Video II. A job I would like to do in the future.

Here's the video. I tried to do my best. 

https://youtu.be/14PcGddZDJ8

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Postgraduate Studies

I have to admit that when i read the instructions of what we have to do in this post, I went blank. I honestly didn't know what to do becaus i haven't thougth in a postgraduate course yet. I was just thinking about finishing my program. 

And I started looking for information about this. I found different pages from other countries that recommend these courses, but none of them caught my attention. I trie to look for one that was related with dance and the health of the body. But long time ago I was considering study kinesiology after this program and focus this area on the care of dancers. Maybe later I'll find some postgraduate course with those characteristics, but i'm going to focus on this to write here.

I want to study that program or something related with that because intrigues me so much. I really want to know more about how the body internally works. With my experience there are few people specialized on a dancers body. It works differently than an athlete. But well, I tried to do something. I prefer to study in Chile or travel to a country that speaks spanish because I think that health's area is difficult to understant in another language. And a subject that I would like to study is "Neuroscience". I would like to know how the brain works on the body. And finally I would like to have this course on site. but with this stiuation I prefer the online system for theorical subject and on site for practical things.

We don't know what will happen in the future, so as I said at the beginning, I want to finish my program first.

Video I. A subject that I enjoyed at school.

Here’s the video. I hope you understand the things that I tried to say. I did my best.

 https://youtu.be/hOPZZohKymo

My future job

Most of the time I wonder if I'll be able to work on what I want or how I'm gonna start. Do I really need a point of my life to know if that's the time to start working on what I want? Because I've worked in other things, but that's not the same.

The job that I would like to have is giving dance classes. I think maybe I'd teach in small groups on my city. Expand this kind of classes from small places to big ones it's a goal that needs to be achieved. I'd love if people understand that movement classes are for themselves, for their body, for their healthy and you don't have to be ashamed about what other people think, do it for yourself. I think that's the message that i would share. After that, I would like to study abroad and try to look for a job in a dance company to increase my knowledge and bring it to my city to share. Because when I saw someone giving classes of things that someone few know it makes me very happy. It makes me think that there is people trying to expand the dance knowledge.

Maybe the salary isn't good in Chile for arts in general, but I have to create contacts and networks. Arts are collective. So we have to support each other. It wil depend directly on what i do. 

But first of all i have to finish my program after all the dreams that i said before. I'm still thinking about what major I would like to take. There are 2 ooptions. Pedagogy and interpretation. I like both. For now I'm thinking in taking the first one because it isn't easy to teach. But if you have motivation to learn and share, and you as a student see that in your teacher, you know that it's a good one.

What are you really into?

I was thinking that all my days were like a routine, because sometimes it makes me feel better. But sometimes that routine makes me feel bored too. So I tried to experiment different things around my house (it didn't work)

I've enjoyed cooking vegan recipies, but more than cooking, knowing the nutritional intake of the food. How can I eat it and how all the ingredients helps to me to make me feel stronger. Because you can be vegan but that doesn't mean that all the food is healthy. You have to educate yourself as much as you can and you'll realize that it's easier than you thought. There are things that all the people should know about food, where it comes from, how it is produced, what are all the things that appears on the labels, how to read the nutritional table and why it's better use natural things buying to local workers if you can or using the food that you can find in your home or just cook and grow your own vegetables and fruits. 

How you feed is very important on how you live and how you are conscious of what it is around you. Only your actions will change things. Choosing your food is political.

The most embarrassing thing i'm willing to admit

Thinking about something that happened to me was really difficul. In this moment I don't remember too much things.

But there's a thing that I always remember i don't know why, I think that it isn't so embarrassing enough.

We all pass for the phase when we were little and have a kind of love in the shool, right? I was 6 years old and i liked a guy, only because he called the attention of the class doing stupid things (now I realize that clearly it wasn't love). So, I always look at him and my face was like.. dumb? Almost drooling, as you can see in the movies. Well, one day in the class while the teacher was talking, i was sending imaginary kisses to him. I'll describe the action. Me, putting my hands on my lips, giving a kiss and then I kept them away from me and pointing to him (as if he were received them), crazy girl. The teacher ask me what I was doing and then i realised that my head was in the world of love haha. I didn't know what to do so I didn't say a thing. I just blushed and felt the worst.

