The school changed name during our time there
(and I think it might have changed again since, but I’m not sure…)
June 11th, 2010, I graduated from The University of Dance and Circus.
It’s been 10 whole years since I got my Bachelor of Arts in Dance Pedagogy. Feels like yesterday but also an entire eternity ago. And I haven’t seen most of my classmates since then which is really sad. It would have been so nice to see them all today, but I live far away from them plus you know, there’s this virus thing going on in our world. But I hope they are all doing ok ♥
I have many many photos from various things from my time at the University. This week I have looked at so many of them, I have laughed a lot cause I remember what we did or what we said or what happened that day of the picture. I also watched the video from our last performance we did, a performance we put together only like a week before. I laughed and I cried. It was nice to sit down and remember my time with them. A small class of around 20 people; some leaving, some joining and some exchange students coming and going (including myself studying in Portugal for one semester) during our three years. They are all wonderful people, great teachers and creative artists.
After a ballet class in first year, there are four exchange students and one teacher in this pic, and it’s missing our folk dance classmates
Waiting for the subway to go to something called StreetStar
Class photo of fall 2008, our 2nd year
(most of us decided to shake our heads when the photo was taken,
there’s also a circus student intruder in this photo)
In year two we worked in groups and went on tour to perform and teach for a week.
Me and my group went to Falkenberg since 2 of us were born and raised there
In one of the smaller studios after school planning my classes
Our last performance was called En Pedagogisk Shuffle
The music was put on shuffle for every performance, so we didn’t know what order each dance number would be. The ending applause could end up in the beginning, we added a human rock paper scissor segment a few times, we invited someone in the audience to a fika, the audience was invited to a karaoke of the song 9 to 5, modern dance, flamenco, folk dance, ballet, dance with laptops, funny dance, serious dance…you name it, we had it all in this shuffle performance:) And there were no curtains so we changed clothes to each number on stage and we had lots of different costumes just for fun in between and sometimes we didn’t have time to change out of them. It was an awesome performance!
(Photo above by Per Bjorklund)
(3 performance photos were taken by my dad)
The second year students organized a lovely graduation party for us dance and circus students.
They had made a hall of fame leading to the studio where we had dinner:)
This last photo is Graciette’s not mine, but I wanted to include it since it makes me so happy.
It’s from our graduation