August 28, 2008 at 6:18 am · Filed under architecture, SUSAN, theatre, education, school, NYU, susan kim, ethan stiefel, columbia university, theater, north carolina school of the arts
News très exciting: Tomorrow, I become a bulldog!
A Yale Bulldog, that is. (The more appropriate expression is, I think, “Yalie”?)
In no more than seven hours from now, I will officially join the Theater Management department at the Yale School of Drama. (Yea!) The three-year graduate program was one of quite a number of amazing opportunities that were presented to me in the early months of this year. (It broke my heart to turn down the other offers extended to me; I can only hope to be so fortunate in three years’ time.) The notoriously demanding and rigorously intense programme at YSD certainly promises to challenge me in ways that I’ve never before been challenged. Consider, for instance, my first (hunormous) hurdle: catching up on a lifetime’s worth of theatrical history and dramatic knowledge. (Eeps!)
I’ve so many ideas floating about in my head that I want to share. These I will save for another time and for a separate post. For now, my thoughts are buried beneath renewed impressions of Yale University and the town of New Haven, Connecticut. (The luxury of first impressions was, for me, exhausted during my many visits here during my brother’s time as an undergraduate student at Yale College.)
Still, the architecture of the school and the beauty of the neighbouring town never fail to strike a certain awe. Here are some glimpses:
The ever-dominant (and always-domineering) Harkness Tower.
Phelps Gate–the official entrance to Old Campus.
The Bridge of Sighs
The gate leading into Memorial Quadrangle.
Saybrook Tower.
Memorial Hall at an angle.
The New Haven Green.
More to come in a later post (though, hopefully, at an earlier hour).
Wish me luck for tomorrow!
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September 3, 2007 at 12:55 am · Filed under dance, student, beach, MADISON, stiefel and stars, ethan stiefel, marthas vineyard, summer intensive
Hello again! I am sorry that I haven’t been writing as often as I should, now that summer is over I am hoping to get on more of a normal schedule so expect to be seeing more articles in the future!
I finished my second summer program, Stiefel and Stars (S&S) in Martha’s Vineyard. This was my second year at this summer intensive. It is such an amazing program; I don’t even know where to begin. The luxuries that we have while on the vineyard are like no other ballet program I know of. We stay in a beautiful new house equipped with ballet studios on the first floor. Students, staff, and stars live a few steps away from each other which is an amazing experience as well. Johnny Eliasen, Yuri Fateev, John Gardner, Katrina Killian, Amanda McKerrow, Benjamin Millepied, Elizabeth Parkinson, and Scott Wise were all faculty this summer. I got to take class and work with many stars of today as well; Ethan Stiefel, Marcelo Gomes, Benjamin Millepied, Gillian Murphy, Elizabeth Parkinson, Stella Abrera, Sascha Radetsky, Isabella Boylson, Marian Butler, Gray Davis, Thomas Forster, Nicole Graniero, and Melissa Thomas were all there.
Although by going to Stiefel and Stars again this summer it didn’t give me any break I am very glad that I attended. All of the teachers there are so amazing and I feel that they all, in their own way, have helped me grow as a person and dancer. Every year S&S has a performance at the Performing Art Center on the vineyard. This year I performed Konservatoriet, a Fosse piece, and Paquita. Benjamin Millepied also choreographed a world premier called Rebound. It featured Isabella, Nicole, some of the male students, and Benjamin himself. Gillian Murphey and Sasha Redesky were the princple couple in Paquita and they were spectacular, of course. I have to say that personally one of my favorite parts of the performance was Marcelo Gomez. He performed Percussion IV in the Fosse section of our performance and it was wonderful.
I met a ton of amazing people this summer and truly had a great time. Here are some pictures from my summer there, enjoy!
The gorgeous island where we lived…
Here is a picture of some of the students of S&S at the beach…
All of the student S&S
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