Changes to my study programme (and others)

Hello everyone, today I will talk about the changes that I would like to do to my study programme.
I have many things that I would like to my study programme. First of all. I would like to be ballet everyday, because for me, it´s the most hard tecnique to dominate.  The techniques could have more credits. More than change the subjects, I would like that change the contents. It could be more difficult. I  drop the somatic practices except the first year. I think that it's important the corporal conscious the first year for understand our body, but after, the body could be trained so much the next years to be able to do anything.
English is a subject innecessary for me. I think that the best way to learn english is go to another country where speaking english.
I think that the career should last only five years, not six. Maybe the workload could be less for have the time and the energy to  can do another things related with dance but out of the university.
I think it's absolutely necessary to have a kinesiologist  for the dance career, because the injuries are very frequent. The faculty of arts should be an space with enough classrooms, a yard, and the cafeteria should function and be decent. The elevators should be in a good condition and we shouldn`t have fear to die when we up. I think that this is terrible.

Postgraduate studies

Postgraduate studies

Studying dance is hard. The time goes by and the body changes and gets old. In some years I will not be able to do the things that I do now.  For this reason I think that I have to seize my youth. After I finish the University I would like to travel abroad and take many dance courses in diferent places and go to audition for dance in a company or dance collective. I want to learn techniques of dance and interpretation and be a better dancer. Also I'm very interested in ''Coreutica'' and ''Eukinetica''. I think that this studies of the movement are very  tools for  expand the body lenguaje .

I would like to do a formal postgraduate when I will be older. I'm very interested in the  the dance therapy. I think that share the knowledge  is very necessary to be an input in the society and the dance is a good way to heal and relation with the other persons. 

My biggest fears/worries

I think that If we wouldn't live in the past or the future, only in the present, we wouldn't have fears or preocupations. Unfortunately live in the present it's so hard and we have to work for this.  I'm a person very fearful, but I'd like to change. When I was a little girl and I discovered that someday I will die, or my dad and my mom will die, I began to feel a terrible fear. It's very complicated be a child and try to undestand the death.  Some time ago I started to feel this fear again with more intensity and was very complicated. To control this fear  I began to meditate and approach to the spiritual practices. This way I meet Reiki. Also, I  came near to my family. My mom is a beautiful and wise person. Her words and her contention helped me so much. My father is very comprensive too. All that the fear brought  generated a important transformation to me and now I can see things that before I never saw before. For this , I think that the fears have a reason to be. They are talking about ourselves and they show us a way for grow up and be more conscious.

Pets/ animals

Since I was a little girl my family has have pets. My mom really loves the dogs. Now we have eighteen dogs. I think that they invade my space a little, It's very crazy... but it's ok. I like more the cats than the dogs. My grandmother has a cat. Her name is Pepa. I adore her, is very beautiful and loving. She's with us since a kitten.
I think that have a pet is important because is a form of feeling other kind of love, a inconditional and reciprocal love.
In general I respect so much to the animals. I think that they are very kind and generous with the enviroment. In the future I would like to be vegetarian... but i'ts hard for me leave to eat meat. I'm disagree with the zoo and any other animal expoitation activity, like the chilean rodeo for example. I think that it's terrible.

If I could be an animal I would like to be a bird. They are very pretty and independent. I've always want to fly... It must be wonderful. Sometimes I dream with this.

My best vacation

 

I think that all the experiences are good...so, It's hard for me decided one holiday or travel. But well,  in this oportunity I will write about a special travel that I did this year. In August , a friend named Matías and I  were invited to dance to Valdivia, in a Festival of contemporary dance. We stayed there only three days, but the experience was very beauty. We arrive to Valdivia a Thursday in the morning and we come back to Santiago the Saturday in the night. Many dancers go to the festival and I can share with their. The first day, we went to walk for the city and we visited a museaum. In the evening we danced in the Municipal Theatre of Valdivia, and after that we went to a cocktail and a dinner. Later, we go to a party. Was very funny, and I felt really happy because so many people congratulate us for our performance.The next day, with Matías we had more time to tour the city and we visited the Botanical Garden of Valdivia. It seems to me very beautifull. In the night we were invited to watch a work of dance named ''Sinapsis''. After the show, we went to the house of Matías's friend. The last day in Valdivia, we took a dance class in the morning and after lunch we go to the beach of Niebla. In the night, again we went to watch other work of dance in the theatre.
This experience was very important to me because was the first time that I go to dance in other place. Valdivia is amazing, and the best, is that I don't spent money because the invitation was all inclusive.

