tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84509034208809484642024-02-20T12:34:37.607-08:00Copenhagen Contemporary Dance SchoolCCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-50053628859530612782013-01-09T06:35:00.000-08:002013-01-09T06:35:03.780-08:00A happy internIn November we had a lovely visit from Olivia Nørgaard who was an intern with us. Olivia shares with us her experiences from her internship:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Hi everybody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">My name is Olivia Nørgaard
and I dance at The Danish Talent Academy at The Royal Ballet School in
Holstebro, Denmark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday in week 47 I had the pleasure of being an intern at Copenhagen
Contemporary Dance School. I especially liked the atmosphere at the school.
Everybody was extremely nice and accommodating. A lot of people say that the
dance environment can be kind of snobby but that was in no way the case at
CCDS. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I had only danced for 3
months and was a little nervous about having to go dance with people from both
Denmark and all over the world that have danced for several years. It turned
out that I had nothing to worry about because all the students helped me
through and showed me the exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The classes were right at
the top. Everybody was so talented and even though I was only there for 3 days,
2 of my dance teachers have already seen a development in my dance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I had 3 super good days. A
huge thanks to both students and teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Olivia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>My vocabulary of dance</b></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dance requires vocation, knowledge and skill for your body as well as
your mind. Dance demands the whole you - not only your brain and body - It
demands your heart and soul and becomes a poetic and dramatic explosion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I will sacrifice myself to the movement, so that I am pure and clean
enough to step on stage and take the audience under my skin - so deep that they
can taste my soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her dreams crashed but also where she learned to dream. It was a warm morning
in August 2008; She was sweating and trying to keep up with all the tall
ballerinas. But every time they went left, she went right. The teacher screamed
and the only thing, the young girl wanted, was to keep up with the others. After
the lessen an unknown elderly lady looked at her and said; “I was looking at
you the whole class. You where dancing with your soul, you will need to
remember that”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A serious young woman took her first class with the legend Nini
Theilade. She felt secure and nervous at the same time. In the class the
teacher said to her out of the blue; “Many young girls come to me and ask me if
I think they should dance. I say to them, if you’re meant to be an artist you
would never be in doubt”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The two women’s words made a huge impression on me. They said two
completely different sentences I will never forget. The first gave me
confidence, will and love. The second story is my mantra. I have never doubted
in who I am, I have questioned it a lot of times, but I’m not in doubt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve grown a lot as a dancer. I know my body in and out, and I’m on a
wonderful journey exploring movement and I’m still hungry for more learning.
I’m playful with my surroundings and try to find loopholes where I can show a
part of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I see myself as a storyteller - Every time I dance, I add a word to my
vocabulary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">- Nanna Jensen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">WHY I DANCE</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Today
is the last day of week 6 at CCDS (pre-professional education).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been busy preparing "Waltzing Bodies" for the upcoming
Copenhagen Culture Night performance in the old Power Station of Carlsberg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a long day of technique class and rehearsing, back in the changing room, I
could still smell the residue of the oil in the machine and the dust on the
marble floor of the Power Station in my hair. I looked down at my bruised
knees, shoulders, hands and feet, feeling amused by thinking of the song “I
Bruise Easily" from Natasha Bedingfield. I asked myself once again what
the hell I decided to step into "Dance" at such an unusual age?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it to fulfill my emotional needs or my physical needs? Or perhaps both? Or it
rather depends on the day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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maybe I just want to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">TALK?
