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December 08, 2011

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"Sometimes the Greatest Journey is the Distance Between Two People"

Kitty a naive, yet intelligent, middle class young woman is living in China. She lives in a colonial house with her family and at a dance meets clinical, astute MD bacteriologist who is on a research assignment in China. He falls instantly in love with her, knowing that she is spoiled, yet he senses something within her that has not yet had the chance to be free. Perhaps because of the constraints of her restricting environment. This leads her to dally pretentiously and mock others within the limitations that have been imposed upon her. Walter approaches Kitty and there is an awkward exchange, in which Walter asks her to marry him. Being taken aback at the sudden proposal she is not quite sure how to answer. Not yet knowing her own mind, she accepts and they live together in relative indifference to each other. They do not yet understand the unknown territory that is to be explored within themselves and between each other. Kitty, trying to stimulate conversation between th

The Tigers Come at Night, Their Voices Soft as Thunder

Being someone who usually rejects musicals for their sentimentality and superficial manufactured emotions, I was genuinely surprised by Tom Hooper`s version of Les Miserables . Having studied acting for years, I learned, in order to act, you must find the truth in the character and bring it out in each one in the audience. A test of this truth for audiences to come face to face with that emotion and discover passion De Profundis within you as well. Usually analysing emotions, I couldn`t ignore the shivers that came to me frequently and all over, as if a ghost had entered. Having such a visceral reaction to this film was completely unexpected. I sat there a little taken aback at my own reactions. Yes, Victor Hugo was writing in the 19th Century and we have to keep in mind that this was at the height of Romanticism. It was first published in 1862. This was a movement that validated strong emotion and yes, it values strong intuition over enlightenment rationalism. However, we mu

Burlesque Jazz Dance Workshops for Girls

Earlier in 2012, based on several previous workshops with Spektrum I devised a concept that would subvert stereotypes that diminish girls to objects evident in some media. The way putting this into action was by working with Griet Vanden Houden and Sara Marin, both dancer whom I´d met whilst working as a tour manager SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) through 10 Burlesque Jazz Dance workshops with Spektrum that gathered together 8 girls we subverted the unhealthy representations that are found in contemporary media by allowing the girls to be playful with their values and their own image and ridicule the media through the medium of burlesque Jazz dance. The actual original meaning of Burlesque was a device for joke and ridicule towards the oppressions from society. It comes from the Italian ‘Burla’. These workshops are close to this meaning rather than any grotesquely distorted image meaning that you see today. However, we did use the same music as Christina Aguil

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