As long as you REALLY like it, you will be very happy to work hard on it!
Ivy Huang, currently studies in the dance department of Chinese Culture University
However, after entering the dancing school, Ivy realized it’s totally different than before. Ivy met some teachers were extremely influential to her. When she was in high school, sometimes she was afraid to go classes because of her severe teachers. Sometimes she cried in classes because couldn’t make what teachers asked. But looking back that time, it’s full of gratitude.
Ivy loves modern dance the most. She likes dance with free and dynamic. She always gets lots of surprises from it. She also likes to try new dancing style, challenging herself from what she didn’t know. She isn’t scared about something she doesn’t know. That’s also a reason why she can be always happily immersed in dance.
Asked Ivy what she is the most proud of herself? She said, “The most proud of myself is that I’m a fatty with good flexibility!! Hahaha!!” It’s obviously to know how optimistic she is. In her dancing journey, many teachers asked her to lost weight to be slim. She is usually listed as waiting list in many auditions because of shape. But she still have selected eventually from her skill. It’s grateful she didn’t get too much hurt from it.
Almost ten years pasted by, Loving dance is still unchanged for Ivy. She always hopes have opportunities to go aboard studied. She wants to learn more and dance better. Now she is trying to see if is there any chances to test into Europe’s modern dance troupes, to make her dream come true. She said, “As long as you REALLY like it, you will be very happy to work hard on it.”
You are a part of art while doing on an art work.
Lai Lai studied in Department of drama and theatre in National Taiwan University
Lai Lai has a sensitive heart within cheerful personality and simple looking. Asked her why likes dance, she said, “Dance can make me concentrate and I like the feeling from concentrating. In that moment, there is a pure and joyful dancing world. Also it makes me far away to disturbances from reality. ” She feels that she is a pen but also a painting when dance; is drumsticks also a drum. Just like you are a part of art while doing on an art work.
New Jazz and Entertainment are Lai Lai favorite dancing styles. She likes the power and strength form Jazz; likes to play music by body from Entertainment. There are two teachers gave her great influences – WaWa and DinDin. They taught her how to enjoy in music and dance. Also affects the way Lai Lai listen to music in farther.
The most happiest thing for Lai Lai is feeling progress from improvisation exercise. One teacher told her, ”Imagine yourself as a performer. ” Lai Lai shared what she learned from dance, “If you dance with a song you are familiar, you would get better feeling and temple from this song. For me, I will try to figure out the attitude in this song and use my body to show lyrics, then add the temple in my dance. It’ really happy that I can dance while involving it and viewing it.”
Because of dance, Lai Lai can always have passion and desire in her life. She said that if one day she couldn’t dance anymore, she would lost the most intimate partners in her life.
