Well since last entry( July22) I went to teach at Atlanta Ballet School’s summer camp, Chicago Dancer Festival( MGDC danced “Cave of the Heart” in August( this was a beautiful festival!!!) I went to Metropolitan Museum in NY, visited my husband’s father in Laramie, Wyoming, saw “Democracy in America: national campaign” at the Armory, saw “A tale of Two Cities”, tour to Greece, saw “Burn This” at the Juilliard School Acting division. and more.

I had a lot…I will try to put pictures later.

And now we are getting ready for Beijin tour (11/24-12/1) Nothing worst that having birthday on the airplane…

I was thinking about for a new entry but had hard time downloading pictures, I don’t know why but this made me away from writing. Today, I saw Benny’s entry and I really like the idea of introducing your fellow dancers , and also David’s wonderful entry from Russia, Veronica’s beautiful young dancers…

so I thought I will try again. Not pictures this time but some thought about “dance” .
I have been thinking about why I dance, why I like dance… and these are some thoughts…

I like dance:
*that thraws challenges us to think about. ( Thinking about early 1920-1940’s. It was nesseccary. I don’t like to watach somebody’s satisfaction dance, I hope you understand what I mean )
*that gives energy. ( without energy, dance becomes dead movement)
*that makes you quetions ( To make us to think about who we are and what are we doing, and why we dance and waht for)
*that gives opinions.( to make us think and search our own ideas/opinions)
*that makes you wanting to dance. ( this is simply making us to want to dance)
*that is pure physical.( I love physical challenge. especially like MG,Merce’s work)
*that is “theater”.(even it is abstract, there is a story or theme and it is a total theater)
*that is very musical.( I love music, so dancing with music is must for me)
I like dancers:
*who search ( who you are as person —who you are in the work )
*who think ( some time too much thinking is not good but not thinking at all is not good)
*who watch other dancers dance ( you can learn a lot from it. And you can steal it from the best! too. as some masters quotes)
*who are honest about their being.( not pretending who you are and what you know. if you do, it will show anyway )
*who are sincere towards technique and works and what you do.( without technique, where can you go? Release movement works if you have some stable thing to brake from. For the works, I keep thinking works of Masters who passed away, how can we preserve their works. Their choreogrphies are like script for Play. Like Shakespear, actors have scripts and their interpretation may varied but words are same. How do you know or how do you find the intension of their works. Can we do that in dance? This is my biggest questions…I know this is a HUGE questions. )
*who are not selfish.( Unless you are dancing solos all the time, you are with other dancers. There are a lot of give and take in dance. Also selfishness really stinks on stage. Even you are dancing solos all the time, you don’t need to be selfish. )
*who are “real” not “fake” ( You have to fake it if you don’t have a good base, and that means you have to have a good training.But in the end, you can not really fake it…)
*who enjoy dancing.( See somebody having good time makes me simply happy)
*who are discipline and a hard worker.( I believe you have to be very discipline and wanting to become a dancer. even you have a nice body to dance, you have to work hard.Sylvie Guillem said it in her documentary too. Sometimes I see dancers who have beautiful body but no passion, those dancers dance are not interested in to watch…MG has a quote for this. I will find it and put it on later)

I am sure I have more to say but for now, this is just a thought that came up on my head now.
If you have some more, I would love to hear what you think about it…

and I will (try to) start my interview with my fellow dancers in MGDC… soon.