I love princess movies. Little Mermaid is one of my favorites, mostly for the music. My other favorite, that is so close to being first, is Anastasia.
Today I have had Once Upon a December stuck in my head. It is a very pretty song, and I like it lots. In fact, I love most of the soundtrack. However, I have one, teensy-weensy problem. I don't own the soundtrack. So, as I sat here at work humming this song, I thought, "silly goose! why not just buy the soundtrack on iTunes???" so I pulled up iTunes and did a quick little search. No dice. They have some of the songs from Anastasia, but they don't have the original cast soundtrack. How frustrating is that? The only way I can find to actually get this soundtrack is to buy the cd!!! Sigh. Maybe that will go on my birthday wish list.... :-)
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
singing...
i couldn't help but sing this song as I walked to schcool this morning. Why might you ask? Mostly because I was traipsing through 6" of snow! I am not a fan. I am done with snow. I am ready for spring. I'm praying for an early spring, so hopefully that little groundhog doesn't see his shadow...
Sunday, January 06, 2008
sick
I hate Murphy's Law with every fiber of my being. Honestly, I thought some kind of sickness (flu, cold, etc.) would catch up with me over the break because I wouldn't be going like I was during the semester and getting sick would just happen. In fact, I told myself it should happen during the break so I could be 100% by the start of the new semester (which is tomorrow by the way). Well guess what? My plans didn't happen, in fact my cold started to come on Friday evening and when I woke up yesterday morning I was very congested, a little achy, and my head felt like it was going to explode. I feel somewhat better today, but no where near where I need to be by tomorrow. I'm shooting just to make myself better so I can actually go to work and school, and not worry about dancing, but I have to be able to dance by Tuesday for rehearsal. [sigh]
In other news CPM comes back to Provo tomorrow and all y'all that know me know how excited I am for him to be back. I made it the entire break without too much heartbreak, but it was still hard and I'm glad he'll soon be back. And now I think I'm going to rest my poor exploding head.
In other news CPM comes back to Provo tomorrow and all y'all that know me know how excited I am for him to be back. I made it the entire break without too much heartbreak, but it was still hard and I'm glad he'll soon be back. And now I think I'm going to rest my poor exploding head.
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dancing
Thursday, January 03, 2008
choreography
Choreography has interested me for some time now. I think the first time I realized how much I loved creating movement to music was my Senior year of high school when I choreographed my senior project to Dixie Chicks' "Top of the World." I loved this music for the last couple minutes of the song due to the sweet string stuff that goes on. Pretty cool music. Having that opportunity to choreograph to the music, pick costumes, and set the lighting myself and the watching the piece on stage was an incredible feeling and one that I decided I wanted to keep having. Thus, I decided I wanted to be a choreographer. I came here to school to be a dance major so that I can choreograph.
My sophomore year of college I was still performing with Ballet Utah, the company I trained with in high school (I did take my freshman year off from them). I asked for permission, and received it, to choreograph a piece for the gala performance in February. I worked with a really good guy friend of mine and together we created a piece about good, evil, and temptations in life. It was an amazing piece that I actually danced in. While I will never dance in a piece I choreograph again, it was a really cool piece and I had a lot of compliments about it after the show.
So I continued on in my quest of getting a degree in dance. Last year, I had the opportunity to put together a piece for Ballet Showcase's spring show; however, at the time I didn't have anything in mind, and there wasn't a piece of music that inspired me. Later on after our show we still had time until the end of the semester so for our choreographic workshop I worked on a piece that I set on two girls to Billy Joel's Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel). It was a comfort zone piece, but was well received by my teachers and what not.
