Gerardo Garrido

 I am very excited to be finishing this course, I think the course was a very pleasant experience. Even though I was not able to be there much during the classes, the blogs and homework made me think and try to speak in English. I really like the use of the blog, I feel that it is a very didactic and practical way to interact with the language, besides the fact that the course is online, it enhances and helps even more the understanding of English.  I think the aspect that I need to work on the most is speaking or trying to converse, I am a person who usually has a hard time speaking and the mere thought of speaking and also trying to speak in another language that is not mine completely puts me off. That's why I think that's the aspect I need to work on the most.  Outside of the classes I really use English much less than I would like to, I only use it to watch series, listen to music and very rarely to communicate. 

 I think that when I first saw the curriculum for my career I did not fully understand it, and now that I am in my career I still do not understand it. In my opinion, there are areas that really do not serve much or at least they are areas that are not very useful for what I want to do in my career as a dancer. Another issue is that the duration of the career is very long, all content and subjects can be easily summarized in about 3 years, as is done in other dance schools around the world. However with covid these contents have been dilating even more, either because we have fewer classes or simply are things that can not be done virtually.  In relation to infrastructure, I think we need a new building with the real capacities and dimensions to have spacious dance halls, and many more rooms in order to not adapt spaces to create rooms, but to build them from the beginning focused on dance.  The use of technology does not seem very relevant to me, although the new acquisi...

How difficult it is to think about this situation, I had never thought about it.  But I would say that I would like to travel to a place very similar to the one named by the miss, a place where we can be ourselves, free of stereotypes, without discrimination, a friendly world where dissidence and especially women are given importance.   I think I would like this to be in the near future, because these are changes that have been asked for and fought for years and we still don't see real changes.  If I were asked to stay there, I would definitely choose to stay, because I believe this is the world we all dream of.  A much better world is built with awareness, empathy and respect. Where animals are treated as sentient beings. Where there is no pollution and we are free people. That is the place I want to travel to, and travel to as soon as possible. 

I think I am very clear about the job I want for my future, which is to be a professional dancer and work in a dance company. I imagine it fantastic and full of challenges, I have always been a person who fights for his dreams, and you can dance in a company more than being my job, it would be a dream for me. Obviously to work as a dancer you need to work indoors (or most of the time). I would love to be able to travel around the world dancing, getting to know cultures and learning from many dancers around the world.   The best thing about being a dancer is that I don't need to be in an office, because I'm very restless and it's hard for me to sit for so long haha.  To be a dancer I am studying a Bachelor of Arts with a major in dance, which helps me to be able to get that dream job. Despite not finishing my degree at the university, I have already had the opportunity to work in a company as a dancer, something that encouraged me even more to want to dedicate myself to danc...

 I think the person I would like to meet is Maria Khoreva, a 21 year old Russian dancer. My desire to meet her comes because she is the youngest dancer to become a soloist at the Mariinsky Ballet.  She looks like a very disciplined person and passionate about what she likes, that's something I highlight and try to imitate from her. Khoreva was born in St. Petersburg, and at the age of 10 she entered the famous Russian ballet school Vaganova.  She managed to enter the professional Mariinsky Ballet Company at the age of 18 and signed as an ambassador of the famous Nike brand. I highlight her personality, perseverance and the work she puts into her career. I hope one day I can meet her and see her dance live, which must be a great show and truly a luxury.  Maybe the world of dance will bring us together at some point in life haha xd.  Bye.  

 I remember perfectly well that day. It was the third performance of a dance show with which we toured the Maule region. I remember that for that tour we had a creative process of a year to create the work, after that many hours of rehearsal to achieve what we wanted.  The day was very sunny in 2017 and we had to dance in the square of the town of Romeral, a town located north of Curico. People began to arrive very early to see us and enjoy the play. By the time the show started, the square was full of people and mostly children. At the end, a little boy came up to me with his mother to ask me for a picture, since he loved the way I danced and he told me that he really liked to dance and that his dream was to be a dancer. At that moment I was very excited, because I felt that I had been the inspiration of someone else, and even more of a child, which made me remember when I was little and I just liked to move and jump from one side to another. It was a very beautiful moment an...

The truth is that I have only been to one concert in my life. It was Francisca Valenzuela concert, I think it was in 2017, I don't remember very well. I heard on the radio that Francisca Valenzuela would do a concert in my city (Curicó), I immediately told my mom that we should go and we bought tickets. Just that year I had started to listen to Francisca's music a lot, so I was very excited to listen to her music haha xd.  The day of the concert we arrived very early, and we managed to be among the first rows. Without doubt it was an incredible experience, since Francisca Valenzuela played almost all the songs alone with her piano, which made if feel very intimate and exciting. My mom loved it and she remembers this day when we went. I think being with my mom was very nice, because for both of us it was our first concert and we enjoyed it very much. I would love to go to many concerts, especially Illapu, one of my favorite Chilean bands. I hope that soon there will be concert a...

