So school ends April 16 and then I have a month of I don't know what sprinkled with finals, which is actually more I don't know what. Until then, I have a performance called The Future of Dance to be presented the 1,2 and 3 of April. It is a very bold statement to say that this performance is the complete future of dance, but it is possibly part of it. I am in a dance called Tribute to a Legend that is for a professor who died recently. Originally this dance came from my composition class and was very much our work, by this i mean that you could clearly see each of us and our personalities in the work. At the first rehearsal the director of the show scrapped all our movements and started to re-choreograph our dance taking up everyone's time for many rehearsals. Finally in class we solidified a dance to his liking, which will get videoed and shown to all of you! I am pretty happy with it, and it opens the show. We are rehearsing for this show three hours a day everyday for three weeks, it should be good!
I am also doing two choreography projects of my own this semester that I will be graded on. My first question is, how will I have the time to create these dances-among the other rehearsals and classes I have- and my second question is how in the world do you grade art? The dances will be a group piece on my experience (a broad overview of my experience) in Ghana, and I am unsure about the solo, so if you have any ideas!
I have a final in Philosophy which could be on technology and development, or how to make Kenkey. A final in Human Rights where we have learned the same thing every time we go to class: Africa is the poorest and the richest continent, it is the most diverse with the shortest and the tallest people, human rights is a western concept projected onto Africans, and the only reason that the leaders post independence didn't lead with human rights in mind is because their colonial teachers and predecessors didn't teach them about HR. Questionable teaching... I think so!
On another note I am going to a wedding tomorrow which should be fun.
I would love to talk more and more but we are being served chilled chocolate milk and I really must get some.
will write for real on monday!
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