Talk to whom? Talk about what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Since
when did I start to care about words?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thought that I was the “leave me alone” kind of girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I wait for a response from God knows where?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Well,
actually I am scared of the interaction? Then I guess the next<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">logical
thing to do would be running away, run as fast as I possibly can!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">with
my eyes shut and ears closed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not with my eyes shut, otherwise I would loose the direction and trip and fall!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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no, that's my worst nightmare! – TO FALL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could fall into a black hole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">But
if I really think about it, is it so bad to fall into a black hole?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it can't be that bad! One thing I know for sure is that I would enjoy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">the
total silence in there!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">BLACK
= SILENCE, is it a physical equation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Is
there a hard surface at the bottom of the black hole?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">If
yes, then it would break my tailbone; then I won’t be able to dance for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">a
few weeks; then I will be devastated and will feel trapped alone in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">dark
and the hopelessness would kill me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">But
wait, honestly I can hardly imagine that I am the only person in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Dancehallene/Vestebro/Copenhagen/Danmark/Europe/Earth who forgot to keep her
eyes open while running away from things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
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we all run at the same time and from the same place towards the same direction
with eyes wide open, we could create a strong gravitational field, stronger
than the black hole!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Out! The black hole is rolling towards US!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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heart skipped a beat, did yours too?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">I
tripped and fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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matter where the force comes from and what that force is, with or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my eyes open,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">I
still tripped and fell and I still got bruises on my body,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am still feeling hurt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Ehnnnnnnn,
I just felt a tingling in my right finger tips!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">I
guess I just danced!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Dance
for me is a trajectory of a journey. It provides me with a path to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">understand
and interact with myself and with my surroundings physically, emotionally,
realistically and imaginatively. Inspiration and curiosity keep me grounded.
Without dance, I would be LOST with eyes shut and with numbed fingers and toes.</span><span lang="NL" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Dear Morten and
Lotte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">It has now been a
month since I moved to Rotterdam and this week is the second normal week with a
normal schedule – we have had a week’s intro and weeks of training before that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">I love it!
Everything is better than I ever could have expected. Our teachers are super
dedicated, experienced and special in each their way. I enjoy everything from
ballet, Laban, Graham, ballet history, anatomy and many other subjects. The
school is incredible and with 10 studios there is room for a little of everything!
The whole system seems really good and solid to me. We have a whole program
with information and help with problems from injuries and psychological
problems to financial problems – they take good care of us and really want
healthy, strong and smart students. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">The level is
really high. In our class it is clear to see that they have chosen students with
a very good classical technique. Most from my class come from ballet high schools or similar to that like The
National Conservatory Dance School in Portugal, so I am really challenged in
ballet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">30 students have
been chosen from 600 candidates – normally they take in 60 students but they
have chanced the system and want to make the dance department smaller – or so I
understood it. From 30 students approximately 5 are from The Netherlands and
the rest are from all over Europe. I see it as a really big privilege that I
got in and can’t completely understand that I am a part of Codarts! The only
thing about the shool that is a shame is that the building does not open until
08.25 in the morning. We have our first class at 9 o’clock that means only half
an hour for warm up! I am trying to change that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Besides our
regular schedule there is so much more going on. I participate for example in
salsa classes every week taught by to students from second year. Every Saturday
there are usually different workshop (the last three weeks in floor work) and
on top of that I have become friends with students from the circus department
and have started to learn to joggle with diablo and cones and train hand
stands. I hope to be able to combine that with my dancing and thereby grow as a
