I'm kind of superstitious when it comes to the dance team I coach ( Read more... )

I had my ass handed to me at company rehearsal yesterday. It was so fantastic and fun that I don't mind, but it was pretty humiliating nonetheless. :)

I'm classically trained, as far as dance goes. I started my real dance classes the day I started tap. My tap master was a classicist and a purist; no Savion Glover wailing about on the stage. Her ( Read more... )

Now that my commute is ridiculously long, I get to work almost an hour before I need to be. Somehow this makes me more motivated to work. I'm ... not sure how getting up earlier and working longer can pull that off, but it does.

The school I coach at hosted the state dance/drill coaches conference this weekend. so I got no sleep and worked entirely ( Read more... )

I know I don't have any active dancers on my flist here - or at least none that have spoken up about it - so this is probably the kind of post that is put up to remind oneself of very important things but that everyone else ignores.

Ahem. Commence the ignoring.

Creating a fan-kick version of a pas de chat does not make you pretty. It makes you semi ( Read more... )

* The dance team season begins again tonight ... didn't we just leave this party? I swear I was just stressing about it last week. Le sigh.

* I think I was an insufferable know-it-all at company rehearsal last night. Just a feeling. I hate hindsight.

* As per usual, I became disquieted about the state of H/L fandom Saturday -- and wrote something ( Read more... )

An "outsider" called me a choreographer today, which was just all sorts of awesome. Usually, when someone wishes to explain what I do when I'm not at my desk here, they say I'm a dancer. Which ... is true. Mostly.

But my real skillz are not in that area; I'm more, ah, talented (?) with choreography.

So I have to post today a brief but exultant ' ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm back for like a millisecond from the dance camp I teach at. Well, actually, I go back tomorrow, so I guess the millisecond comment probably isn't accurate in the slightest. :-)

Let me sum up camp for you: early mornings waking from dorm-sized twin beds, cold showers in dorm stalls, happy-peppy faces AT ALL TIMES, lots of teaching in loud ( Read more... )

The volume of my ramblings has not been nearly as impressive as I'd hoped, so I need to fill in the "how are you going?" kind of life-updates for my own sanity. :)

I am okay. After state was finished, we had one week until we went to Florida. After that week, I had a week of being sick and miserable. After that week, I had the "omg, my show opens on ( Read more... )

I 'm back from Disneyworld, and I'm exhausted but feeling very good ( Read more... )

I missed a company rehearsal on Monday, so I was playing catch-up last night. In the modern piece, L was teaching me a section and she made the mistake of saying, "Well, actually, it was a full-throttle run-and-slide, but we changed it to a snake-like movement because B and I couldn't do it."

Then I do what I always do and go, "Like .... this?" And ( Read more... )