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Published: 2017-08-25
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wp8qwHwM1k
I want to take a journey it's a journey that shows the benefits of the performing arts specifically downs no I was brought up in an exclusive convent boarding school London dogs were considered second parents and when this that's into they dance program at boarding school %HESITATION I wanted to I went to my father and I said to him I wanted to dance and his reaction was
no doubt north dot of man products in a row stage No Way books audiobooks that's what you're here that's what I'm at the time the headmistresses he said to me when I told her %HESITATION that's my father had said no she said to me %HESITATION what do you want to do and I go back to that because that quest and that's something that has always lived
with me whenever I decide to do anything she said to me at that tender age what do you want to do and I said to her I want to die she says well go I deal with them and I went into the program a tradition of never missed a recital and the thing that I have gone and that is where my journey begun now let's look
at some of the benefits and one is the creative imagination when you enter a creative space the teacher says to you com Warsaw yes fluid does war itself more like a breeze is blowing northern Sri is scanned leave very you know especially ho it's hot can be very lax in it can be also very embarrassing lifting your skirt above your whiz or it can also be
it you know windy hurricane like what they're asking you to become one with the elements that surrounds you be like fire all of the sudden what happens is that you become very aware that these things have picked shows these things I was feeling the sting of a certain way of movin they have Carlo then they say to you imore Sean in mort I do realize that
I'm going to be happy this is where the light is hitting me if I'm going to talk about sorrow is all in here so you become very aware you are more aware dug up rich personable everything that just popped in a row because everything to you has a life everything to you has I mean it it has a life force so what happens persons who are
in the performing arts is that for example if you are in a job on your hard tomorrow okay fine we have to leave you off which is a nice way of saying you're fired you don't of course is that what you did at the first you know first time you're hearing it but what happens to that person is that because they are so creative and because
everything around them means something and everything around them how's life book what happens is that person can move on that person can really create him or herself which is much easier than the average person that doesn't see opportunity and everything so that's one of the main benefits the creative imagination let's look at another and this comes true repetition determination when you start the dance class first
thing you do you are not the bar and you hold onto the bar and you do all the exercises violence and not the bar then you move away from the bar and you're saying don't and you do the same thing but you have to know depend on yourself and what happens after that you do the same thing in from Russia across the floor repetition you keep
repeating the same thing onto you get so good at it that you mesmerized people on this stage you're her so much that you cannot get it wrong and people looked at the hotel you remember all of that because we rehearsed so much we cannot get it wrong if the music stops the downfall of continue on the music pickup but I did not those are the right
point because of repetition how does that play out in your everyday life the average student reading a passage after you have read it once you get very frustrated I do not understand it you're distracted so what you do you get up you you don't watch television on call you friend whatever it might be but this person with don so understands that through repetition I I'm going
to get I am going to stick with it so what happened you start maybe highlight into words that you don't understand you may be called a friend I you start the discussion because you understand that you are not going to get you that the first school you are going to get his full of what time and if you stay with it you can only socks the
now let's look at another point and this is so important because although dole we are all devos and arts and the vase because if you don't think highly of yourself you want portrayed up on the stage if you think you look silly you will look silly so you are taught to think like a diva and if you are the best but it doesn't take away the
fact that you do not operate as an individual on that stage that art teaches you that collaboration is the essence of success it teaches you with that if you are in that class and a student is not getting it are your parents not getting it you take her or him privately and they all get together and say com that's reached earlier because we have to get
this right because of knowing that audience what you are looking not if twenty people on that speed your eye is drawn to the one that is behind the one that does not look would the one that is not in sync on what happens in a situation like that is that you stay the whole group did not look good because that is how we think our eyes
are drawn to the weakest link so they dont suck there very early age I'm very early realize that it is a boat every body looking good where are all the buzz what we've or how often do you see individuality within the arts does not cleo it's about a collaboration everybody working together no less close to another benefit of the performing arts holistic I remember teaching youngsters
and one of the things we're looking at is balances within certain periods and it was the truth and I said to them arm go home tonight ask your parents how do you do to trace and then come back and we will all you know get together on show each other what we have learned Michigan back to me the next doctor says %HESITATION miss mummy said it
was before her time before her time that's the beauty of the arts there's no time we Lauren and Rick kind of John recalled classes because hip hop reggae it down thought Brasilia on Amazon everything all around the word you used sucking on these different type of music I have my doubts the film you something when I hear sophistry how did you find that it's so strange