Luckily, I don't think that he ever knew that I was in love with him, poor little girl of me. The other day I saw him because is my neighbor. We said hello, and follow our paths. This is not a love story. 

My best concert

I think that one of my favorite hobbie is going to concerts and the best one was in November 2015. We saw Pearl Jam in the National stadium. I said "we" because I went with my mom from Concepcion to Santiago. She wanted to see them too.

They play alternative rock music. The Eddie Vedder's voice is wonderful and the guitar solos are the best part. We enjoyed it so much in spite of we've bought the cheapest place because it was full of people around us jumping, singing and screaming, everyone in the same tune. There was a moment where the singer drank wine and said to all of us in spanish "El vino está para chuparse los bigotes, un manjar" (maybe he was drunk). The euphoria was huge. I'll never forget that.

It felt so good. being in another country, like an adventure. Trying to get to the stadium without knowing anything it's exhausting, though, but it really woth it. It sounded good.

I had a nice moment with my mom singing together and even we were far away the music felt close.

A country I would like to visit

I think is like a dream but I would like to go to Norway or nordic countries, because I've seen a lot of videos and images from there and the nature it seems really beautiful. Also I saw a tv serie that it's from Norway and I fell in love with the language. I know some basic words of it but I don't know much of the country. I just love how they speak and the landscapes that I saw online. 

So that's what I would like to do there, learn the language and visit different places, like the fjords (in the picture you can see the Geiranger fjord).  I even think that I would work or live there if life allows me. I always think that I don't want to stay in Chile because of the vision of the arts, but sometimes I prefer to stay here to give the importance that deserve. Sadly, thinking in the future now it isn't a priority for me, so i just let the idea as a good idea for someday. You'll never know.

SOME REFLECTIONS

I have to say that this year has gone so bad haha. Just think about think in this moment it's nothing. But I forgot that this year in january and february we were in a "normal" situation with real holidays. 

So some of the good things that have happened to me is traveling trough some parts of the south of Chile, one week with my family and after that backpacking two weeks with a friend. It's a nice memory.

But a lot of other things that have happened, well, they haven't been so well. I was living in Santiago and  i couldn't work anymore so, I have to come back to my original city and it was weird start again because I had gotten used to being alone. Another bad thing is the university, can you imagine dance classes online? It's really difficult and talk about that it makes me sad and nostalgic.

Thinking about my achievements, i don't know, I laughed but then I thought in myself. My emotions have envolved and I allowed myself to speak more or think more in me, my body, my diet. I've learned to take care of me. Also I have strengthened my body with exercises, but mainly the first things that i said are constant achievements.

Finally, this year it's a roller coaster but the most extreme. No one knows how to handle it and no one understand how others tries to hadle it.

YOUR FAVORITE BOOK

Well, looking in the books that I have in pdf, I realise that I don't have a favorite author, I have three; Jane Austen, Virginia Wolf and Stephen King. 

I have to say that I love horror books but I hate horror movies, it's a weird thing but I prefer imagine things by myself than imagine by anything else. I also like romantic books but with old context, they're more interesting and questionable. I like feminism, gender and social books as well, and a lot of other kind of books.

"Jane Eyre" is my favorite book, I read it when i was finishing school and it open my mind in a beautiful way. It was written by Charlotte Brontë but in her time she has to use a man's name to publish, stupid thing, no?. I hope you could read it sometime if you want to know the life of an orphan girl and her good and bad adventures. An opposite book that I like is "The Shining" by Stephen King, it has a really good horror story. I love it.

The last book that I read was "King Kong theory" by Virginie Despentes. I totally recommend it. It's about feminism from the experience of actions that still normalize on this years that some people can't see or just not allowed to see for themselves.

Lately I haven't read a lot, because I wanna think to outside and when I read my thoughts go inside of me and mostly stay in my mind. Sometimes i like it, sometimes I don't. But if you want to read some of the books that I told you, good!.

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A SUBJECT YOU'VE ENJOYED STUDYING THIS SEMESTER

I haven't had a lot of subjects this semester, so it's weird. But one of the subjects that i like most is Anatomy.

