It gives you nothing back...
- No manuscripts to store away
- No paintings to show on walls and may be hang in museums
- No poems to be printed and sold
Nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive!!
You have to love dancing to stick to it.
It gives you nothing back... - No manuscripts to store away - No paintings to show on walls and may be hang in museums - No poems to be printed and sold Nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive!!
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Watching a ballet performance was a dream come true...and watching Swan Lake was just beyond belief. The Russian State Ballet of Siberia Returns presented its production of Swan Lake at the New Theatre, Oxford. Swan Lake tells the enchanting tale of one day in a young aristocrat’s life, but this time he is dead by the end of it. Trapped in dull court routine, with a dynastic marriage threatened, he escapes to the wild outdoors (or possibly his inner world) and encounters swans just as they are magically turning back into girls, briefly permitted release from their evil slavemaster’s daytime tyranny. The Prince and the swans’ Queen are two fugitives, attracted to each other. But the evil genius makes the young man forget his new love by fashioning a doppelganger to seduce him into betrayal. In this story deception costs the life of the young man, his attempt to re-avow his broken love to the Swan Queen not working to set evil to rights. In both these stories: men are deceivers led by their desires, women let themselves too easily be seduced into their fantasies. The evening as a whole was magical, beautiful and exciting. 1. You choreograph in your head.
Its like once you put on your headphones, your life becomes a music video! 2. You can break into a jig just about anywhere. You just get used to the stares! 3. Arabesque while you do something. Picking up something from the floor. Getting up from the bed. 4. You know what it is to work for free. We are artists, we don't work for money......as if there is a choice. 5. Dance as a career option has at least once crossed your mind. 6. School and college have been incomplete without dance. Annual days, teachers' day, college fests, societies - taught you more than any subject. 7. You follow the reality shows and you have a favorite dancer from every season. 8. Once a dancer, always a dancer. Dance your way through life and planning how not to give it up ever...!! Nervous! Breathless! Unsure! It’s scary to think that what if I slip, what if my music stops in the middle, what if I blank out and forget my choreography! The most nerve wrecking feeling every time just a few minutes before I go on stage. I am certain I am going to give my best and also mess up a little. I pray to god that this experience of few minutes on stage becomes memorable for me and the audience. If I am able to touch even one soul with my performance, if I bring smiles on people’s faces, if I put them in awe of me - My job is done! The announcement goes and there are big butterflies in the stomach doing kart wheels, “Lets welcome on stage Ankita Bora.” My heart is beating faster than ever and with a nervous smile I step on stage and take my position. I can hear the cheer and roars in the audience who love me and adore me, giving me a lot of confidence and also putting me under pressure to live up to their expectations. Once my music starts playing all the thoughts, worries, anxiety goes away. I don’t care what happened backstage….when I have my few moments on stage I live it like I own it! I give each and every movement my all, like it’s the last time I am going to dance. Dancing up on the stage gives me so much power, it cannot be expressed in words. I never feel greater than what I do when I am performing. I am on fire and I own the stage like a queen. I tell the audience, "The stage is mine now….watch me burn it!!” Being a classical dancer I have had a taste of the 'navras' i.e. the nine emotions of dance!! After working on some other dance forms I saw navras in them too!
1. Heroism (Veera) - Martial art form of dance styles like Kallari Payattu from Kerela or Capoeira from Brazil show an act of bravery and fearlessness. 2. Fear (Bhayanaka) - A fight between the bull and the matador alarms both the parties and creates distress. Paso Doble aggressively covers the emotion of fear in its style! 3. Love (Shringara) - Ballroom styles like a soft waltz or a sensuous rumba brings out the love and compassion requiring a level of trust between the partners ultimately manifests into an unconditional love for themselves and each other. 4. Pathos (Karuna) - Mime! This is what me n AG could decide on!! The expressions are full of pathos :-( 5. Fury (Raudra) - Krumping, a street dance which is expressive, exaggerated and highly energetic and releases anger, aggression and frustration but in a positive way! 6. Wonder (Adbhuta) - With a mystical vibe, ballet is a dreamy performance leaving the spectators to wonder the meaning of the dance themselves. 7. Humour (Hasya) - Lindy Hop because its about jumping and hopping all over and just having fun!! There is lightness of life and laughter with playful movements for the performers and the audience. 8. Disgust (Bheebhatsya) - Honestly I couldn't find a dance form which can ever disgust me....so if you have something in mind then please add to this list!! 9. Tranquility (Shantha) - In my opinion, dance itself is a form of meditation. Feeling the music and moving to it gives me peace and balance, irrespective of the form of dance! |
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