering what made them pick these particular people. Chatting with Roxie a little, she was saying how sometimes, they pick people who no one would suspect. And its like "What, where, how?" They all have different strengths and abilities, which is awesome. I think the BFA program has bought in more diverse dancers, which gives them intresting choices when it comes to picking 2nd company members.
Whatev.....Hubbard Street and HS2 has been on my mind for the past week also.
Its just been a LONG ROUGH week. And I feel like I'm losing myself, which is a hard thing for me to do, but since I feel like I'm doing it, something is up..........I need a new kind of medicine, but I dunno what it is yet....
The BFA senior show, that I'm in, is tomorrow, and the piece is pretty easy...I'm not going to underestimate it, but I've done harder stuff. Its downtown moderny and it includes some acting and stuff. Its cute. The....bad part, I guess, is that it doesn't fit in with the other pieces that are in the concert. On top of that, it doesn't really show off what the dancers can do...as dancers....it gives a taste....I dunno. People at Ailey really have no love for downtown modern, and in some ways I can see why. They're not trained like that. They're not trained to release, so its like...."huh? what was that?" Performing it for the dress rehersal was....interesting. I didn't think there would be that many people in the audience, and I'm EXTREMELY internal when I get around certain people in that building.....its just a weird atmosphere. I thought UB was weird, but Ailey is ever MORE weird. I feel really bad for the students who aren't.....the mold. There are so many white students there and tho they take white people into Ailey/Ailey2, contrary to popular belief....they don't take many and many of them don't really fit in with the movement style.
I was watching Ailey 2 do a preview today in the studio and I was wondering what made them pick these particular people. Chatting with Roxie a little, she was saying how sometimes, they pick people who no one would suspect. And its like "What, where, how?" They all have different strengths and abilities, which is awesome. I think the BFA program has bought in more diverse dancers, which gives them intresting choices when it comes to picking 2nd company members.
Whatev.....Hubbard Street and HS2 has been on my mind for the past week also.
Its just been a LONG ROUGH week. And I feel like I'm losing myself, which is a hard thing for me to do, but since I feel like I'm doing it, something is up..........I need a new kind of medicine, but I dunno what it is yet....