Now that I was thinking on the way that we have the classes, it's not common but according to the context, strangely it is. We join with a link to Zoom, and the class start. The teacher speaks while we're watching a power point, So we listen the things that he says and if we have a question we can open the microphone and ask him. 

First we saw the general things of the limbs (could be from the upper or lower body, it depends of the class) and then we focus on the osteology (bones), arthrology (joints) and myology (muscles). Also we analyse the movements depending of the part of the body that we are studying, how it moves, from where and with what. It's a deep content.

And that's why I like this subject because we focus on all the movements and parts of the body. Besides with that information we discover the possibilities of how we can move the body from inside to outside, not only from a superficial action. It is a very important thing and really interesting too.

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YOUR BUCKET LIST

Well, I think I only did a bucket list in the new year when I was little. I wrote the things that I wanted to do in the year, then I buried them in the yard and finally I just had to wait until somethig happen. A belief that my mom told me once.

It's hard for me to know what I want to do in a near future because I usually don't plan things. I like to do things depending on the moment. But I've been thinking in some activities. Between them I want to travel a lot. I want to know Chile from north to south or festivities (specially the Torres del Paine or Tirana's party in the north) and go to Norway too. Also learn lenguages is somenthing that I wish to know so much, like norwegian, french, sing lenguage, mapudungun, among others. I would like to have my own house, give classes and give to my parents all that they deserve. 

I think that having a house i'ts difficult to achieve but not impossible because I like being changing the places where I live, but I hope someday have one place just for me. Also, I've been learning norwegian on my own and i learned a little of mapudungun last year. I've traveled to the south but I still don't know everything.

I feel like this activities only depends on me, besides, I enjoy doing things alone. Maybe i would like to travel with friends to anywhere, backpacking.

And well, finally everyday I'm thinking in something new to do but things happen too. They are out of our hands, so we don't know what can be happening in a while.

WHO IS A PERSON/EXPERT ON YOUR FIELD THAT YOU ADMIRE?

I dedicate myself to the area of dance, so i'm going to talk about someone's work that I admire.

Ohad Naharin, is a dancer and contemporary choreographer from Israel. He participated dancing with Martha Graham and also he was dancer and future director of the Batsheva Dance Company since 1990 until 2018. He has created a lot of long pieces of dance with a messages and also he developed the "Gaga" lenguage, where the purpose it's having a somatic experience with your body beyond of your strenght and techniques.  

You have to experiment with your abilities without seeing you in a mirror, so you can feel the movement from inside and bring them out without worry about what the other says. You are testing yourself. ("Furo" below the paragraph)

And that's why I like his work too, because he focus on the dancers to improve their movemets with an efficient work and the practice with the technique it's really nice. You can even feel like you were a child just doing the things that the teacher says to you and working with what you're thinking about. ("Last work" below this paragraph)

Here in the images i´m going to let you some of his works with the company. I think that some of them are online if you want to see them.  ("Decadance" below)

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A PHOTOGRAPH YOU LIKE

Usually I don't like too much that people take pictures of me, I prefer to take pictures of them.

This pictures was taking by a friend of mine. We went backpacking to the Lleulleu lake in the south of Chile since 2nd to 14th of March from this year. And mainly shows the lake and me. I was sitting in a bay, playing the ukelele, singing and watching the sunset. You can see the reflection of the threes with the sky and clouds on the lake too.

I like this picture because I was happy and the place were alone and very peaceful. Also was an adventure get to that place only with some food, a tent, and the desire of travel. I've never walked for so long until a car wanted to take us anywhere. Remembering is nostalgic but it's nice to know that I could go out before the quarantine start.
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"TV SHOWS AND SERIES"

Tv shows and series are a world. I have a list of them but i haven't seen all the series in the list because there are many and always are coming out more of them! So, like i said, it's a world.

I don't have a favorite serie, but i was thinking in one that i really like to watch no matter what, "Friends". I like it because the episodes are not too long and change everytime even if they have a history. It always has something new to show and I laugh with the simple humor, i don't need nothing else.

I would like to see "Vis a Vis". My friends are always recomnending it. I think it seems good and cause me curiosity. I hope I could see it someday.

