March 15, 2018: 2 Hours 15 minutes

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3:45-6:00

Today will be the first day my associate Lola and I will be teaching at Cali. We had began choreographing this dance before at a previous rehearsal, but we worked on it again to make it perfect. We met up at Lola's house and began putting the final touches on the dance. It turned out just how we wanted it and began to make our way to teach at the school.

Lola and I began teaching the Cali kids their dances for their musical. This was such an amazing experience being able to choreograph and teach dance, since it is something I love. We began by introducing ourselves and talking about our dance backgrounds. From there we jumped straight into teaching them the dance we had prepared from them. Most of the kids had little to no dance experience so it was interesting to teach them and they learned it so well. These kids are very fast learners and executed our dance beautifully. Our dance is a modern piece and it portrayed the idea of "society" ignoring someone and isolating them, but then capturing them making them want to fit in with everyone in the world. Everyone was trying to make this girl similar to them, that was the inspiration for this part of the play. This play has some deep ideas and Lola and I worked hard to put each aspect of the story into the dance. It was reliving to hear it was exactly what Hector imagined. It was such an amazing experience being able to share my love of dance with others. Next week we are coming back to review the dance and also go over a dance they had previously learned.


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