Country I'd like to visit

I would like to visit so many countries, because I think that all of them could have interesting things to see or learn…But I really would like to know about the oriental culture , specially for the spirituality  and worldview that this places have. Maybe I'd like to visit India, but only for a travel. I don't think that i'd like to live in this country because I'm disagree with some traditions  like the marriage or the way that the women are seen. 

I know that India is a big country with a lot of people and its culture  is very old and mystic. The yoga is a practice and indian philosophy , for example. I would like to go to India when I will be more adult and mature, and I need more  spiritual peace and knowledge.  I'd would visit a peaceful place, not crowded cities.

Evaluation of my Blogging Experience

Evaluation of my Blogging Experience

Write about your experience using blogs in the English class.

Write in english has been a new experience to me. I'm not accustomed to write about me and my preferences. Also, is the first time that I write a blog. I don't know how ocuppy this tool, and I think that it's useful. I thought that it would be bored, but it was fun.

I think that my writing skills has better and I have known new vocabulary, but I'm not feel able to write a long text without the dictionary help. I have some  gramatical problems yet and I'm not so fast writing in english.
Truly, I wouldn't like to write about another thing. I think that it's enought. I don't like to talk about myself, specially in the internet where any person can read it. If I want to write, probably I will do in privacy and spanish. I think that with the english I can't express all my ideas. The spanish seems to me more poetic, and  the same idea could be write of many ways.

About music

It's hard to me talk about music. I would like to know so much about music genres. Now I like the minimalist music, rock, pop, jazz, trova, tango and classical music.  I grew up to listening Queen and ABBA because my father liked it. Also I knew all the songs of Chayanne because my mother love him. In my adolescence I used to listen british and american bands. When I was 14 years old I began to take piano lessons, but I think that I don't play it so good. This way I knew Chopin and Beethoven, and I became interested in classical music. I another life i would like to be a composer. Now  I  like the instrumental music. The sounds of the cello, the double bass, the guitar and the piano break my heart. Yann Tiersen and Rene Aubry likes to me so much. They are french musicians.

 This year my aunt invited me to the Coldplay's concert. I really enjoyed songs like ''The scientist'', ''Fix you'' and ''Yellow''. It seems so beautiful to me.

I really admire to the musicians and composers. I think that their work is amazing.

My favourite book

When I was a little girl and I learned to read I remember that the the first book that I read was a chilean tale named ''El medio pollito'' by Rosario Ferré. I always was interesed in reading. I prefer to read novels, essays, poetry more than  scientist literature.

I've never have a favourite author, but Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sabato, Gabriel García Márquez, Hermann Hesse, Miguel de Unamuno, Mario Benedetti, Alejandro Jodorowsky, María Luisa Bombal, Fiódor Dostoyevsky among others have written a books that I liked it and have marked my adolescence.

If I had to chooose a favourite book I think that it was ''One hundred years of solitude'' by Gabriel García Márquez. For me, this book is a masterpiece. The first time that I read it  I was 14 years old.  This is a magical realism novel that relates the Buendía's story, a family that lives in a place named Macondo. Is a very beautiful story. In the attached image appears a little review of this.

Now I'm reading ''Sensitive Body'' by David Le Breton. It is related with the body, the relations and the dance. 

A person that I admire: Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan was an american dancer borned in May 27th,1877. Her life was very intense and complicated since she was a little girl. She's known for her dance inspired in the waves. 

Isadora  was the first dancer in investigate the expression of the movement, searching a natural dance that coming from the soul and escapes from the artificial and virtuous representation, rejecting this way the academic dance.She passed hours and hours experimenting with her body until find a true movement. Inspired from the observation  of the greek figures in the museum, she broke with the clothes used in the classical ballet and danced without shoes and wearing tunics that gives to her the free that she wanted. Her dance was very related with the music and the emotions.

Her movements and ideology could be consider  the base of the modern dance and the improvisation. Isadora with her sister found a school where teaching this way to understand the dance. In that place they don't impose a specific technique.

I really admire her for the bravery that she has for confront the life and her permanent search in the dance.

"Tv shows and Series"

 "Tv shows and Series"

I don't watch TV  so much , because It get bored to me and  I don´t have many time for this. If I have free time,  I prefer to do any other thing. 

When I started to study dance, I liked to see ''So you think you can dance'', because the virtuosity of the dancers surprises to me, but now that's not so interesting to me. Actually I don't watch tv shows or Series,  I prefer the movies.  