And finally, if I had to recommend a tv show or a serie, I would recommend "Dark". I think is an intense serie and it has a deep argument of time with the life and when you finish it you will ask yourself how are we existing. Also, another season is coming out soon. So i'm excited.


Have you seen any of that series? And if you don't, I hope you could see one of them.
Enjoy your series!
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POST 3 >> MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY

Considering that anything that is made for the human is a technology piece, I could choose a lot of things, that's why is diffcult.

Anyway, I think is my electric guitar. I got it when I had my first job being a child, so i wanted to give me a gift, because, why not?. I even thought that I could collect many of them, but i wasn't really thinking.

Well, it's a little bit obvious how I use it. I play it. I make music. I experiment whit sounds and I play songs that I like when I have time of course, it's part of my hobbies. Sometimes it happens that I have a lot of things to do when I'm studying but I can't focus for a long time while I'm in home and I go for I walk (inside my house) looking for things that I can do to distract myself. And there is it. My guitar looking at me. And it's highly probable that I play it when I don't want to do all the stuff that I have to do, as well. Maybe I use it three times a week, but i don't know, it depends of what I should do.

I like it because it's an object that keep you focus. You can listen music while are you playing. You can mix sounds and also you are constantly learning.

Finally, I think that life would be boring if i didn't have my guitar. Life would be flat, like I line. But i think that I would tried to look for something else to do. Probably the music that I listen to, it wouldn't exist or even I would question the ways to do music. It's weird thinking about it.

And that's all, enjoy what you can get or whatever you can have in your house.
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POST 2 > WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS CAREER/STUDY PROGRAMME?

Hello everyone, today i'm going to tell about my dreams, ambitions, options and feelings during my existence after school.

I really don't remember what would have liked to do when i was a child, maybe a traditional career.
But I asked to my mom and she told me that in every moment of the day i was walking around with a scissor and a brush, so my dream job as I child was bocoming a hairdresser and also I had the habit of dancing in every part of my house. Always.

Now, when I had to choose a career to get into the university, i had other options. Between them was kinesiology, languages translation or environmental engineering. It sounds weird, isnt't it? Compared on what i'm doing today. But that were some options if i wouldn't have been selected to dance career. I wouldn't be here writing this.

And I made this decision because it always was my first option and i was selected between a lot of people auditioning so i said, "there's something in me, maybe, it's a sign". And here i am. But being in the university has been a quite difficult for emotional and money things. It's been exhausting. There's a lot of problems outside and inside the institution that affect the work of the art proffesionals, our teachers. So we can't, as students and future workers of art, stay there as if nothing was happening. They deserve a decent contract and regular payment and sometimes the university forget that. And that's when we decide to stop activities and classes to support them until we get an answer and a solution.
That's why being at the university has been difficult, because the art in Chile is difficult. And every single situation is different dependig the person and their contexts.

It's complicated to think in a job. It's an unclear future. But I would like to have a job where I can teach, being a teacher, but not in Santiago. I hope I could take all that I'm knowing to other cities or participate in some dance company. But as I said, it's unclear.

And that's all for now, i wouldn't know what to say or what I will do because, well, i don't know the future so i can change my mind in any moment.
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POST 1 > MY AUTO BIOGRAPHY

Hello, my name is Vivian Moreno and this is a post where I'm going to tell you a few things about me.

I'm from Concepción and I live there until I got 18 years old, then i went to live in Santiago, just for my studies because there's no other country that have the dance career. Now I'm 20 and I'm studying in the Universidad de Chile, I think. There's a global virus wandering and it suppose that we can't go outside, so I'm far away and most of the people are studing or working online, but unfortunately not all of them. So I've discover things that I can do staying in my home or simply do it more often when I have nothing to do. My hobbies.

I like to do a lot of things but I´ll tell you some of them. I like to read, mostly terror gender, novels or philosophical stuff. Also another hobbie could be that I like to discover new vegan recipes to cook whenever I can but sometimes I just prefer to do one of this two things. Listening music, anything that sounds in the radio or random music in my phone. Or watch a tv show with my mother while my dad is sleeping for being tired or working. Sometimes I just lay in my bed looking at my ceiling until my brother comes to my bedroom just for buthering me.

So here you can read a few things about me and soon you will know a little bit more of my life, maybe.

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