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looosey · 5 months

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Lucy's DDR: What I'm up to

Improving dance is a stepwise function I feel, and I thought this semester was a plateau because of how busy I was with my schoolwork and new relationship. However, some things that I've been up to with Donk might change that.

#1. WOD

I performed this piece with my team at World of Dance Boston (the video is from the week before WOD at Mocha Move's RTA show):

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Footwork last semester taught me to count my music more, in order to be on time, and I think I started to think for myself more in this aspect. Now I'm thinking a lot about performance quality, like walking with purpose, facials, cleanliness, and head direction.

#2. Donk Show

Eeeeek. So this is actually coming up at the end of November (11/30, 12/1), so get your tickets this week at donk's instagram page here. I'm choreographing a piece and I've procrastinated all semester, which I lowkey am trying not to hate myself for. But with pressure, I'm churning out the material, and I think I'm balancing my vision with my skills as a dancer a bit more, which is good.

In general, I'm crunching in so much more practice this week, I think I'm getting faster at learning choreo. :) I still love dance a lot, and I just need to convince myself to get out into the studio more often. :0

#lucys-ddr #dance progress #college dance #hip hop #Youtube

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thefawnfallacy · 10 days

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Yuri on Ice was such a life changing anime, especially to have experienced in real time waiting for those episodes to drop every week. It was an open acknowledgment and love letter to queerness, to valuing and creating art, to loving yourself and loving those around you and it’s no surprise that it had such a large impact on those who watched it. Not to mention how stunning it was to be presented with an open letter to queer love during a time where same sex marriage and gender equality was still a very hot and controversial topic. It’s, in its own way, nestled itself into history.

It may not be in the way we all expected or hoped, but see you next level.

#it feels like we’ve only gone backwards in terms of progress #but that’s not what this post is about #yuri on ice #ice adolescence #viktuuri #victuuri #viktor nikiforov #yuuri katsuki #yuri plisetsky #phichit chulanont #christophe giacometti #otabek altin #mappa #end of an era #wow #I can thank this anime for my love of figure skating and my return to dance haha

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inklessletter · 6 months

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Baby.

Yeah, just--trust the very slow process with me, yeah?

#inklessletter #trust the process #steddie #dirty dancing redraw #dirty dancing #steddie fanart #fanart #stranger things #work in progress #wip #steve harrington #eddie munson #i just realized i never posted this one #sorry i lost my mind temporarily #i missed you so much #and these two #love you all

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aaeeart · 3 months

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I started working on this months ago and completely forgot I didn't finish it :') seriously gonna have to one of these days

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haveyouheardthisband · 4 months

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#Art Pop #Progressive Pop #Indietronica #Indie Rock #Alternative Dance #Math Pop #2010s #2020s #UK #poll

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pocketgalaxies · 2 years

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No thoughts?

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ectonurites · 11 months

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speaking of stephcass in Batgirls i'm still thinking about this. ur gonna have this moment and NOT let them kiss?

(Batgirls (2021) #17)

#haha what if we progressively got closer while we danced together and the narration compares the feeling to a kiss. but like platonically #grandpa max is god? i go to church now

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roachesinmyhair · 7 days

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do you like your neo peeled?

#this is a wip still but im dancing around in circles #spamton #spamton neo #my art #work in progress

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ongawdclub · 7 months

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Q u e e n

L a t i f a h

#queen latifah #hiphop #hip hop #progressive rap #rnb #soul #jazz #gospel #dance #melanin #blackgirlmagic

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pivsketch · 29 days

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back on my bullshit again-- i started this stardew villager sprite overhaul project like 8 years ago (2016!) and picked it back up recently. the great news (sarcasm) is that the game updates since then have given me twice as much work to do as everyone has cute little beach and winter outfits now? im going to endeavor to at least get shane done (#biased) but i did dream of getting to everyone. we'll see how far i get this time.

heres an elliott doing a silly dance because i saw the frames in his sheet and thought it was cute

#pixel art #stardew valley #publicly posting about this because i finished shane's regular sheet (wow!) so im making tangible progress #did you know the incapacitated 6 heart event shane sprite is in the sprite sheet for all of the UI. so is motorcycle sebastian.#and a dancing marnie?#get out of there you clowns #also shane sleeps with his shoes on. but in winter he sleeps barefoot. lmao? hashtag fun facts #i wanted to keep the heights but i might need to make the women slightly taller because they look goofy. w/e i'll cross that bridge later

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looosey · 11 months

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Lucy's DDR #1: I Love Dance

My parents and friends think I love to dance. They know without me saying it. In fact, a conversation I had with two NH Medlinks (i.e. my Desmond friend and his H4 friend) went like this:

H4 friend: Oh how do you know (NH4 girl 1) and (NH4 girl 2)? Do you dance? My friend: Does she dance? All she does is dance. H4 friend: Oh cool! Are you in ADT?

Which I found very fonny. No I am not. But alas, for the past two years till now, I have always been dancing, and I really really enjoy it, and I want to get better, and I think I do really love it!

But sometimes, it's hard to love it.