dancer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">So to sume up: I have
a big smile on my face and enjoy every day here. I love Rotterdam and have
settled in well – good apartment and nice people around me! And being Danish I
get educational support into my bank account each month!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">I cannot thank
you enough for everything you have taught me – it is clearly an advantage with
all the experience I gained last year! THANK YOU! If you would like to, you can
read the blog I am writing about my experiences in Rotterdam:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Many many many
happy greetings from Astrid! (:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">I wanted to send you a little greeting. I have thought of you several times because I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">have realized the benefits I have received </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">after my year at the school. Because of that I want to say THANK YOU!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">When I was in the middle of it all I couldn't see how much I had advanced and I never really found my place in the group. Now that I'm on my own, I feel the great difference. I would never be where I am now with out you behind me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">I have just started again after six months of illness and six weeks of summer holiday with three hours of intensive training daily to get back into shape.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Therefore I have once again reflected on my life in dance, and when I once again thought of you, I decided to let you know how grateful I am.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">So thank you for everything - I wish you a good start with the new students.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Many warm thoughts from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Malene</span>CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-10805646348554331622012-03-19T01:53:00.002-07:002012-03-20T00:38:25.597-07:00The Sound of Dance - A testimonial from previous student Lucrezia Maimone<br />
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"Everyday when I wake up, I try to feel my body, my heart, muscles, feet... And like a train here comes a voice, it <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;">repeats</span> the words of Morten and Lotte: "drop the tailbone!" "extend the arms!", <i>"</i>keep focus". They resound inside my brain, as an echo bouncing back continuously.</div>
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The experience at CCDS is one of the most interesting events that a young dancer can have. I didn’t realize it immediately, but now with the distance of one year since my studies there, all the information I achieved, is becoming a reality in my daily life. T<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;">he notions I learned from these great teachers</span> have become a part of my everyday <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;">thoughts.</span></div>
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Now I'm working on bringing out my own character, focusing on the importance of keeping the path shaped from my spontaneity, with a clean imagination without any filters to interfere with my integrity. I am currently working with an Italian contemporary dance company and also with a small new-circus company. </div>
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I really wish that I will wake up one day and listen again for the reality of their voices guiding me. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;">No matter the time, the weather</span>, the emotional feeling or the job, in everything I do, I still hear this little voice in my mind, not so far away, I can hear it, and I'll never stop hearing it. I will never forget them.</div>
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Lucrezia :)</div>
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<b>Check out Lucrezia's work here:</b></div>
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This video shows Lucrezia doing her solo work project for CCDS, filmed in a corridor at Dansehallerne:<br />
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<br /></div>CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-48691653675944926822012-02-28T02:04:00.000-08:002012-02-28T02:04:55.203-08:00Jesper Nilsson's scholarship story made it to the local Swedish media. Well done Jesper!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-34955815089653982532012-02-22T04:06:00.000-08:002012-02-22T04:06:57.214-08:00Auditioning for "Peeping Tom"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Small countries have to find a niche to stand up to their big neighbours. I am favourably impressed by the richness of Belgium’s contemporary dance scene. The diversity of different companies and styles is proof of a brave population and a creative environment. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">One year ago, I saw Peeping Tom perform for the first time; the intensity of the mountain landscape, where a handful of campers were confronted with their loneliness, left me breathless. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">12 months later, I saw by chance, that the company is holding an audition for a replacement for this very performance. A small piece inside of me tumbled and without thinking any further, I sent my application.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">In-flight, I realized, how radically my life changed. Instead of studying in dark libraries for the university, I was about to make the first move into a new fascinating world. Contrary to expectations, I wasn’t nervous. I felt, that the first half of the year at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School provided me with reassuring tools. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Stay focused, don’t repeat yourself, use every part of the body, drop your tailbone and go further, further, further – dance it out.</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">This advice from Morten, Lotte and the guest-teachers hummed like music in my ear and helped me find self-confidence. