Lewis Wheeler (closed): Film and Ballet Books
Thursday, Aug 28 2003, 02:27
The film worked out really well - despite some major problems with my computer - I hadn't downloaded any of the updates/service packs for windows and at one point hadn't had the latest version of the editing version. No that's not just me wanting the newest of everything, its the fact the manufacturers release their products without them even working properly!!!
Anyway the important news is I moved to dundee on the 15th of August-I'm sitting in my room now. It's now the 28th of August and, big drum roll please..... it's my first day of college today!! Aargh, run screaming down road while wetting pants and poking villagers with pointy sticks. -enough cliche and plagiarism.
I've got mixed feelings today really - I'm not bubbling over with nerves, excitement, joy, fear - infact anything really. Perhaps its got something to do with my internal clock (not 'body' clock - shall try to avoid making seperate references to body and mind, as wrote a lengthy and interesting essay on 'the notion of physical intelligence and the development of...' and learnt about and agreed with a lot of things to do with the disadvantages of a dualistic way of thinking). Unfortunately, I can't quite remember why at the moment - i'm blaming waking up at 5.49am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe that's not early to anybody committed to life and early mornings - but compared to my waking up times over this summer holiday it's terrifying!!!
Anyway - back to the point - I did have one you know - I'm not going through any bubbly extremeties of emotion. I'm really looking forward to starting at The Space - I'm worried about the ages of the other people - i'm hoping it's not going to be all sixteen year olds - nothing wrong with sixteen year olds. But I remember when I was at college the first time, while being sixteen/seventeen. I lived on my own then as well - bad bad times :o( and the differences between me then and now are huge, and the people in college compared to Uni - again huge. But obviously I'm starting at the space now so there must be other people like me, starting there as well. I know it's a dumb thing to worry about but its one of those niggly things that gets to you when you spend two weeks in Scotland with barely anyone to talk to! I've only had one conversation over ten minutes long, and that was on the phone to the Isle of Wight!!! - Some new friends will be very refreshing!
Also I doubt we'll be dancing until next week - I want to get back into dance classes asap! Most of my friends from Uni were so happy about the summer holidays and the huge break - Coventry doesn't go back until the beginning of October - but I really didn't want to be out of the lectures/classes/workshops/improv.jams/performances/sitting in corridors talking (b*tchng-(only a little, and only about those who had REALLY upset people))/not going to miss boring tutorials with nobody saying anything - I tried Sela!!/and the fun time! But now I've got another 'induction' to go through. The induction to the lectures at Coventry was almost word for word the induction at Abingdon College - we even played the same games. However, induction weekend and freshers week at uni are so great! - not that anyone can ever remember ANY of it - that I don't think The Space, is going to hold its own against that. However, I won't hold it against them lol! Anyway, I could easily be proved wrong - lets see.
Also, we have to bring £12 to see a performance by Scottish Ballet - I'm hoping that's tonight! I've never seen live ballet before so I am bubbling with some kind of emotion for that. I love ballet - every chance I get I'm reading about it, currently Deborah Bull's - a year with the Royal Ballet (not the correct title). Before I started at Coventry, I was reading dance books like mad. One Critical and Contextual lesson we had Sela was telling us about 'Ballet Rambert's' first ballet (although they were called Marie Rambert Dancers back then) - A tragedy of fashion - by Frederick Ashton (how much alliteration??) But she couldn't tell us the plot of the ballet, while holding the 'Twentieth century ballet' book. Which is a small but intriguing volume, detailing the lives from their foundations of five major ballet companies.....blah blah.
Unfortunately/fortunately I had read that entire book and I knew the plot of that ballet which I relayed to the whole class, looking like a complete nerd (sorry, balletomane) in the process. No offence to balletomanes - it was just a joke. From that point onward, or possibly beforehand - I got taken the piss out of for being a complete know it all in Crit+Cont. (shame my essay marks didn't live up to that!). But hey, at least I know some history - having hated the subject all the way through school!
I really should be getting into the shower now - Depending on whether or not I see ballet tonight and how tired/drunk (me - never!) I am when I get home - I'll give you the full update on a FIRST DAY AT THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE.
after saying that..........i feel bubbles x
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