because the stranger it is no more mistook it is is the more creativity because what that nobody has yet put your stamp on it so you are no way to you was that so there is no time it's a whole mystique for you learn all these different genre of music you know from the time offensively admin to the time of the month that the shot all
the music that does come through the different %HESITATION form the different genres another thing that you get to learn you know holistically is like the you understand what suits you that ought become costume designers what color do you want what you know that especially in the carribean when you're having a performance yeah arse there so much different melanin in the skin within the carribean that you
don't just put everybody in black you just come up would everybody in yellow because the Yellowstone dances bentonite complexion does wash young you look pale and then you somebody come see us at what happened to you do looks alright nothing was wrong with me because of the hot on his watch cute okay so what happens is that no hold this approach to it you learn about
that did your heart about nutrition because one of the things with don says I attended should give the bad nutrition that we have right in order to stay out there especially profession mowed down alright so it's a holistic approach to everything that you learn within their hearts no let's go to the next benefit and harmony think of when you're driving a motor car I knew how
to the totally in that movement the moment you look down to fix or whatever it is that's the vanguard is illegal Joe tex are usually for things drunk in that because you have to have your mind your body and your spirit totally engaged and that's responsible no wouldn't dance you don't have to stress that any of the dances are in things because they understand that if
you are part no win with someone you have to be in that moment ever second of the week because there it is there countdown night when that down so did not take off right and you have to capture and adjusting look in our eyes coming towards you with their I am not ready and you were not as well as on the look in her eyes with
a you better catch me I am call me in the right so you'll have to be in that moment you are always in that moment you're always end up moment if you are going to lift your late because everything all boat lift in that lake house to begin for the alignment with your body you have to be in that moment because for that split second that
you are not in that moment somebody can get injured for that split second you can ruin a person's life if you if you didn't catch them properly and the fellow on the box or hurt them I've known a situation with don's up undertook a blue ball boys lifted I'm his arm was I do you know what it was like for him not so to stop what
the continued dancing with his John slipped out because the lift was bad then lift was not correctly executed right so when it home still collaboration many poems to impart a main everybody working together and the fact that you need to be on this there page the same way it led to see if everything all the time towards on it that's parmi no another benefit that a
lot of people look at as something that is too weak is humility humility is by no means a weak person I don't young don slow dancing with the National Basketball beneath I was chosen as one of the %HESITATION lily is a principal in a violent death was going to be prepared in New York that rex metaphor delayed rex mystified had choreographed I well I was alternate
into ruin with another senior member alternate image she dances one that I got and that's how it works right through the season because we have a regular seasons on the season run for like a month four days a week alright flea alternated and was a printer and when warranted New York I got the message you are not doesn't tonight one o'clock boxes when did not sit
I was there was Steve everything went through me but it was short lived because I had five other announces to do I just couldn't carry that through in August the dots of your disappointment so what happened you start to say to yourself it was not my time season this is our senior members what ever the choreographer one this is his child choreographer that gives birth to
a creative work that's his or her baby she didn't always are he knows what he wants and the down side and you'll have a gun so it doesn't take away from you defect that he might not choose you to do it it doesn't take away the fact that you are excellent isn't that they do not eat what they want in you for their work and you
learn to accept authority you learn to accept the fact that this is the person in authority and this person is making a decision on based on their work so what happened you constant authority but it doesn't make you one less person doesn't make you feel less promote yourself not a thought and I will go back to a whole ice that a performance %HESITATION is always wonderful
if not an excellent week off fed up in a child it's excellent because a lot of times when you are students do you want to join the performance out I thought I see god down south to taught them to fuck cal more but too shy and all that because what we tend to do is look at the end product we look at the end product which
is that I did not on the feet up you guys then but maybe just a decoration sharing the last thing you put on on the queue I know but is stopped look at the process what is it that they're going to bore through what is it that they are going to learn during that process that might never reached out perform on stage that might on to
reach a stage where you thought that shall everybody's cute I'm ever parents think their child is a great as I thought pretty is John all that and I said to my students a to babies are cute and when you address them I you send them all in there you send them with a prayer out because you don't know what they will do because of that parenthood
Yashoda hi thank god and that child will be and that's the if you don't know what they're going to do but watch out there going to get the biggest applause because there are fewer no after you have passed the third is and you know all if not you feel better live fox you'll be back a bit technically competent available because you are not going to be
cute and everybody said your vote she would take it out I'm in Philadelphia pa out because you do I think I got them you know few nope you without my age at them about that felt it you know so it's the same thing with the performance %HESITATION it is the pros that the journey that you take them through full stop no pin I'm not a destination
