Saturday was a rainy day in New York City but it did not stop my ears from listening to a particular environment. I attend Broadway Dance Center, a dance company in the city. Before taking class on Saturday, I sat outside the classroom and just observed for about an hour while waiting for my class. I listened closely to so many things and jotted down what exactly I heard.
Broadway Dance Center is located on 45th street and Times Square. It is heavy populated and there is constant movement going on here. I expected to witness and hear all sorts of things in this place. In the background I could hear the sirens of fire trucks getting louder and louder as it pasted the windows of Broadway Dance Center. I also heard truck horns beeping and beeping constantly at traffic. Then there was construction going out across the street so I heard the constant chopping and rumbling of the ground getting ripped up out of the street.
Inside I focused on what was going on around me. I could hear very vividly of the students foot steps marching or landing on the ground during a routine. There was a loud group of people around me talking in all different languages. Broadway Dance Center offers an international program in which students from all over the world come and take classes there. I heard languages such as english, spanish, chinese, japanese and etc. When I moved closer to the door there were people panting like dogs. Some students were breathing so heavily that I felt like I was right underneath them. When I sat in the middle of two classrooms; I heard the sounds of two very different genres of music such as hard hitting beats of hip-hop and a softer classic music in contemporary. Lastly, I heard shouting of the teacher counting out the movement throughout the routine.
