Day 35 - October 18th 2013 - (By Denice M.Solberg)

Day 35 - October 18th 2013 - (By Denice M.Solberg)

So I’m gonna try and wrap up this first week with Miss Andye J, in todays blog entry. 

That is a woman that really knows what she is doing. 

She has been manipulating our dancing skills and knowledge all week trying to make us understand what musicality and dynamics are really about. 

It has been the most frustrating week so far, but this being the last day of the week I can honestly say that all the frustration and hard work is starting to pay off. 

Little by little of course, but for some of us the light bulbs are starting to blink. 

Andye told us in the Q&A yesterday that she likes to imagine her students with switched off light bulbs over their heads when she steps into class, and her goal is to make the light bulbs light during class.

We started off the day with repeating all the choreos we have learned so far. 

She did her test rounds and made us answer what, where, how and when the moves were put to the music, we almost passed all the tests. 

I honestly got stuck not knowing the answer sometimes tho.. 

I’ve now learned that it is a very good thing to know the musicality by heart, cause it will make it easier to work deeper with dynamics. 

So yeah, lesson learned.

We learned a new choreo today that had a lot of focus on both things we have been going through this week, musicality and dynamics. 

I wanna say that Mantas got picked out to do a solo and he killed it. 

I was so proud I literally jumped up while watching him dance. 

His light bulb was so bright, haha. 

I am so happy Andye gave him his time to shine, he really deserved it! 

Tonight we had a dinner party at our place “Malmö Shore” ! 

It was very nice and everybody was there. 

I hope we can do more stuff like this in the future too. 

I think it is very healthy for the group spirit to do something nice together outside of school too.

We have one more week with Andye before we have our first break. 

I am going back to Norway and I can’t wait to see my family and friends again! 

But first we are gonna get are butts whopped by the queen Miss Andye J, and I can’t wait! 

Space, performance and solo is on the list for the week!

Denice Miriam Solberg