Humans of DV: Week 2

Mrs. Karen Dennis “I knew that if I could get through that, I could get through anything. I was diagnosed in September of 2013. I had what’s called breast cancer, but it’s a DCIS — ductal carcinoma in situ. They don’t even stage it because it’s so early. The early detection was amazing. I had the mammogram, and within a month I had the mysectomy. Because they got it very, very early,...

AJ Sohrabi "I’m playing [Angel], this super unconventional character in RENT, and it’s my first time being on stage since fourth grade, but I’m excited about the effect that my character could have on the broader scale at DVHS. We all come here for academics and work, which is very understandable, but drama is very exciting and loud, which is so different, but nice. I believe that drama can mak...

Hannah McCutcheon “I usually get my inspiration for making OCs (original characters) from anything and everything. I’ll be looking outside and see something pretty and think, 'I’m going to draw that.' For example, if I saw a peacock, I would make a colorful person that had highlights in their hair. The OCs are not influenced by my life, they just come to mind. If it was based off a drama o...

Saatvika Gorti “To honest with you, I really don't have a style when it comes to those things. The thing is, if you've seen my art, like my flower paintings, those are a lot more simple. And then there's a lot more other things that I was taught that I really liked, like painting depth, capturing light, and stuff like that … and you can call so many things art. And so if art itself is such a br...