...a wonderful 4 months

  Early bird again. I arrived at around 4:50 yesterday afternoon. The props from the other day's show had already been cleared and replaced with tables and chairs for the little kids in Ballet 1.

  While fixing my stuff Ate Delphine poked her head through the door way of the dressing room to say bye. I was the only one there and I said goodbye too. She, Ate Georgette, Ate Gaye, and Teacher Agnes left for Manila to stage Puno at the PETA-Phinma Theater.

  I didn't notice the picture on the mirror until later;

And the note...

  It was the fuss of the dressing room when my classmates arrived...

  Ate Delphine, 

You were a great theater teacher and I really enjoyed your classes. 

Hope you can come back next year to teach again! 

Thank you for the wonderful 4 months ^_^

XOXOX

... falling into place

My sister's Chucks.

  I missed voice class yesterday. Ashley had Violin lessons at home and we didn't pay much attention to the time while chatting with her teacher... At least I wasn't late for Tap. There were some new steps, which makes me a little unsure about stopping for a month...


  Ate Delphine came into Tap a little while through the beginning. I was both surprised and happy to see her. 

  {Serendipity again!}

  I told her about my going to Manila for the Hip Hop Shakespeare Workshop and we started talking about theater :) 


  Every thing seems to be falling into place!


  I really love theater. Maybe I should concentrate on that instead... 


  A lot of dancers who are in Broadway are saying that voice lessons are useful. Guess I'm on the right track...


  I'm really happy I went to the workshop... New doors open :)


  Saw another poster of Encantada outside the Philippine Women's College.

Missing PETA :'(

With Kitsi and Sol... planning what to do with A Midsummer Night's Dream

  

PETA posted pics of the workshop already! 

{Click Here} 

I miss PETA 

:'(

Nostalgia started yesterday morning. In the bathroom, of all places...

Hope the peepz I met in the

wonderful, wonderful workshop

keep me posted 

^_^

#TheaterWorkshops

♥

PETA Website:

http://petatheater.com/

Dance Again

  I woke up this morning with an aching body. I've probably said that hundreds of times before but it's the truth, you know? I think I did pretty good in glass yesterday. I was just a bit lazy on the barre and I couldn't get one combination :( But I was proud of my Pas de basque. OK, new fave step! 


  My back did not hurt at all the entire class and I was still able to do a more than 90 degrees arabesque. Wooohooo! Yeah! Not-so-good news: The dreaded Cambre on releve is back -_- Need to strengthen my releve... Teacher Agnes suggested that the Ballet 3 class attend Ballet 2 to strengthen the little things like articulation and turn out {arches for me}. 


  A new work is going to be staged at Locsin's soon. The third part to the Alay sa Puno series: 

PUNO: Pangatlong Galaw. 

    

  It's so cool that my teacher's work going is to be stage at PETA, when I just came from there! I just find it so serendipitous... 

Brunch at UP DIliman

    Before heading to PETA for the workshop the other day, Lola Bengay, with whom we stayed with for the duration of the workshop, took us around the UP Diliman campus. There's this jinx going around the school that if you take a photo with the Oblation {the statue} before you graduate, you wont graduate in time...

  BUT! Since, Lola Bengay and Mom said, I havn't enrolled yet {and am not even in collage} the jinx does not apply :P



  UP is the largest campus I have ever been to. When I visited the Ateneo Collage here in Davao, I was already awed but, goodness! UP Diliman has a highway!!! #FirstTime ^_^ LoL. Another interesting thing that Mom couldn't get over with was the jeep. Instead of street names on their routes, there were the names of the buildings in the campus :) The one we rode passed by the Math and Registrar building and something else too that I forgot...

Going around UP Campus in a jeep with Lola Bengay.

  We ate 'student food' brunch at Rodic's. I quit my no pork diet :P

Last Day of Workshop

Last Day of Workshop

  Came home from Manila this morning. The performance last night went smoothly except for my mistake with one of my entrances and a delay with the lights and music.

  We were divided into five groups and each were asked to create a play {or something} loosely based  on A Midsummer Night's Dream. My group's was the longest performance. We included singing, a little dancing, and of course rap as well as spoken dialogue in our presentation.

  Before all our performances started, though, Akala asked the audience to participate in a game of 'Shakespeare'. He'd recite a line and the audience would vote if it was from a Rap/ Hip Hop song or from one of Shakespeare's works {This was an exercise of ours during the workshop, only we would have to perform the lines}. He also performed a rap of one of Shakespeare's Sonnets {The one that begins with Shall I compare thee to a summer's day}.

Here, Akala talks about The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, plays the 'Shakespeare' game, and raps Sonnet 18.

  Ballet Tomorrow...