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">For the rest of the audition, I noticed over and over again a smile flashing over my face. In this nerve-racking situation, I never felt lost. Somewhere on my back, there was this growing bag, filled with tips from CCDS, which put me in the right direction.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although another dancer was chosen for the role, I feel proud. I came further than I ever dreamed and turned over a new leaf. There is a very specific part of dance, which is conforming to me. </span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of our students, Sarah Elena Deppeler writes passionately about dance when she applies for an audition. We have persuaded her to let us publish her most recent letter of motivation. Read her words and take inspiration from her thoughts about the process and purpose of dancing.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">We live in a highly engineered world conducted by mind. Every day, people pour over numbers and letters. Our brain is sophisticated and beyond doubt, it allows us to handle the complexity of everyday life. But we can also use this capacity to express ourselves variably. Thousands of words form a language. To be able to communicate in a foreign language you have to learn long lists of vocabulary and phrases. During my language studies I realized that no matter how well you know a language, you are rarely or never capable of expressing exactly what you think or feel. It seems, that some inside processes are not expressible through language. But what if those thoughts constitute the deepest interests of human being? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">While dreaming we sometimes have the impression of understand whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds. Dreaming is a state of half awareness where hidden fragments of the world and we appear in a different light. With closed eyes and deep breath we find a language that is unmistakable. I believe that dancing comes very close to this state of mind. Before children learn to speak, they make themselves understandable through movements. In highly emotional situations, people mostly don’t talk but move – tremble, convulse, run or jump. The body language is international, leaves room for interpretation and is nevertheless unambiguous. I want to dance because I want to find a different approach to my thoughts. Intensity and emotions, colours, fragrances, moods and atmospheres are nowhere as united as in dance. Good dancers captivate the senses of the spectator in an impressive way. Dancing is everything but indifferent. A dance performance affects everyone in a certain way no matter whether the message is readily identifiable or abstract. No words in the world can touch as deep as dance can. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Without any background in dance I discovered two years ago the richness of contemporary dance, which I’m more grateful for than I can put into words. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">After some hesitation I see my non-dancer-background now as an interesting strength that can contribute to the diversity of dance. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">I would like to continue my (never ending) journey. Work as a professional dancer and choreographer, to reflect upon my thoughts using the body, to tell stories and encourage an audience to face up to the world and themselves. </span></div>
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I come from Rydsgård, Skåne, Sweden. I started dancing, mostly breakdance and street dance, when I was 11 years old. At age 16, I auditioned and was enrolled in the three-year Dance Artist education at Lund School of Performing Arts. I had taken quite a few workshops previously with various choreographers and dancers from all over the world. I had also performed in the musical; Fiddler on the Roof which was set up in Lund, Sweden and danced in opening shows and promotional commercials for a radio station in Sweden.</div>
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Since my enrolment in CCDS I have continued to live at home in Sweden and take the train to Copenhagen every day; A journey that takes about one hour.</div>
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It's very exciting being a student at CCDS because of the ever-changing schedule of different guest teachers coming in! I love it! And you really get the good individual constructive criticism that you want and need to be able to change and achieve an insane amount of improvement in just one year.</div>
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I wanted to study at CCDS because it offers an opportunity to receive really good individual coaching and great tools to improve in a very short space of time. It really gives you a great awareness of your body and what you need to warm up and be able to do your best!</div>
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During my study year at CCDS I expect to gain a higher level of maturity in my way of moving and thinking when I dance and to develop an even higher level of technique and flexibility than I already have.</div>
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After this year I plan to audition for Modern Dance Theatre, Island Academy of the Arts, Khio and SEAD.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma;">Some of our students have to seek financial funding to support their living costs as students. Our experience has shown that it is worthwhile putting some effort into researching and applying for dance scholarships.</span></div>
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Jesper Nilsson is from Sweden. In the summer/autumn of 2011 he applied for and received two scholarships in support of his dream to become a professional dancer. The first scholarship was a 1.000-euro, cultural scholarship from his hometown, called <b>Skurups Kommuns Kulturstipendium</b>. The second one was a 500-euro scholarship from <b>Rune Ljungdahls Stiftelse</b>.</div>
