E4_ARTES_2021-2S

Since I was a little child I have imagined my future life as an artist. I took dance classes since I was 3 years old. I explored drama.  I attended an artistic school to find out my artistic preferences. I studied piano for about 3 years. But, at some point in my life I decided to be a dancer and since then I have been working hard to get my goal. When I was a high school student I combined my regular studies with ballet classes. Then I explored different styles and techniques so as to have a wider approach. I always have had family support although it has been common listening people saying that "as an artist you are going to starve to death". I am quite clear about that. I am ver conscious that it´s not going to be easy and I know that there are some paralel jobs related to dance, I can be a teacher, a yoga instructor, a coreographer, or even a researcher, but my most dear dream  it´s to be a contemporary dance performer. I imagine myself dancing in different stages in Chil...

  In common life, it is a challenge to me to get up quickly and run to the subway station to arrive on time to classes very early in the morning and repeating this everyday of the week. But when you are at the university everything is a kind of perfect: meeting people, classmates and teachers, making friends, learning new stuff, and so on.   But nothing like that has ocurred since I am a pandemic university student. This is my first year as a dance performer student. My daily routine is to get up early and turn my computer on, to pray that my internet service functions and to ask my family and pets to keep quiet and avoid using some common spaces at home. I still don´t know my whole class. I asume that my teachers pay some atention to my performances. I have very shy classmates that never talk or turn their cameras on. I have virtual classes, one of them whith more than 300 people, it´s perfect if you are not ready to socialize. I think I´m not a real university student y...

As far as I am aware, I have been always using technologycal devices. I remembered that I always had access to a PC. My favorite pastimes were playing computer games. For instance, instead of having a doll house, I enjoyed my Sims family buildings😝 I also used to play ordering food by a phone call instead of preparing it in toy pots. I was very happy when at the age of six I recibed my first camera, I enjoyed taking pictures and recording videos in all events. I had hundreds of files since then. Referring to school, technology always has been present too, I learned, even my first words, through spanish software called Abracadabra. And as I used to watch much more TV it was frecuent to use words such as: "emparedado", "retrete", or "biberón" with a curious accent. Rarely I used paper for my school task, nor copybooks or craft paper presentations, I took notes using my phone and I made PPT presentations. It´s very useful to keep organized files rather than ...