 It is very difficult to choose just one country xd, because I would love to travel all over the world. If I had to choose one it would be Israel, but only because the dance company I like is there. The truth is I don't know much about the country, only that they are one of the leaders of immunization against covid hahaha xd, and I've seen on TV that they have some conflicts with some countries. I would like to be there and be part of Batsheva Dance Company, because it is my favorite dance company, so it would be a dream to be there. I'm not lying that I'm a little scared, because of the conflicts in the country, however I think it is a very different country from Chile and I would like to know and learn from this culture. I would like to live in Israel, but not forever. I dream of living in a European country and continue my life there.

I think this is something that people always ask when they know that someone studies arts or in my case dance, they always question how art contributes to make the world a better place.  I believe that art and dance in particular helps people to be more conscious with their bodies, to feel free and to be better people.  I also believe it helps people escape from their realities and simply enjoy movement, movement which for me is life. It's hard to think about how I would help this change, I think I would do it in trying to empower people, to train people to have a better quality of life and better health.  I also believe that art helps to express feelings and show social inequalities, looking at it that way I believe that art is highly political, and being an artist is a political position.  It is interesting what is emerging and how this question is posed, because I think there is always a different answer and that is beautiful, because it means that we are changing...

Juliano Nunes, born in 1990 in Brazil. He studied at the Brazilian Conservatory of Dance in Rio de Janeiro, furthered his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim and was accepted as an apprentice at the Karlsruhe Ballet. His professional career began the following year, when he was hired by the company.  Juliano has worked as a choreographer for the Theater Opera de Paris and the National Ballet of Canada. He directed Maria Khoreva, soloist dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia a nd before the pandemic he created a piece for the AcostaDanza company in Cuba.  I like him very much as a dancer and choreographer, because he mixes classical ballet technique with contemporary dance. Something I really like and try to do when creating or dancing. I also think he is a reference for me because he is Latin American and I feel a little closer to him. 

The truth is that I really like photography. Since I was a kid I always liked to take pictures of everything I saw, I used an old camera of my sister's haha. When I was 15 years old my parents gave me a semi-professional camera with which I still take pictures, working I was able to buy different lenses to improve and experiment in photography.  This photograph means a lot to me, he was a boy who was dancing in a school performance, and in his face you can see the nervousness before dancing. For me it was very meaningful because I felt that he was going through the same thing that happens to me before dancing. I took the picture in 2018 and since then it is my favorite picture. I am very interested in portrait photographs of people, I feel like you can see their story through their face. 

Hi everyone. Choosing a favorite food is a bit difficult haha because I like a lot of things, like pizza, sushi and many other foods. but to be honest my favorite is french fries. I really think I could eat them every day, I like them a lot because almost everything can be accompanied with fries hahaha. plus they can be cooked in many ways.  I actually eat a lot of fries, at least once a week. So together with my boyfriend we made an investment and bought an air fryer xd, to make them a little healthier and not feel so guilty after eating them.  I think since I was little I love fries, in fact every time I travel to my parents house, my mom waits for me with fries because she knows I love them haha.  Bye, remember to drink water. <3 

Hello! Today i am going to talk about my favorite piece of technology. It was difficult for me to choose one because i have many technological devices but i'm going to choose my cell phone. I have my cell phone for three years and i use it to send messages, listen to music, take pictures and to see my social networks but now we are in quarantine and i use it more for to see my family and my friends and we communicate by video call. Now, that we are in quarantine i can do more thing, then i use my cell phone for watch my classes, learn to cook and other things. I think that i use my cell phone all day and now more because i need communicate with my family. I like my cell phone because i can do a lot of things and i think my life would be very difficult because i am very used to using my cell phone.

Since I was little I always wanted to be an astronaut haha because I liked everything related to the planets and the sky.  I always liked dancing very much, in fact all my memories as a child are dancing or doing things on stage and when I was in high school I decided to study dance, I really had no other study options, because it was the only thing I imagined studying. I decided to study dance because it is what I like to do and what changed my life. My experience at the university has not been very good, because of the three years I've been studying I've gone one semester to college haha. But I have met many wonderful people and my best friend, who because of the pandemic I haven't seen her for more than a year :( Bye.

 Post 1: My autobiography  Hello everyone, it is really hard for me to talk about myself but I will try this time. I'm Gerardo Garrido, I'm 21 years old an dI was born in Curicó (a city in the seventh region) on March 29, 2000. I studied all my elementary and high school, a catholic school. I don't think my catholic education helped me because I'm an atheist haha. When I was 10 years old I started practicing artistic gymnastics, I was training for 6 years, I managed to be selected nationally Ann win a South American gymnastics in Uruguay. When I was 16 years old I decided to retire because I had a serious injury in my left ankle and I also wanted to start dancing (something I had always liked) so when I graduated from high school I went to study at a dance school in Santiago, but I didn't stay long and I retired. In 2019 I started studying dance at the University of Chile, and here I am haha, dancing from home. During the year I live in Santiago with my boyfriend in...