This year we were told we could put together a choreographic proposal that would be due in November for our March show. I was determined to get something into this show. So I searched and searched for the perfect piece of music. When suddenly, it hit me. During the summer I had been driving in the car with BKT, one of my awesome FHE brothers at the time, and we were listening to a CD of his when some sweet music came on that was happy, peppy, and overall perfect for dancing to. I told him that someday I wanted to choreograph to that music. So late in September, I called up the BKT and asked if I could come and listen to his music to find something awesome. 2 hours later I had my music selected, cut, and ready to go. I turned in my proposal, which was accepted and started rehearsal soon after our November show. Currently I have 2/3 of the music choreographed and set on the girls. I will be finishing the choreography in the next couple of days and teach it to them when we get back to school next week. I will then be showing it to our director the week or so after that to get the heads up or down on whether or not this piece will be in the spring show.
Overall, I just love the choreographic process. It's so refreshing to me to take a piece of music and mold steps to it and find the costumes and set the lighting. I love the feeling and I'm excited at the prospect of completing this project. I certainly will have at least one more project here at BYU, which will be my culminating senior choreographic project. I don't know what I am going to do for that yet, but I'm excited at the prospect of yet again finding a new piece of music and molding my ideas into it.
My sophomore year of college I was still performing with Ballet Utah, the company I trained with in high school (I did take my freshman year off from them). I asked for permission, and received it, to choreograph a piece for the gala performance in February. I worked with a really good guy friend of mine and together we created a piece about good, evil, and temptations in life. It was an amazing piece that I actually danced in. While I will never dance in a piece I choreograph again, it was a really cool piece and I had a lot of compliments about it after the show.
So I continued on in my quest of getting a degree in dance. Last year, I had the opportunity to put together a piece for Ballet Showcase's spring show; however, at the time I didn't have anything in mind, and there wasn't a piece of music that inspired me. Later on after our show we still had time until the end of the semester so for our choreographic workshop I worked on a piece that I set on two girls to Billy Joel's Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel). It was a comfort zone piece, but was well received by my teachers and what not.
This year we were told we could put together a choreographic proposal that would be due in November for our March show. I was determined to get something into this show. So I searched and searched for the perfect piece of music. When suddenly, it hit me. During the summer I had been driving in the car with BKT, one of my awesome FHE brothers at the time, and we were listening to a CD of his when some sweet music came on that was happy, peppy, and overall perfect for dancing to. I told him that someday I wanted to choreograph to that music. So late in September, I called up the BKT and asked if I could come and listen to his music to find something awesome. 2 hours later I had my music selected, cut, and ready to go. I turned in my proposal, which was accepted and started rehearsal soon after our November show. Currently I have 2/3 of the music choreographed and set on the girls. I will be finishing the choreography in the next couple of days and teach it to them when we get back to school next week. I will then be showing it to our director the week or so after that to get the heads up or down on whether or not this piece will be in the spring show.
Overall, I just love the choreographic process. It's so refreshing to me to take a piece of music and mold steps to it and find the costumes and set the lighting. I love the feeling and I'm excited at the prospect of completing this project. I certainly will have at least one more project here at BYU, which will be my culminating senior choreographic project. I don't know what I am going to do for that yet, but I'm excited at the prospect of yet again finding a new piece of music and molding my ideas into it.
Labels:
Academy of Ballet,
ballet,
dancing,
friends,
happy,
high school,
music,
new year,
performance
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Welcome 2008!!!!
I rang in the new year, not with my family like I thought I would be doing, but with some friends from high school. they called me up shortly after 10 and invited me over to play. So I did. It was a blast. Thanks guys.
I also rang in the new year at 12 pm...east coast time. Happy New Year CPM...this is me blowing you a kiss: [muah]
I hope all y'all have a fantastic New Year!!
p.s. when I came home, it was 3 very cold degrees. hurrah for cold utah weather. ick.
I rang in the new year, not with my family like I thought I would be doing, but with some friends from high school. they called me up shortly after 10 and invited me over to play. So I did. It was a blast. Thanks guys.
I also rang in the new year at 12 pm...east coast time. Happy New Year CPM...this is me blowing you a kiss: [muah]
I hope all y'all have a fantastic New Year!!
p.s. when I came home, it was 3 very cold degrees. hurrah for cold utah weather. ick.
Labels:
family,
friends,
happy,
high school,
new year
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