Oh, to dance again!
I just found out, while catching up with Spider Robinson, that his wife Jeanne, will be going up on a Zero-G Corp flight (blog about the event), lifting off from Los Vegas this Sunday. She and her dancer will be performing a piece Jeanne choreographed to work in zero G, microgravity.
I, of course, read the Stardance books when they came out, and had the privilege to design and produce reissues of them with Spider when I was at Baen. If you haven't read them, hie ye off to Amazon and buy them now. Really. You will thank me afterwards.
I keep tearing up thinking about how cool this is.
I was a dancer for many years, starting with Pola Nirenska, wife of Jan Karski, when I was only four years old, in DC, and then with the Washington School of Ballet (under Mary Day) until my move to PA at 14. Then with Doylestown Dance and others until I tore my knee to shreds at 20 (the orthopedist said it had been micro-tears probably since I was at least 12, leading to one final big tear that took me off my feet, and toes).
The knee is long since healed after three operations back in the 80s, and I kept on dancing, but arthritis has now set in, chronic bursitis and arthritis in my right hip (which is why I have a handicapped permit at this point), and the aches and pains of middle age after abusing my body when I was young.
Oh, to dance again. The only way I will ever do that is without the weight of Earth's gravity pulling at my joints.
This is the coolest thing I've ever heard of. That Jeanne actually gets to go up! Wow!!!!
I, of course, read the Stardance books when they came out, and had the privilege to design and produce reissues of them with Spider when I was at Baen. If you haven't read them, hie ye off to Amazon and buy them now. Really. You will thank me afterwards.
I keep tearing up thinking about how cool this is.
I was a dancer for many years, starting with Pola Nirenska, wife of Jan Karski, when I was only four years old, in DC, and then with the Washington School of Ballet (under Mary Day) until my move to PA at 14. Then with Doylestown Dance and others until I tore my knee to shreds at 20 (the orthopedist said it had been micro-tears probably since I was at least 12, leading to one final big tear that took me off my feet, and toes).
The knee is long since healed after three operations back in the 80s, and I kept on dancing, but arthritis has now set in, chronic bursitis and arthritis in my right hip (which is why I have a handicapped permit at this point), and the aches and pains of middle age after abusing my body when I was young.
Oh, to dance again. The only way I will ever do that is without the weight of Earth's gravity pulling at my joints.
This is the coolest thing I've ever heard of. That Jeanne actually gets to go up! Wow!!!!