great stuff by all the girls, guys, teachers, mr. kit on the awesome lights and many ppl who helped out in their many ways.
it's really all about the heart man.
for this morng/afternoon, had suans' birthday brunch at Symmetry!
what a good atas breakfast.
because of #instagram, i've always craved for breakfasty eggs like such. and today...i had my first atas breakfast! (: was good coz its been too long since i've met up with him. he and all his stupid gadgets. ok. not stupid. but too cool gadgetsthatyouwontuseinSingapore. for eg. when i was ransacking his 'survival kit', it even had a 'Sharpie' black marker pen in it. that's actually Boeing's recommended pen for writing one structural composite surface when doing repairs. ahhas.. yea. and a powerful torchlight, and a very thick pocketknife. hahas.
and sooo, with a very satisfied stomach, it was off to UCC.
last min preps. makeup. powder. glitter. butterflies. cameras. taps. music. everything.
when u see the ppl started streaming in, time starts to run.
once the curtains were up and shown was on, it was go go go from there.
and soon enough, it was my item.
Moves Like a Jagger.
hahas.
taken during the rehearsal.
for the opening, (the no-music part, only just tapping with everyone's rhythm) it was very evil-ly fast. hahahs. during practices, we kept emphasizing not to speed up. during rehearsal, was good. but today during the finale performace, ahhas... i think the other grades were nervous so they kept speeding up.
damn fast. hahahas. but ok la. hahas.
i made 2 mistakes. ahhas. couldn't hear the music from the monitors at some point of time. couldn't really get that feel i had during the last studio rehersal. but the atmosphere was good though. i know i gave my best. it felt intermittently awesome as i was holding back 50-50 abit.
anyways.
it was a blast.
no quickchange this yr.
but i still had my fun.
(:
this yr's recital's was more heart-felt for me.
as i watched the ballet piece (that i was supposed to do) by the side of the curtains, i can only watch with envy, mentally picturing myself on stage flying in grande jetes, under stage lightings with that flowing skirt.
the dance by ms shanti was excellent and the african remake of 'paradise' by coldplay totally complemented it. 1,000 regrets when i didn't manage to capture the 4 girls doing the fouette pirouettes
turns on the outro of the song on my video. it was too beautiful that it gave me the goosebumps. really.
i also liked her lyrical jazz piece and ms doris' asian-ish ballet item which totally has that SYF gold feeling. ahhas. so much artistic value in it. i hope the dvd-video guy is smart enough to know when to zoom in/out when he's doing his recordings.
next 2 yrs, i'll be back man. i should attempt to go back into Ballet at least early next year.. and maybe try out some lyrical jazz/ jazz classes. HAHAS. #soinspired.
most of the girls really improved alot. i watched them from zero background to being such a fine dancer on stage. really nice. (:
the massive quickchange this yr.
hhahas. lookin' likka runway kinda thing.
the exclusive salsa dance by karen, the hot latin-fitness teacher and her partner was just.... WOWs.
and the ballet-ish + hiphopper contemporary dance couple (lookin likka scene from Step Up) to the song 'Marry Me' was so so beautiful. so much heartshapes flying all over the stage. its probably such dances that make those girls join ballet. hahas. but i must admit, i have thought of wanting to be that girl sometimes. but yes, reality-check, not that graceful after all. ahhahahs. i can probably play the guy part.
and well, that's what each performace do - they bring out the best in you.
secretly happy to receive a flower today.
perhaps it brings much joy to that alter ego of mine. hahas.
always thought that flowers are pointless though they're pretty things.
as i couldn't get tickets for mother poon this yr as well as for ulrica and the girls, i felt it.
i thought it was ok. and in fact, i didn't really like ppl watching me dance. hahas. its a since-young thing. but finally this yr, when i didn't had my closer ppl with me in the audience, i felt the difference.
i guess every performer would definitely want their hardwork to pay off in some personal sense.
