i love dancing as much as i love music, watching people dance amazes me especialy street dancing. though cultural dances are ok also, i appreciate them as much as i would modern dances, its just that i get very bored with cultural dances maybe because of the repetitive movements and unatractive music, i just really dont enjoy watching these kind of dances.

maybe because street dances reflect more of my personality, the rythm and fast paced music the power moves that really would move the viewers, even the steps, although all of their moves are different they somehow blend together to showcase a really good performance. like me i dont like unchanging and redudundant things, for me unchanging things are boring things. i am also a very jolly person so maybe thats why the upbeat music of street dancing appeals to me so much.

i was disapointed with the show in william shaw thater, they could've showed more street dancing and explained more about it. the cultural dances could also use some more practice and more props, the dances could've turned out better especially with their kind of talent. but with this kid of perforance my love for dance didnt really go away. and watching their performance only made me realize how many cultural dances really are and if these dances were not to be passed down to the next generation of kids, all of these dances will all be wiped out, 1 or 2 generations from now.

it was a wednesday afternoon around 1pm, i was kinda excited because
i am the kind of person that loves music so much. may it be rock, classical, pop, OPM etc. i listen to them all. though right now i am crrently digging rock music i still also havent lost my heart for classical music.

i grew up with music, my father would always listen to some ballads and jazz music while i was small, on the other hand, my mom's side is a family of pianists so during my childhood music was already a really big part of me.

so unlike some of the students who was required to watch the performance i was pretty excited to view the performance. when i got there i sat up front, not just because there were no more seats available at the back but also because i wanted to see the instruments up close as close as i could get so that i could see how the musician would play the violin or how he would pluck his guitar.

all of the songs that they played was all very familiar to me, but amongst all of them my favorite is beethoven. i listend to their lecture as they showed how bad it was to the ears if one of the instruments were not tuned properly and if some musicians werent playing the same melody and on how it was so important for their instruments sounds to blend together so they would create wonderful music together. watching them also made me realize that teamwork is really important and that even though some of them were good musicians alone, they understood that together they can create something even better.

towards the end of the performance there was an open forum,where in they opened the floor for questions. for a short while no one was asking anything, until i saw my prof. stood up and asked a question that was really interesting. the question was something like, "boom tarat tarat is also repetitive, how is it any different from classical music in terms of repetitiveness?" something like that. one of them answered that the main difference is that boom tarat tarat although repetitive has only one tempo and it would not change, compared to classical music, classical music has various tempo's that would corresspond to the emotion being portrayed, like slowing it all down to portray sadness or speeding things up for happiness. his answer was sound and at first i thought it was something hard to answer.
after the show i walked away with a greater understanding of classical music, though i expected it to be longer. i hope that the succeding shows would be longer featuring more music for everyone to enjoy,and i ca definitely say that all of that was all worth my 80 pesos!

we had a film viewing about cinema paradiso, the movie is about a father and son relationship between the main character salvatore "toto" and alfredo. the movie practically revolved around the two characters it was about the passion of toto for film, for movies that he would always got to alfredos projection room even though he knows he'll get in trouble. at first alfredo and toto werent in good terms but in the end they were like father and son, filing each others emptiness. sometimes our lives tend to become like movies. its as if our lives are lived like we are the leading person in our very own life's movie. at first i thought cinema paradiso woul be very boring but in the end, i found it very entertaining and the story was simple but nice and it had alot of deep meanings.

Hellow blog! i will now write on you.. tonight i will talk about my first week in art appreciation class.
the first time i set foot on our classroom well the first feeling i had was i got shocked with the way our prof looked like, well its not because of what she's wearing or anything else but she was kinda young, i dont think its such a shocking thing but maybe because i was expecting an old man or woman to be our prof for a subject like this. well our prof. is cool cause she's young and i think she could relate well with students our age because the generation gap is not that far anyway. so i think she teaches well i mean i loved the way she would show us puzzles or brain benders or whatever you call them. i think the purpose of this is that the subject is very early and with those things i think she wants to wake up our minds or get it ready for the learnings ahead. we also had this first presentation where we would bring an artwork and why it was art for us. some brought drawings of themselves or pictures made by their friends for them some brought small scale sculptures as example. i many kinds of art was brought from photo mosaics to photographs even our professors face and a simple sheet of yellow pad was brought in as art.
for the past week we've been trying to come up with what art really means or the very definition of art. but i dont think we got the definition of what art really is but we've been learning what makes art art or what characteristics art should poses for it to be art and things like that. and for our last meeting our prof. showed us a comic strip, at first i thought it was just a simple comic strip but then after awhile she showed us lots of ways in telling a story she even showed us the book. i had fun looking at how many ways one can tell a story it was soo good. ok now im actualy looking forward to my next artapre class, it isnt soo bad after all actualy i was having fun.