¡OH! ¡My hair!

When I woke up yesterday morning and I looked in the mirror I almost died!
My brother had been in my room at night, while I was sleeping.

When I was in front of the mirror and I looked my hair cut, I knew that my brother had done something at night.

He had been cut my hair!!! He had been planning this revenge for a long time because once I did something similar to it.

He had been running all morning and when he came home he was very tired. After lunch he slept a nap. While he was sleeping I went in his room and tied his hands and legs. When he woke up, he felt! So I knew he had been planning this revenge for me.



But I think revenge again... hahahahahaha

John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973)

He was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet (which later became the Royal Ballet) and the Stuttgart Ballet.
Cranko was born in Rustenburg in the former province of Transvaal, South Africa. As a child, he would put on puppet shows as a creative outlet. Cranko received his early ballet training in Cape Town under the leading South African ballet teacher and director, Dulcie Howes, of the University of Cape Town Ballet School. He then moved to London.
Following the expiration of the copyright on Arthur Sullivan's music in 1950, John Cranko choreographed the comic ballet Pineapple Poll, in collaboration with Sir Charles Mackerras, for a British Festival. Pineapple Poll was based on W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballad The Bumboat Woman's Story, with music exclusively by Sir Arthur Sullivan including music from various Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. His father, Herbert, a balletomane, spent a great deal of time with him in London.
John Cranko wrote and developed a musical revue Cranks, which opened in London in December 1955, moved to a West End theatre the following March, and ran for over 220 performances. With music by John Addison, its cast of four featured singers Anthony Newley, Annie Ross, Hugh Bryant and dancer Gilbert Vernon then transferred to New York. An original cast CD has recently been released. Cranko followed the format of Cranks with a new revue New Cranks opening at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith on 26 April 1960 with music by David Lee and a stellar cast including Gillian Lynne, Carole Shelley and Bernard Cribbins, but it failed to have the same impact.
Cranko also choreographed the ballet Onegin, an adaptation of the verse novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin set to music by Tchaikovsky (mainly The Seasons) orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze. Other full length ballets he choreographed are Romeo and Juliet, set to music by Prokofiev and The Taming of the Shrew.
Cranko choked to death after suffering an allergic reaction to a sleeping pill he took during a transatlantic flight. His mother, Grace, who was divorced from Herbert and lived in what was then Rhodesia, heard about his death from a radio broadcast. The ballet Voluntaries by Glen Tetley was created in the memory of John Cranko.
A full list of Cranko's ballet is here.
In my opinion, dancing has always been a feminine activity, but today things are changing.
Now it isn’t seen as bad as before, it was always related with women,and dancers who were men weren't well seen.
These things don't only happen with dancing, they are important in working life too, there are typically feminine jobs, like nurse. A few years ago only women were nurses. Formerly ideas were very chauvinist.
Nowadays things have improved a lot and lots of women have got jobs that only men could have years ago. But I think things have to change even more and I hope one day things will be much better for everybody.

by: Javier Portela Conde

...ONLY DANCE...

When I was five or six years old I played handball before I started to dance,but I felt uncomfortable and I decided to leave it.During this time I didn´t practise any sport.

I found my inner Billy Eliot when I was eight years old.My neighbour invited me to dance with her.I accept, but I was very shy.

In the first class I was very nervious and the teacher tried to relax me,she got it.In the second class I discovered that I could free my body and disconnect my mind from the exterior world.

In the third year I continued dancing. My friend knew that I danced and since that moment I felt discriminate.My friends ask me: "but is this a sport for men?"and I answered them:"I do it".They didn´t accept my decision.These comentaries weren´t an obstacle for me,I continued dancing.

The dancer´s world is difficult, because you have to put up with insults and sometimes you don´t have your family´s support. My parents supported me from the first moment.

Dancing was quite difficult for my parents bacause it´s expensive.I thought if I could save some money I would probably pay my dancing lessons.At the moment if I want to enjoy it I have to pay my technic lessons.

I want to increasing my dance, and learn "street dance and funky"!!.

by:Daniel Rodríguez Fernández

MIGUEL ANGEL ZOTTO

He grew up listening to Tangos with his grandfather,who was a dancer and with his father who was a dancer and an actor.

Miguel Ángel Zotto started dancing Tango in April 1986 in a show called "Tango Argentino".In 1998 he created the company "Tango For Two".

In 1991 M iguel Angel Zotto and Milena Plebs are invited to the opera in Houston to the choreography of Tango-opera.

In 1997 they shoned "a night of Tango"

In 2000 Miguel Angel Zotto had a new show "Zx2,Tango sinfónico".He was chosen the best dancer in the 20th century.

He was done a lot of wonderful choreografies: "Tiempos de la Cruz del Sur","Zx2","Tango of Two",etc.

WOMEN

Today women are in a good situation, in general. Some years ago it was different because many women were always at home and they couldn't have a job and earn a lot of money. Today there are some women who have an important job and they also have much power, but discrimination still exists.

I would like to be a hairdresser and I think I will not have problems for that;but if I wanted to be a lorry driver it would be different.

I'd like you to see this photo of Brigitte Bardot, the famous French actress and the first woman who wore a bikini. What a scandal at her time!

Written by Adrea Cardoso

Gipsy

In the Gipsy culture women must follow some absurd rules...

When they are single they can't have sexual relations because they must wait until they get married. They can't cut their hair and they can't go out either.

When a Gipsy woman gets married she has to undergo the "handkerchief testing". In my opinion, this is absolutely appalling and typical of thugs!

A married woman has to live with her husband's family;she has to do all the household chores and she can't give her opinion.

At Christmas or any other celebrations, women can't visit their families, so they have to stay with their husbands' families. Men are the bosses here.

The strange thing about all this is that women are sometimes more machist than men, mainly because their parents teach them that men are better than women since they are children, so they are born blind ! This is an absurd attitude, a male, chauvinist attitude.

But I don't agree..

I'm determined to break these rules; I'm going to show them that a woman can always manage to achieve what she wants.

Written by Sandra Jiménez Duval