One of the things I'm hoping to over Winter Break from Suffolk is spend a bunch of time working on personal writing projects. One of the things I want to work on is a series of essays about dance from the dual point of view of dancer and critic. What kind of questions would YOU like to ask a dancer? Questions can be on just about anything-- ( Read more... )

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Based on the enthusiastic responses to the poll I posted a few weeks ago, I wanted to let you know that I have arranged to run an eight week class this summer at Mary Flynn Murphy's dance studio, which is located in Ball Square, a short walk from the Davis T. stop. This class will run from 6 PM to 8 PM on Thursday evenings and will include an ( Read more... )

In about two weeks time I am going to start teaching a class through the OSHER Institute for Lifelong Learning. My course is entitled "understanding ballet as an art form" and is mostly going to be based around looking at short film clips of various ballets and talking about what we see in them. I plan to give the students a fair amount of ( Read more... )

Does anybody reading this in the Boston area have the equipment, or access to the equipment, to help me convert a dozen or so VHS tapes to DVDs?

Thanks!

Our friends are awesome.

lyonesse , nacht_musik , veek , and And/or housemate M. got Tish and I an early wedding present of tickets to the opening night of Jewels and a dinner at Mistral.  We haven't had the dinner yet, but tonight was opening night for the ballet and we had ninth-row seats to see it in all its glory.

Jewels was first performed in 1967.  It is a full- ( Read more... )

It has been a very aesthetically full weekend.

On Friday night we went to see Boston Ballet's production of Jiri Kylian pieces, which thrilled me in their playfulness, humor, and musicality.  The dancers shone in them, moving as a corps in a way I rarely see them achieve in the classical ballets and clearly investing themselves in the pieces ( Read more... )

It has been a day of weasel brains, a day in which my mind seems determined to take things and make me dissatisfied with them.  Getting ready for ballet this morning I got angry at myself for having made it to so few classes lately.  I have a completely crazy schedule in the next 9 days, but I am determined, after I return from NYC, to go to three ( Read more... )

It was one of those days where you it the ground running and 14 hours later you come back into your house and put away all the things that you had taken with you when you left in the morning (except for the ones you had given away as gifts and loans, which stayed in other places) and you are so used to the going and the doing and the seeing and the ( Read more... )