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December 08, 2005
Arts and Things....
I am back from the road and trying to catch up on my life as I know it. Sometimes I just feel like I am always running...running to catch a plane, running to hang out with friends, and of course running to read applications. It is that time of year when we, admission counselors, begin the late night and full weekends of reading applications. I can honestly say that the fall passed by rather quickly and it seems strange to reviewing applications already. But, it is here and I must live in the moment.
In the midst of travel and reading this semester, I decided to join a dance collective here at Case called MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective). It is a dance group that is open to all Case students, faculty, and staff, as well as people from the community. I participated last semester and enjoyed it immensely. Early on, I was considering pariciping this fall but I thought with travel and everything else that was going on with me it would be too much. Ultimately, I decided to do it and am a better person for it.
MaDaCol usually consists of three pieces and I was in the piece entitled "Desperate Cry, Desperate Search". It was a piece dedicated to the voices and thoughts of the people that lived and are still living through the traumatic effects of Hurrican Katrina. We danced to a song by Nina Simone who is recognized as "the high priestess of soul" and the music was very appropriate. It was a very moving piece and I was touched not only by the dance but by the words of the song as well.
The choreographer, DeWitt Cooper, was trying to invoke the feelings and sentiment of the people in New Orleans and trying to make people realize that this is still an issue. Even though you may not hear about it on the radio or read about it in the newspaper everyday people are still suffering and we should not forget their stuggles.
I had so much fun that I will probably do it again next semester. There are several of my colleagues in the admission office that are also a part of MaDaCol. I won't call them out but I know they enjoy it as much as I do. So, you see the life of admission counselor can be filled with fun and exciting things. We are writers, dancers, artists, authors....we are everywhere and many of us still have on our dancing shoes!
Posted by cxc70 at December 8, 2005 09:30 AM
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