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Michelle H. Flagstad is from Norway. Unfortunately, the Norwegian student financing system does not support Michelle’s education at CCDS. Michelle researched into different funds and applied for several scholarships. As a result she was awarded 20.000 NOK from <b>G9alt fond by Sparebank1</b> as well as a 15.000 NOK scholarship from <b>Tom Wilhelmsens Stiftelse</b> to develop as dancer. Michelle says she is very grateful for the support, and for the fact that dancers are able to get scholarships - not just musicians, artists and athletes. </div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/24891914">CCDS PART 1</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6929526">Lisa Nilsson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/25017837">CCDS PART 2</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6929526">Lisa Nilsson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-86649761638221257352012-01-12T10:27:00.000-08:002012-02-22T04:08:01.840-08:00Life after CCDSWe asked one of last years graduates Lisa Nilsson to write a few words about her new life in Stockholm, studying at Balettakademien. Here is her letter:<br />
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Dear Morten and Lotte,<br />
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Last week we did studio
performances for all the students at the school, including the three year-groups
of contemporary dance students, the preparatory dance line students and the
street dance students. We showed two choreographies we had learned between the
autumn break and Christmas. My class was divided into two groups; one group had
contemporary choreography classes with Lee Brummer and the other group had jazz
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We also had the option to show
our own choreographic work, which we worked on in our free time during the
autumn period. Student who wanted to show their work in the performance signed
up for an audition. 6 works were then selected for the showing. I danced in a
piece choreographed by my friend Annika, who also composed and played the music
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The year at Balettakademien is divided into 4 periods where
you switch teaches and some of the classes. We have ballet, contemporary and
jazz every week. Other classes vary between street, composition, improvisation,
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Our school days are from 9 to 5 every day. We generally
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We usually have the same teacher during a whole period and
most teachers are permanent staff that returns each year. We don’t have many
external teachers, as I would like and this is one of the main differences
compared to my year at CCDS. The good thing about it is the sense of continuity
and routine in our daily work. I usually start my day in the school gym, where
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My experience is that the school is very physical and that I
have developed during the autumn term. I try to live in the moment and to make
the most of each day. I am stretching these days to maximize my body’s
potential and I can really feel it. There is not as much focus on creativity at
the school, but I am actually functioning really well right now, working
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Everything surrounding my life at the school is good. I live
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I would love to come to Copenhagen soon; perhaps to follow a
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My week at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School, was a week of challenges and experiences. <br />
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The first day was very quiet. The dancers discussed their educational plans just like any other dedicated students. But their plans were far from the world I am used to where students talk of A-levels followed by university. In their world there were dreams and passions of being a professional dancer. Morten Innstrand told the dancers how to write their motivational letters and they were all ears.<br />
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The first day I had to get used to the fact that only English was spoken in class, as the school is very international with students from places like Iceland and Greece. But I soon got used to hearing 5 different languages each day! <br />
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Tuesday, after strapping on my camera and cycling to CCDS I was blown away by the dancers' skills in their morning ballet class. Neither my camera, nor my eyes were still for even a moment.<br />
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After ballet was a change of genre. Hardcore contemporary dance, which I bravely made an attempt to follow, dancing until the sweat poured. I gave up quite quickly and I hereby apologise to all that saw me dance that day. And I humbly bow to you all for not having collapsed yet, because that was so hard and so difficult! However I did manage to take some really great pictures. <br />
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Wednesday I woke up to an experience which every dancer must go through a thousand times every day. I had danced no more than 10 minutes and my back was completely beat. An old back injury of mine could be partially to blame, but nonetheless I felt seriously out of shape as I wrote to one of the dancers to say that I was staying home to edit my photos.<br />
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Thursday was yet another day of fantastic dancing. The whole week simply merged together, constantly surrounded as I was by these highly passionate and skilled people. And once again I was struck with silent awe by these wonderful dancers and their amazing teachers.<br />
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Besides the dancing, one of the things I noticed during my week at CCDS was the feeling of togetherness among the dancers. It was obvious that they had become one large family that cared for one another. I have often imagined that a dance education would be a place of competitiveness rather than friendship, but this prejudice was brought to shame at CCDS. I cannot imagine finding a more wonderful and safe working environment anywhere.<br />