When I was a a little girl I remember that I spent so much time watching TV. I liked  to watch animate series of Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids while I ate a lot of cookies. Courage the cowardly dog, the powerpuff girls, the cow and  the chicken, the pink panther, the flintstones and many others are some of the series that I watched in my childhood.

Now, the truth is that I'm so far of the TV series and I'm not interested in watch some of them. 

A photograph that I like: ''Landscape as an attitude''

''Landscape as an attitude'' is a photograph was taken in 1979 at the United States by Luis Camnitzer, a Uruguayan artist born in Germany. This photograph is a self-portrait of the artist and shows his face like a topography in which appears  different elements of a rural landscape.
I like this photograph because it seems to me very interesting the way that the human body presents as a surface that  holds something, in this case, the animals, the tree and the house. The forms, folds and textures of Luis's face remind me a mountain. This photograph generates in me the idea that all  the persons could be thought like different landscapes, and it  seems to me so beautiful.
Many times, more than find a logical meaning  to an artwork, I only prefer feel that it produces to me. In ''landscape as an attitude'', I like the simplicity and calm of the scene,  I feel in peace.

I found this photograph in  Artishock, a web page about the contemporary art, specially  visual arts. If you can visit this page, this is the link: artishockrevista.com. Enjoy it!

         My favourite movie

I think that my favourite movie is The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain directed for Jean Pierre Jeunet. I really like this movie because this simple story shows to us the beauty of the life and how it is full of 

 little details and symbols. The atmosphere in which the story unfolds its very cozy and the soundtrack of Yann Tiersen is wonderful. All the characters are very special and contribute something interesting to the story.

The first time that I saw this movie was in 2011. In this moment I was 14 years old. I remember that the movie moved me so much. I felt so happy and hopeful. After that, every time that I felt sad or lonely I saw this movie.

I like movies of drama, romantic, surreal, animated movies. I dont like the movies of terror and  fiction science 

The most recent movie that I saw is Boyhood. I liked that movie but It left to me with a empty sensation. The story of the filming of the movie likes to me more than the movie itself. 

Recently I have wanted to see a movie who name is Froth on the daydream directed for Michael Gondry, but its very difficult find it. The main actress of this movie is Audrey Tautou, the same that Amélie.

My favourite piece of technology

 My favourite piece of technology is the mp3. 

This is a electronic

device whose main function is  store music.  

I began to use it when I was a teenager.

 I use the mp3 for listen to music and transfer documents from a computer to other, like a pendrive.  I use it everyday, in any place when I want to have a moment for me . With  the mp3 I have the possibility to  listen to music when i'm walking for the streets or going in the subway or the bus. I like it  because is very practical. You can carry a lot of music or information in this little device, and is like to have your own soundtrack of the life.

I think that the life without it could be very different. Maybe, we are more attentive to the sounds of the world, who are very beautiful also, and we could apreciate it.  For this reason, I think that we should use it in an right extent, alternating between the music and the reality.

Why did you choose this career/study programme?

 Why did you choose this career/study programme?

I remember that when I was a child I played to be a chef, a teacher, a waiter...but I don't remember if I wanted to be some of this things. I only know that I've always liked to dance.

When I was in the high school, the architecture and the psychology were good options to me. I liked  this careers, but they don't fill me. The hobbies that I had in this years were the music and the dance.  I took piano lessons but it stresses to me, so I left  that and began to take dance workshops. In this moment I knew that I wanted to be a profesional dancer and this was my only objective. So, I applied for three dance's schools of Santiago. One of them was the Universidad de Chile.

Until now, my experience in the university has been  enriching. My body has changed and my mind has opened.

I would like to job being a interpreter of dance in some company or proyect. Also I would like  make dance lessons as a teacher and create some choreographys.

My Auto Biography

 My Auto Biography

Mi name is Vania Pascualetti Reyes. I was born on June 18, 1996. 

I began my studies in San Sebastian school in Los Andes city,  and I continued it in Colegio Ecológico Paine. In this place I did the high school and graduated in 2013.  Later, I began to study dance at Universidad de Chile and I'm here yet. This is my third year in the career.

Actually I live with my family. My dad, my mom and my little sister. She's 14 years old. My grandmother and my grandfather live near of us. I see them frecuently. Sometimes my aunt, my uncle and my cousin come to home. I really like that. I love so much to my family, they are very important to me.
Generally I don't have so much free time because my career takes up all my time, but when I 'm not busy I like play the piano, read poetry, listen to music, cook with my grandmother, write something, collect quotes, see my friends and talk with them, etc.