i dedicated my performance to God tonight. and He's probably happy that nonetheless, i still gave my all.
taking care of the kids also did left some heartfelt quivers in me.
before gg into backstage, u can see all the parents so eager and excited. making sure that their kids' makeup were perfect, everything was in place, photos here and there. and once the kids did their thing on stage and into the intermission, as they run out of backstage into the arms of their oh-so-proud parents, it was really very heart warming. all the hugs and all.
i know mother poon will nv do that to me since young though i know she's secretly very proud that her girl dances. hahas.
idk. but lots of thoughts tonight.
hence, my post seems choppy and out of the place.
had lots of those moments in time at backstage.
lots of time to think and reflect in the midst of all the hustle and bustle.
sometimes we long for that need because we know that there's a supply for it right.
without knowledge of a presence of such a supply, we probably wont have that eventual desperate need.
bah! so much joy that i wanna share with my friends tonight.
but all i should and could do was to ride that long cold stretch home in which i thought of deviating my route home a little. quite proud of myself that i didn't.
with the rain slowly falling onto my skin, and as the droplets got bigger, i was really glad to be under my void-deck soon enough. dont want to be drenched to give in to the relentless night and make myself more vulnerable right. hahas.
but i did feel that tinge of loneliness as i looked at those places we once shared.
anyways, move on. i've still got 830am school tmr.
so throughout these 2 days. it was all about dancedancedance.
seen the strength of the girls.
perception twitched abit.
i think the strength of girls and especially those who dances are really beyond what we may think it is.
dancers seem all pretty, elegant, neat and all. but within them, its really much more strength that we can ever fathom. every girl needs to push themselves to strive for perfection. all that months of trng for just tat 3-4mins on stage for each dance. no matter how physically or mentally drained, when u're on stage, u're an even stronger person. even when u dance till ur toes are screaming with pain, your face still shines like a star. really, there's so much loop holes to fall into. but just like a ballerina, she can gracefully leap through difficulties and make it look easypeasynoworries.
its pretty much different for women rugby players.
beneath those tough rugby muscles covered with battle scars, their hearts may not tally with their physical strength.
idk but maybecause, everything's in relation.
our masks are for show. but generally, what's inside always shines through. other hearts may just sense it and though there's no obvious confirmation, they just know it with such conviction.
ok. i can really go on with what i've learnt today.
but its 3:11am now. needa sleep for tmr!
meet the very artistic ppl of Dance Arts. (plus mr. Kit who's somewhere behind doing the lightning very professionally)
meet aunty Jill.
the name that i've been calling for for almost 20 yrs.
she's the one who made everything possible. also aka. the boss.
and she's the one who watch us little ballerinas in pink tutus grow up from a size 1 ballet shoe to wearing pointe shoes now. so much heart and persevered passion to keep it all going. from the logistics to the costumes to everything.
meet ms susan.
my one and only tap teacher forever. been doing tap for about 16 yrs now.
one of the coolest persons i've met in my life. cool rhythm to life and used to be a latin/ballroom/thosekind dancer or smth.
i think in 16 yrs of wkly classes, i may not have seen her ever wore the same thing twice. funky fashion style.
meet ms shanti.
ahhas. what can i say. my ballet teacher for almost 4 yrs. love her sense of musicality and artistic visual staging vision. so much love in this fine lady. though i'm currently not doing ballet, she hasn't given up on me. ahhas. looking forward to go back into her class soon!
idk but dance is subconsciously a big part of me. have experienced a phase of my life w/o it due to other commitments and injury... though i did not have that dying passion to make me feel damn sad, but w/o it, my life felt so empty; a void that nothing can really replace.
the ppl in the dance circle is very much different from those in the sports scene. to each its own, and from all whom i've learnt from so much from into becoming who i am today. thank God for allowing our paths to cross. thank u for all the friendship sharing a common interest in which we can just do together in tune.
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