August 2011
4 posts
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Recidivism Deferred (A Hip-Hop Dance Blog): Todays... →
safithomas:
There are many dancers who become choreographers prematurely. They are in essence unripened fruit. Not very palatable and having a poor impact on the system which ingests it.
A complete dance education is requisite in order to delve into choreography. It is counterintuitive to pursue our…
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July 2011
5 posts
Learn from (and with) the best! →
Every year dance educators from around the country come together for a great weekend of classes, performances, shopping and seminars. I can’t wait to see who is there this year!
“No one can arrive from being talented alone.
God gives talent; work transforms...”
– Anna Pavlova
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Dance on Film- full circle
For my very first dance happens. blog post, I discussed an article I had read regarding dance movies. It was a top-ten list of what was supposed to be the best of the dance movie genre, and I had some issues with it.
Now, one year later, another source has developed a comprehensive list of outstanding dance on film. Though not a top-ten list, it truly is a wonderful compilation of titles, with...
June 2011
3 posts
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical,...”
– Carol Welch
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Check Mate (...or check your e-mail again)
I wouldn’t call myself the wheeling-and-dealing type. I am not a master of strategrey. I like to spend my time working on projects, being engrossed in a task from beginning to end, and I rarely enjoy scouting out the next big thing. Hopefully, it will just drop into my lap or knock on my door or drop me an e-mail saying “Hey, what you’re doing is neat! Can I give you money for...
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“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”
– Ted Shawn
January 2011
2 posts
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“When people start cramping your style, there is only one thing to do: innovate!...”
– Me
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“I want it to be seen by young people who don’t know the possibility of it....”
– Gus Solomons Jr.
September 2010
2 posts
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Who are you wearing?
I remember getting dressed for dance class. I would open up my overflowing drawer of tights and leotards, pull out my shimmery tan stirrup tights, grab that hot pink and gray leotard with high cut leg openings, rummage for my trash-bag shorts and get dressed. Then, of course, I’d have to look for the matching scrunchie to wrap around my bun and spritz a little more Aqua Net on my feathered...
August 2010
7 posts
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in...”
– ~Faith Whittlesey
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Be there or be....on the couch? →
Generation IV Dance Intensive. Teddy Forance, Travis Wall and more. In my corner of the world. What Luck!
“‘Dance gives you nothing back. No MS to store away, no paintings to show...”
– Merce Cunningham
Considerations for a budding blogger →
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The "Top Ten"?
So Travis sent me this link to Yahoo Movies this morning. It claims to list the “Top Ten Dance Movies”. Check it out:
http://ow.ly/2moJj
“And now it’s time for the breakdown…”
For every movie mentioned, I thought of at least one more that was missing or should have been on the list instead of another.
1. Signin’ In the Rain. Yes, yes, and yes. I...
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble...”
– ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Greetings!
…and welcome to my blog. I am a dancer/dance teacher/community builder/budding nerd. I am generally busy with about a thousand things and sometimes I just have the desire to get all of my thoughts and over-analysis out of my system…. in a way that will not annoy my friends and relatives.