Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Because we've nothing more to say.

There is no school tomorrow because we've a ex-girl that recently got awarded with the title President Scholar and also to "celebrate the school's numerous achievements and accolades garnered this year." What? I thought competition/SYF period was 3 months ago.

School was okay.
I was hoping really hard that Biology papers would be returned, not because I can't wait to see my outstanding results but I always like The Return of Papers. Why not? I'd cry over bad results but I'd rather mope less. But we didn't get to see any fallopian tubes and tropic levels, only Newton's Law of Inertia. ICT was the completion of the flash clip (finally). Half the LA lesson was dedicated to the giving out of Crabflower performance tickets. We had our lessons in class for once. Peer evaluation of everyday poems; had the wtf mood after a while. Dance was great because I did a backbend with Chenlaoshi's help yay :) tried at home also. Culture test was quite okay except I wrote the wrong word for one of the sentences but that's all.

Because confusion has been expressed over Chinese dance and ballet, hence two videos. Both come from the 8th Taoli Dance Competition in China. Guess which one is chinese dance and which is ballet :)



Anyway the first one is ballet and the second is classical chinese dance technique (hey look it's NYCD's SYF song). Clearly ballet requires a lot less flexibility and there's less movement of the upper back. In fact ballerinas get criticised for having incredible extensions, no joke. No floor work, while chinese dance makes use of floor movements to demostrate splits and all. Ballet NEVER includes somersaults/cartwheels but chinese dance does because I think there's a bit of wushu element to chinese dance. And there's no pointe work because pointe work is unique to ballet. And lastly chinese dance is very broad because there are different tribes and cultures in China but ballet just comes from France and is almost the same even with the different methods of teaching.

This is boring if you don't dance.
I dedicate the rest of this day and tomorrow entirely to homework and projects.

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