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Friday I showed my pictures to the dancers. They seemed appreciative of my efforts and happy with the results. My results from this week weren’t just a stack of wonderful pictures, but also a bag full of experiences.<br />
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I had been a little nervous when I came to the school on the first day, but both teachers and dancers gave me such a warm welcome.<br />
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It’s Friday morning. A Friday after 4 days of crazy hard training. I feel like a 90 year old when I step out of my bed. Every muscle is hurting, my feet, knees and shoulders are blue. In some weird way it feels really good. This week my body and brain has been bombarded with movements; rolls, jumps, falls, pretty ballet pointed feet and twirled contemporary spines. We’ve learned 5 new choreographies, more or less. And not just any choreographies, but most of them from the astonishing performance Transparency. A performance with 7 fantastic multi-national artists, doing deadly dance phrases showing the never ending wheel of corruption.<br /><br />This morning I could have stayed in my bed, but I manage to drag myself to school, knowing that otherwise I will regret it. I haven’t looked at today’s schedule, but I think that we have ballet. I’m in school a little hour before class starts, to warm up. I start with a nice exercise that one of my former teachers used to do with us, getting through my whole body, stretching some parts, massaging others. My poor feet get extra attention for supporting me and keeping me up day after day. Push-ups to become stronger when doing handstands, sit-ups to activate the center, and back bends to stay in balance. Time is up and class is about to start.<br /><br />I remembered wrong, we don’t have ballet, but contemporary. I let my body melt down to the floor and to the voice of our teacher, I imagine a warm oil filling up my body, making it move. I feel the warm oil changing to boiling water, making us bump around like freaks, ending up doing freestyle sit-ups, faster and faster, until we slowly go down to the floor, staying here a few seconds with the blood tickling around. We do some series on the floor, working on loosening up, getting more flexible and strong, precise and aware of our placement on the floor and in the room. We do a funny, kind of awkward, monkey-swinging-like walk over the floor. With that I mean a walk on knees and the upper feet, which doesn’t really make my feet much better, but I get a smile and a nice comment from one of the others, and I keep on, because it actually is quite funny.<br /><br />After this enjoyful class, we have a half hour break, used for stretching and snacking on some dried fruit and nuts, then it’s time for a 2 hour workshop with Lotte in Store Carl and more killing movements. Luckily not much more new choreography, that wouldn’t have fit into my head, but time to go in depth with the spin-choreography that we learned the day before. There’s a crazy, but beautiful and strong jump, quick movements from up to down and around and a smooth roll back over the shoulder. It just really doesn’t look smooth when I do it. Every time I bump to the floor on a new bone, my skeleton must soon be painted in blue marks on my skin. But it get’s better and suddenly I do it right, once. We dance and dance, over and over again, switching groups, giving and getting feedback from our partner in the opposite group. It feels great to be on the big stage with lots of place to move, improve, use all energy and still do it again.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><br />Then you think that time must have run out, but it’s only been 1 hour, and we get a new exercise. 10 minutes to make a solo, with emphasis on direction and focus on the pelvis. Fuck. Clear your head, don’t think, don’t go black, just act. And I actually do. First 1 movement, then the next. 1, 2, 3 movements, some more. Again from the beginning, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 movements up, down and around, remember to breathe. And time is up. But I have some material, and I find it quite good. Then show it, do it again in front of 36 eyes looking at you, only you. Remember it and all the notes you’ve had over the last couple of months, so the mouth under 2 of the eyes wont give you the same, but probably something new. And there’s always something new.<br /><br />I get up on the stage, I start, I move, I remember, I forget… One second feels like eternity. But, I stay in the moment, catching the eyes of some of those watching me, and I continue.<br /><br />Text by Manon<br /><br />Photos by Emma ArnoldiCCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-2628832350587402042011-11-15T02:20:00.001-08:002011-12-09T02:22:47.844-08:00Ballroom Dancer at CPH-DOX<div style="font-family: inherit;">
Student Lyn Bentschik from CCDS reports back from dance documentary <i>Ballroom Dancer</i> at CPH-DOX and reflects upon the spirit of dancing.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yesterday I
went to the opening of CPH DOX, the documentary film festival in Copenhagen. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From the
outside, the Danish Radio building didn't look very inviting. Two blue lighted
cubes and a huge parking area. But as soon as I went inside, the building
started to unfold itself and got more beautiful with every level I reached. My
seat was on the balcony so I had to go all the way up until I entered the
concert hall. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What an amazing architecture! The room felt huge, warm and very
alive compared to the dead and cold parking area I'd just been to a few minutes
before. Beside the red seats and the big screen in the middle of the round room
I couldn't spot a single 90° angle. The room was round, the walls covered by
beautiful wooden structures with groups of seats going all the way up, almost
to the ceiling. Instead of an orchestra a big screen was installed in the
middle of the room as we were going to watch the opening movie of the film
festival <i>Ballroom Dancer</i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The film portraits
the attempted comeback of a 34 year old Russian dancer after a 10-year break
