Analyzing Pina Bausch One Of The Most Influential

Immediately after we are born, we start picking up sounds; the sound of our mother’s voice, the music playing in the elevator on the way to the car, and the happy cheers from a small child seeing their new sibling for the first time. We are always listening–picking up on conversations not meant for our ears, eavesdropping on the gossip of the adult world, and finding the meaning in the portentous silence. From all these auditory stimuli, we piece together the world around us to better understand what is happening to us, around us, and the secret happenings that were not for us to know. Great writers are the ones who listen and say nothing–who take it all in and save their classified information for a day when all the right words flow and form one epic story of the wondrous world we live in.

As much as many would like to admit, the mind is a dark place, where all of the inner anxieties and and stresses lie. These are the parts that when opened up, show a beauty all man can relate with, giving power to the string of words that seemed so futile before. But with power,

did is that he was not afraid of saying the plain truths. The stories, which were previously

Every word written or read is a chance to better yourself or someone else. Our words carry an enormous significance with them. Even if a person doesn’t enjoy reading or writing, they can not deny that fact. I bring this up because reading and writing has shaped me into the person I am today. So it is no surprise that I am willing to rant about how great reading and writing can be.

can get the people listening to feel what he is feeling. By doing this the audience would adapt to

The resources of the soul are immense and go far beyond our highest imagination. We do not know our soul’s potential, however, we do know that it is almost immeasurable.Finally, both men believe that the imagination can uplift and change our lives.

Writing may be an enthralling experience for one and a clever way to decompress for another. In general, however, writing has different purposes for a variety of people. “Why I Write,” written in the late 20th century by Terry Tempest Williams, describes various reasons for writing narrated from a female’s perspective. The short essay begins in the middle of the night with a woman engulfed in her own thoughts. She abruptly goes forth by reciting the multiple reasons why she continues to write in her life. Through a variety of rhetorical devices such as repetition, imagery, analogies, and symbolism, Terry Tempest Williams produces an elegant piece of writing that offers the audience insight into the narrator’s life and forces the audience to have empathy for the narrator with the situation she is incurring.

“Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.” -Paulo Coelho

Often the most important trait a person can posses is to be aware of their surroundings. If someone is aware of their surroundings on a physical, mental and emotional level, they have the power to fully immerse themselves in their experience, without hesitation or limitation. In Saidiya Hartman’s memoir Lose Your Mother, the reader is presented with an orator who lacks complete awareness of their surroundings, which later translates to a lack of self-awareness, while in both Jamaica Kincaid’s and Caryl Phillips respective memoirs the reader is presented with authors who are fully aware of their surroundings and thus self aware as well.

This event taught us as media professionals to always listen to the whole story., In the beginning of the segment the broadcast stated that this was a theatre production. Not only did this encouraged active listening, this also encouraged us as media professionals to be more detailed with all the stories that we present to the public. When presenting stories, we want the audience to actually care and maybe not have the exact reaction they did but to have a level of

As I signed up for a class called “Embodied Discourse” I had no idea what to expect; the only informatioin I knew was that I was about to take a Goal 1 course. If someone asked me on week one or even two what “embodied discourse” meant in terms of this course, I believe my response would be something along the lines of: “I don’t know, but we do yoga every day!” As the course progressed, if someone asked that same question, my response transformed more to: “It’s about integrating your mind and body into writing,” but I always remembered to mention we did yoga every time we met as a class. It has taken me awhile to realize that embodied discourse is more than just a class I’m taking to help me incorporate my mind and body together into writing. Much of the content we have discussed has been eye-opening to me, regardless the topic, or of it was a discussion, listening to an interview, or digging deeper into my thoughts through meaning making journals. By living our lives in ways that de-center ego and create a sense of integration, we free ourselves from a “default” mode that David Foster Wallace articulates. Realizing that college graduates are equipped with an educated mind, Wallace encourages us to think about our thinking. Since thinking inwardly is natural, it requires refocusing of ego to think outwardly. Wallace’s ideas are a leap towards a better sense of integration of the mind and body. Acknowledging that our minds and bodies are subconsciously weaved together means

impossible to ignore because of how close he felt to audience, thanks to the extended stage which

"And if I did learn to listen, wouldn't there be a point at which I'd have to take over the telling? Wasn't there something fundamental in my writing, in my capacity to function that depended on flight, on escape? Wasn't another person's skin a hiding place, a place to work out anxiety, to face threats too intimidating to handle in any other fashion? Wasn't writing about people a way of exploiting them?"(Wideman 709).

The musical offering was keyboard canons, fugues and another genre of Bach’s music. All of them dedicated to Frederick the Great or Frederick II of Prussia, who brought a one-line musical theme to Bach. Frederick knew that Bach had good improvising skill, so he wanted him to do it. In addition, Bach had improvised three parts of a voice fugue, but Frederick did want to make it harder than Bach did. He told Bach to make it done by writing

I had given all control to her at this point, the ticking had stop and one of my favorite songs played in my head. The song I had picked out for this moment, it all seemed unreal to me. My legs moved me off my porch and into the sand, it felt weird between my