Dance Presentation

Being a Dance Production major we've been really analyzing dance and design on stage. The more we analyze the "in general" aspects of performance the more I analyze my own relationship with dance.

I like ballet. Let's be honest. And I also dislike modern, except for the strengthening factor, but the performing factor sucks. Ballet is all about projecting yourself to an audience: proper posture, head high, open attitude. Modern is all about your "inner self:" contractions, pulling away from the audience, hiding from reality... Or facing reality head on?

I guess I feel like getting on stage and dancing for yourself and your poverty and your sadness and how you've been wronged is all kind of.. Arrogant and selfish. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for sad choreography and performance; however, when I get in a stage and dance for an audience it is really all for them,and I feel a lot more successful in the end.

Consider it a happy, feel-good perspective but I can't stand having to be subject to people's performances where all they can they about is them.

Coding

So I've been trying out this new "Do-It-Yourself" website for coding and I love it! Absolutely love it! In fact I love it so much I've been playing around with the HTML involved in this post. I can make my words...
bold
italic

change the color

or change the size and font.

This is SO cool!

Honestly I'm really learning to appreciate the hard work it takes to make a computer's programs work.  I'm hoping that at some point I will really be able to understand all the behind the scenes computer stuff.

Its odd.  I am SO dedicated to the arts because of the emotions and feelings involved.  I love more abstract stuff.  That's "my thing."  But I'm really finding this logical stuff fascinating.  I mean, its fun to have something that you have to think deeply about in a more "number-crunching" analysis type way.

http://www.codecademy.com/#

Try it.

Alina Lauren!

Classy

Although I am an avid believer in being a classy, young lady with pastel colors adorning my room and floral arrangements at every corner I sometimes find myself channeling my energy elsewhere.  In all honesty, one can only be upstanding and proper so often.  There have to be moments of fun, excitement, and craziness!  I found this picture today...

This is me and my very, very wonderfully good friend LeeAnn Spencer.  Honestly, she is probably the person I am the most crazy with. Easily. Really there's no question in my mind.  

In a lot of ways people might think there is no way we fit together as friends and in a lot of ways they might be right.  But who's to say anybody knows what type of friends are the right friends and what type are the wrong friends.  Are there wrong friends?  I mean, I can bring out LeeAnn's classy, lady-like girly side sometimes!  Even though most of the time she brings out my.. odd, unusual, wack, "awesome" side.

I don't really know where I'm going with this.  I just found this picture and it got me thinking...

I LOVE THIS GIRL. She's the best.  And although we don't exactly see eye-to-eye 94% of the time we really get along well anyway.  And we're awesome.

I love you sister!