from competition. Even though he trained really hard, dramatically shown in the
movie just like you imagine it: sweat, screaming, diet, exercises, close-up of
the oh-my-god-I-can't-take-it-anymore-face and so on, he failed and couldn't re-find
the spirit that had brought him so much success years ago. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Even though
he reached 3<sup>rd</sup> place once and 5<sup>th</sup> place twice he couldn't
take it anymore and decided to give up professional dancing entirely. In the
last scene we see his ex-girlfriend and ex-dance partner Anna, marrying another
guy and also see him teaching young upcoming talents. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You might
think this sounds rather tragic and depressing to watch but the way I felt
after the movie was in fact the exact opposite; it left me feeling encouraged
and proud. Encouraged, because there's no way of reaching 1<sup>st</sup> place
(or whatever you want to call the goal we're all working our asses off for)
without finding that <i>spirit</i>. And
proud to be able to go to a school that understands this und tries to give us room
to search for that spirit every single day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Text by Lyn
Bentschik</span></div>
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Image from <a href="http://www.cphdoxnews.dk/d/film.lasso?ser=1525&s=2011112" target="_blank">CPH-DOX</a></div>
<br />CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-51197837720898609012011-10-14T07:18:00.001-07:002011-12-09T02:22:32.788-08:00Guest teacher at CCDS this autumn<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">These coming weeks CCDS will be visited by guest teachers Alexandre Bourdat, Marylise Schmidt-Tanvet and Deborah Macedo. We would like to share with you a little info about our teachers. This weeks bio features Alexandre Bourdat:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Alexandre is educated</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 13px;"> at the National Conservatory of Dance in Avignon,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 13px;">He has danced on most Danish stages as well as globally. He has also performed in galas with principal dancers from Hamburg Ballet, Paris Opera, Netherlands Dans Theater, Cirque du Soleil and Batsheva.</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-29447614297784852672011-09-22T02:37:00.000-07:002011-12-09T02:22:32.783-08:00TRANSPARENCYOn October 12th our students are invited to watch a dance performance at Dansehallerne.<br />
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TRANSPARENCY is a dance performance about the nature of corruption, presented in connection with the KICK BACKS festival arranged by Transparency International and Copenhagen Dance Arts.<br />
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From October 6th-21st KICK BACKS presents performances, workshops and lectures focusing on the many faces of corruption.
See the full program at www.cph-dancearts.com <br />
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Take a sneak peak here:<br />
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TRANSPARENCY is choregraphed by Lotte Sigh who is also one the Artistic Directors at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School.CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-34722084188381072492011-09-12T03:16:00.000-07:002011-12-09T02:22:47.847-08:00CCDS final exam 2011<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="220" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28899197?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/28899197">COPENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOL - EXAM 2010/11</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/kirqvortrup">Kir Qvortrup</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-20237130531111676732011-09-07T06:11:00.000-07:002011-09-07T06:13:14.509-07:00Dansens Dage 2010CCDS regularly attends Dansens Dage with student performances. Here are some of our previous students at Statens Museum for Kunst in the performance "Remodeling the Word", choreographed by Artistic Directors Morten Innstrand and Lotte Sigh.<br />
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<i>"For me, the year at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School was truly inspiring. It is a place where you, through opening up and broadening your view and perspective on dance, learn about yourself as a performer. <a name='more'></a></i><br />
<i>I believe that during the auditions for BA degrees (2010) the students from CCDS stood out from the crowd, due to the great practice of audition situations taught by Morten Innstrand and Lotte Sigh. It was a pleasing and tough year of hard work, resulting in great satisfaction of being accepted at several different dance schools/academies around Europe. </i><br />
<i>The atmosphere and class environment was incredibly joyful, with so many individual dancers and makers. I am happy to have made so many good friends, and I honestly thank Morten and Lotte for their support and belief in me to become a professional dancer."</i>CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-16257673510300652492011-09-05T01:54:00.000-07:002011-09-05T01:54:04.954-07:00Final exam 2011 at Cph Music Theatre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrZkvQLYrbOfkD135TdAKO_5ziU70L19fyl4efpxJQHodfPpfwSzkYuKbWMcfWstjZNtPVoTxBzBf6r7n0pSWpVsC-KrcBdDY2tAPM3ydCiIfVH1b-ngVvzroYFxjDlA5t-ByMxo_mpA/s1600/_DSC2347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrZkvQLYrbOfkD135TdAKO_5ziU70L19fyl4efpxJQHodfPpfwSzkYuKbWMcfWstjZNtPVoTxBzBf6r7n0pSWpVsC-KrcBdDY2tAPM3ydCiIfVH1b-ngVvzroYFxjDlA5t-ByMxo_mpA/s320/_DSC2347.jpg" width="212" xaa="true" /></a></div><br />
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All photos by Annett AhrendsCCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450903420880948464.post-24106297059165499652011-08-31T03:49:00.000-07:002011-08-31T03:49:40.162-07:00New students at CCDSThis week CCDS welcomed 17 new students to this years Professional Pre-Education and the new Post-Graduate programme. We look forward to following their progress.CCDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09734509507631097247noreply@blogger.com0