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Last night was opening night and the much-deserved festive gala event for Take Dance’s season at Dance Theatre Workshop. L’Cheim! I’m a sucker for a toast whenever possible! To be entirely honest, I’m typing this now in the slight haziness of the celebratory vodka-sodas I thoroughly enjoyed last evening. I was entirely grateful to have [ READ MORE ]
So finally, here are some photos and video footage from my rehearsals with Kate for the solo I created on her, Breeze. I’ve included the piece in its entirety. Enjoy! And as it is a work in progress, please shoot me some thoughts and comments. All in all, the performance went well. I was completely proud of [ READ MORE ]
So after much back and forth action, I decided to plug forward and present a brief solo at The Hatch to be performed today! My hesitations were mostly due to wearing myself too thin and mere procrastination of propelling my choreography further, although the latter was much harder to admit to myself. Since procrastination and [ READ MORE ]
The financial woes of the modern dancer and various parallel/intermediary careers which both work and don't work[ READ MORE ]
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http://ping.fm/DjqtN some photos from my 60 second solo (now turned group dance) from 60×60 choreographic collaboration![ READ MORE ]
http://danceprosusa.wordpress.com/. Stumbled upon this blog post about maintain focus to achieve your goals and find it right in line with performing![ READ MORE ]
Just came back from Park City, Utah after my final performance of Remember Me and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit nostalgic for the constant rigors of performance and rehearsal, plus the fabulous company of gifted dancers. Not to mention I am essentially unemployed and slightly broke! Interested in teaching positions [ READ MORE ]
Backstage in the dressing room of the Joyce, I tediously and ritualistically applied my makeup entirely too early. I literally did it as slow and methodically as humanly possible just so I didn’t have ions of time before curtain to psych myself out. My hair had about a full 20 minutes of unnecessary maintenance time. [ READ MORE ]
Just about a few months ago, I was walking down 2nd avenue on my way to my waitressing job (a kind reminder of not being on my way to rehearsal or anything entirely productive), on the phone with my poor mother part-crying, part-laughing demanding, “At what point did we think getting a degree in modern [ READ MORE ]
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