Day 34 - October 17th 2013 (By Anton Swerkström)

Day 34 - October 17th 2013 (By Anton Swerkström)


Hey!

Here is my blog entry for today :-)

Alrighty, day 4 of this amazing week and its my turn to tell you guys whats going on in the 1YEP.

We started of the day with some music theory class with Karsten. 

I dare to say we are getting better at this and its really nice to have these classes once in a while to practice your ears. 

Since I see musicality as one of the most important aspects of being a dancer 

...So does Andye J I think...  :-) 

I always try to focus a lot when we do this.

Then back to Andye and our second day working on dynamics. 

We continued with the choreos from the day before, still with Andye on our backs the entire time. 

I think Elina described it in a good way how Andye sees what we have to work on right away and she is not afraid to point it out. 

But I can already tell it having effect though. 

Feels like people are evolving like crazy around me which just pushes me to keep up. 

Its like we were told in the beginning of this week 

“I have to break you down so you can build yourself up and stronger/better then you were before”

(not her exact words but something like that)

I still have to emphasize how kind and genuine this woman is though. 

She inspires me so much and makes me want to be a better dancer as well as a better person, and she is giving us the tools for both :-).

Today we also had our Q&A. 

Which was AMAZING, I could just sit and hear Andye talk forever. 

Every Q&A we have had has been pretty intimate (if you are thinking something dirty here you are a sick person, doesnt matter if I made you think it by writing this he he) with all of us sitting in the couch and the bean bags drinking tea and really getting to know the teachers. 

But this was on another level, like I said Andye is very kind and genuine but she is also honest, funny and very intelligent. 

I´m not gonna tell you exactly what she said because you kinda had to be there, but to sum up we had many laughs and were given a lot of advice and tips about dancing, teaching and life in general. 

I wont soon forget this :-)

Thats it for this time guys, now I have to practice the choreos we been doing this week because you never know if/when Andye is gonna say 

“Ok Anton, the Brandy song, you alone, Go!”

Cya! :-)

Anton Swerkström