Written on April 10th, along side Ballet Barre 1 with Dutch National Ballet: I keep saying I’m going to get back in shape, do ballet barre more often, etc. Now a couple of caveats here: I have always been terrible at exercising at home. Always. Even when I was training in a dance studio 6 days a week. (And that goes for ballet and ballroom.) However, because I was already in the studio 6 days a week, it didn’t really matter because that on it’s own typically kept me in shape. Then I left college […]
A Little Bit of Ballet
I have been in one of my “can’t finish a book” ruts for a few days now. Which means I have been switching back and forth in an endless cycle between Wild Wood by Posie Graeme-Evans, The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, and The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry. This is followed by brief moments of “Oh! I should finish that” with Justice Hall by Laurie R. King. Add to those that I’ve now started Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang. I blame being stuck at home for so long that my brain […]
Choreography: “Under Cover of Darkness”
This is the first post in this category, and depending on what else is going on, hopefully not the last. Changing studios and moving and all of that makes these things very up in the air, but I wanted to discuss the inspiration behind this piece because it makes me sound completely geeky – and also completely in love with what I do. “Under Cover of Darkness” is the first piece I ever choreographed for competition. (I do not count throwing together a long line and a short line of dance for ballroom “choreographing for […]