before 6 weeks, before foa
With slipping of only 15 hours away, I think its due time to write a post, about dance, juniors and FOA.
It's a funny sense of responsibility I feel towards dance venia, for whatever reason, the CCA had been very important to me. Today is FOA, but I would not have a chance to see it, alike the few times in my life when we just have to miss chances and opportunities due to other responsibilities at hand. Looking back as someone who had done this before, I really hoped to help as much as I did for this all important showcase.
Relive the moment when I was a year 6 going through FOA. Weeks of practice zoom by at light speed and without knowing, it is FOA. And as time spares no man, it's all over. The nostalgia, loss, and sadness I feel when walking back from the dance studio through astroturf, to the bus stop (not holland V), and waking up the next day, is extremely heavy. It is like being a guide since I had been there before, what could I do other than imparting my 2 cents worth?
Dance is a the form of art when the performer is never allowed to show the pain he or she is going through, or to expose even a little bit of weakness in mastery, and yet run the ever present chance of not being appreciated by the audience. It is the art form which is always under-emphasized, overlooked, and ignored. But like it or not, it is the expression, an amalgam of human's hardwired ability to think and feel, longing to express, and tendency to move. No one hates the art of dance, because all of us are involved in it in one way or another. With that being said, what is the significance of dance? It is that it is the international language which requires no dictionary to interpret. It is that it's a cross-cultural language which does not exonerate any one of his abilities to learn this art form. It is the device which can bring down all barriers between man, the social lubricant, the ice breaker.
I hope for all those guys and girls who are doing it this year in the CPA, to do it with all their hearts dedicated to it, no matter how simple, easy, technical the steps are. For those year 5s, an experience which we year 7s never had. For the year 6s, it's about time for them to feel the same as their seniors. What I had learnt through dance is that it is not so much as to how damn good you are, but the pride which pervades from the eyes and the heart of the dancer which makes it special for him and the audience. So for all who are to perform, let that happiness, presence, pride, enjoyment beam from your eyes as you take the centerstage, and focus not on the steps, but on the joy and prestige of dance.
Why the hell does it look like I am philosophizing about dance? It's because it took me a long time to be able to grasp the complexity of this art form. My complicated and varied adventures with dance taught me so much, and as students, we always continue to learn.
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embarkation
6 weeks of deployment will definitely be, not that close to 1 BMT. In fact 66% of 1x BMT.
Looking forward to it, challenges that will come my way.
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