Today I want to talk about a big thing I see in dancers at MIT around me, which is that they have a very stressful relationship with dance. "I might quit all dance next semester," and "The MIT dance community is so toxic," and "I don't know if I want to do <xyz advanced team> next semester or just quit" are phrases I hear often from friends who always end up dancing anywhere from 3-9 hours a week.

They love it, but they hate it. The feelings are so extreme, I think, because dance is a social activity. You make friends, close friends, through dance troupe, ADT, or teams. But with dance, you're also auditioning, getting evaluated and cut, watching yourself side by side with others, being recorded, being talked about, and talking about others. It's a social activity.

And if you start thinking about how good your other peers are compared to you, the deep deep blackhole of dance-is-the-devil is slippery and treacherous. Despite them coming in with more experience, or putting in more hours than you at the expense of grades, sleep, or social life, or having been an athlete before, etc. All of my fellow friends who started dance in college, we've talked about this shared anxiety, but yet. We're all still dancing.

Dance. Dance. Four total semesters now. Why?

My favorite semester ever dance-wise was sophomore fall. Coming back from Korea, where I took a class a week at the famous 1Million and JustJerk dance studios, I was made pretty well aware that MIT was just a spec in the dance world. Thus, I was on my own journey to enjoy the art form and become professional grade good, whether or not MIT's competitive teams wanted me as a dancer did not matter. So, in September, I joined MissBehavior, did a DT dance, and took an MIT Theater dept. class in Hip Hop Dance History and Practice.

McKersin, the lecturer, taught us the history, shared the culture, opened my eyes to the Boston scene. He became the first person ever to tell me... "you need to practice" in an objective but well-meaning way. Previously, choreo workshops and Dance Troupe were fun and good to me, but in the vacuum of no-feedback-ever, I remained convinced that I was great at dancing, and thus was so confused all the time when I got rejected from competitive auditions. Now I was beginning to know.

I practiced freestyle dance and learned choreo from videos on my own, late into the night at BC dance studio. Recording myself, and gritting my teeth as I watched my own recordings. Yuck. Dumpster trash on fire, the stench coming from those videos.

But the way my dance progress became my own? So valuable to me. Thus, I improved.

I'm on a team now, and slightly deeper in the "dance as a social activity" thing both in MIT and the Boston community. Many times, I also struggle. I think I suck, look at that guy who probably only started this year he's so much cleaner than me. And that puts me in the worst bottom of the barrel mood for an entire day. Literally, makes me feel physical pain. But I never hate on dance. It's usually myself that I hate, which is not any better.

I write this on a special day: my first day ever being picked by a choreog in a workshop. You know? As the first subgroup to record? It means you're good. It was an affirmation that I'm doing okay, after a recent wave of self-hatred, actually. Even if I don't hate dance, I struggle a lot with comparing myself, and thinking I'm actually trash and not getting better, which is the root of my friends' problems too. I'm trynna overcome this and share a positive view of dance, like the energy of today's choreographer: it's fun to do and it's safe here.

This post is a reminder to future Lucy that actually, this journey has been one of great memories and progress. So, don't hate yourself, or the art. Be kind to yourself and others. Dance. Dance. Revolution.

#lucys-ddr #mit #college dance #dance slump #dance progress

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haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll · 6 months

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Tracklist:

To The Blade

Distant Past

Get To Heaven

Regret

Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread

The Wheel (Is Turning Now)

Fortune 500

Blast Doors

Zero Pharaoh

No Reptiles

Warm Healer

Bonus Tracks

We Sleep In Pairs

Hapsburg Lippp

President Heartbeat

Brainchild

Yuppie Supper

Only As Good As My God

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#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: everything everything #language: english #decade: 2010s #Art Pop #Indie Rock #Progressive Pop #Indietronica #Alternative Dance #New Wave #Math Pop

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briarrolfe · 2 months

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Our 78 year old Italian neighbour Josie might not remember my name, and may never get my pronouns right, but the thing is: We Are Besties and I am totally obsessed with her. She blasts disco music 24 hours a day. She chain smokes. She is so obsessed with Vegemite that she cut a holiday visiting family back home short because she was seized by Cravings. She took her first ever selfie with me. She flirts with my fiancé. Once I had to rescue her from her finding a lizard in her toaster. She drinks her first coffee of the day at like 4 am. Recently she told me “if anyone tries to take you away from me… I will kill them” with total seriousness and I fully reciprocate it. She is a constant source of chaos in our lives. I would do anything for her and I love her with all my heart

#josieposting #you don’t understand. she’s the best person on earth #she glares and smokes out the front while wearing all black and heavy eyeliner. my friends have asked if we live next door to a witch #she got fired from the arnotts factory in 1960 something because she stood up for an Aboriginal coworker… BEFORE SHE SPOKE ENGLISH #she put up string lights in her house because she liked that WE had them in OUR house #we are going to buy her a record player for her birthday #she is so obsessed with how Charlie does the ironing. she’s not really across how queers work. she’s like wow… he’s helping you…#she was wearing miniskirts out dancing until age 50 like. wow… legend…#she also voted yes in the referendum. constantly unexpectedly progressive woman #she recently asked a new neighbour what his religion was because she didn’t want to say ‘god bless you’ unless it was appropriate 🥲🥲🥲#COBURG BABY!!!!

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shanblackwood · 1 year

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