Belgium 4

Listen to Belgium 4, a 38-year-old woman from Mons, Belgium. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 38

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1969

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mons, Belgium

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: dancer

EDUCATION: university (bachelor of arts degree)

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject has spent time in Munich, Germany, and in California, in the United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Her first language is French, and she learned English in elementary school.

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RECORDED BY: Ryan Wagner (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/11/2007

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I guess it’s a passion I’ve been doing since I’m little. I started when I was 7, just for fun. I come from a family where my mom was a ballet dancer and a ballet teacher, so my oldest sister was also a dancer, so I was around it a lot, and it’s just a passion, I just love it.  There is different methods, I mean there is a lot of method, you know. You have the Cecchetti method, you have the French method, you have the Russian method, they are pretty much all similar. I mean, they are, the steps are the same, you know, and the alignment, the placement of the dancer, all of that, is the same. The technique in itself is the same, but the style is going to be different from technique to technique. So like, for example, in Cecchetti, you move the arm out a little bit, they are rounded, the head position is softer, like, if you take the Russian method, then the head is going to be much sharper; it’s gonna be turned and raised, so there’s a much sharper position. So, it’s little nuances and differences like that make the style a little bit different. But, if you’re trained in Cecchetti, or if you’re trained in, you know, Russian method, or if you’re trained in the French method, you should be able to dance anywhere and switch methods. It’s just a switch of style. A difference in the arm and the head positions. Americans come in a mix of a little bit of everything. I trained in different methods, I was trained in Belgium, and I started with the Russian method, and then when I went to Mudra, we had a mix of teachers, so I had some teachers that were doing the Russian method; I had some teachers that were American, so they were more doing the American method; I had some French, so I had a mix, a little bit of everything.

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