JUMP AND WAVE
YOUR HANDS AROUND
as if you've just had a muscle spasm.
JUMP AND WAVE
YOUR HANDS AROUND
as if you've just had a muscle spasm.
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AND THOSE WHO WERE
SEEN DANCING
were thought to be
insane by those who could not
hear the music.
AND THOSE WHO WERE
SEEN DANCING
were thought to be
insane by those who could not
hear the music.
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STIFLING AN URGE TO
DANCE IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
it rusts your spirits and your hips.
STIFLING AN URGE TO
DANCE IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
it rusts your spirits and your hips.
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LIGHT QUIRKS OF MUSIC,
BROKEN AND UNEVEN
make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
LIGHT QUIRKS OF MUSIC,
BROKEN AND UNEVEN
make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 8:40 PM
WHEN YOU REMINISCE AND YOU MISS THOSE TIMES...1. MALAY DANCE
i entered through DSA(surprisingly cos my standard is like ._.) and the 4 dsa-ed got to perform in the first qingchun in 2007. me, suiying, karen and luorong, malay dance. i think i still remember the laughter from the audience when the music starts and us entering the stage with the coconuts. at that time, we were all like, "it's damn embarassing lah!" "it's damn stupid lah!". cos we were only year 1s. and i remembered when i saw luorong and karen did splits me and suiying went like OMG and starts zibei-ing already. 2. BAISHOUthis dance is the dance that i have the deepest impression on. it's, how to say. our first ever dance as a whole wudao. and baishou is a dance that means alot to us, especially the year 3s.i remember, me and qiurui were the only year 3s who were not chosen for the dance, and we were really sad. but after afew performances we were included too. this dance has gotten us alot of memories, really alot alot, can't be forgotten for life. 3. QICAI
qicai was also a very special dance. it was performed during kaleidoscope and it's the finale. to me, it was a very important performance but i couldn't perform for it cos i missed the last rehearsal when my grandfather passed away. i'm really looking forward to next year's but it'll probably be the next syf item or something. but i really hope i can get to perform for kaleidoscope. qicai was my dream dance, cos of the ribbons. that dance really taught me that hard work is really the crux. dongzuos are meant to be perfected, not luan luan get over and done with it. when i was first scolded i didn't understand. but after a while later i realised that we must really be positive. get over the scoldings and work harder. it's not just your problem cos you'll affect the whole dance. 4. TEACHER'S DAY DANCE this dance only has got less than 20 people. back during those times when liangls dances were auditioned. the year 3s were all damn stressful during that time, cos nobody wants to be left out. this really spurred us, we really worked hard and all kept looking forward to the next chance, the next chance. so the juniors, you all are really very fortunate. you get to dance in most dances without a limited number of dancers. this performance was one of the performances i liked the most. although everyone was like "i screwed up my part lah", but the audiences were really good.5. CHINESE NEW YEAR DANCEthis dance was, one of the worst performances. actually, it was our best that we put up on stage this year. it was the best in all our practices. but i think that the audiences did not really like it, and i remember i posted a post telling the audiences that they never know of the hard work we need to put in just for that few minutes which little bothered to clap. i remembered when it ended, me and valerie almost cried. while it means alot to us it actually means very very little to the audiences. 6. FEITIAN
the old feitian was also another very memorable dance. it was during this dance that i did something, and after realising my mistake, my attitude kind of took a change. i learnt that everything starts small. it's really true that in wangls' dance you move from the back to the front. you have to put in effort to prove yourself, and learn to take criticises or scoldings cos it will do you good. just bear in mind that no words are directly meant to hurt you, they are to help you. seriously, if you really have a heck care attitude, people can just leave you alone. but in wudao we choose to help. juniors after our batch really have quite good jibengong, so just work hard and stay positive. do you know that year 3s don't take lunch before wudao? no one ever really walks from the canteen back to the hall or dance studio nowadays. we always eat during recesses or lunch breaks. and we try to be as early as possible cos we want to stretch and stuff. but we were all like the juniors too last time, so i believe all of you will really become very diligent cos we also took time to learn. 7. DUNHUANGMENGHUAN new feitian was our syf this year. i can say that this dance is the most meaningful dance to us. it's a completely new style and at first we were all very unfairylike. but it's after months and months of diao-ing and self youtubing that we start to have the feel of it. it's not something we can show just by jiqiaos and biaoqings. we must have the feeling too. through this dance, we bonded alot. it's abit of like from 0 to 100. from we don't even know feitian style exists to us creating our own poses. from our plastic biaoqings to our liang4 chu1 qu4 yan shen. from our unflexible yaos to all the zhuahoutuis and qianfans and san dao wans. from our senior-junior relationship to something closer. from year 1s - year 4s to a whole wudao group, helping one another regardless of age. from 30+ hearts to 1 heart on the ucc stage. from nothing to a whole PAC of clapping and cheering audiences who finally recognises cs dance. it's really a learning process nobody except us knows. summing all these up makes me reflect on what i have been doing these 3 years, and i realise that i've improved, but not enough. i have to work harder, really. this is a sudden rush of emotions, and my fear of the coming xieren. when we used to awe at huodezange, will the juniors think the same of our dunhuangmenghuan? will the future juniors do the same for the next syf too? wudao has really changed my life. if only we could stay in wudao forever. as much as we think our seniors have been great, we hope to be great seniors too. anyway, the point is just that wudao means alot to all of us. i love wudao! saying thanks to so many people out there who have once helped me, stepped on my leg when i couldn't do a split yet, pushed my leg until it hurts like mad, cracked my back, diao-ed my dongzuos and scolded me or anything. a million thanks. i'll never regret joining wudao. dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
they who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. how true. look at our results.
dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
yeah i'm sure some people does this. i do datiaos and ti tuis in my living room. and rachel does her limited number of chuanfanshens at home. light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips. it rusts our hips! actually this isn't even half the post. but it's getting lengthy so i'll separate it. yeah this is the ultra post.
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DANCING
is the poetry of the feet.
DANCING
is the poetry of the feet.
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LOVE IS A LOT
LIKE DANCING
you just surrender to the music.
LOVE IS A LOT
LIKE DANCING
you just surrender to the music.
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