Happy Tuesday, internet! So a month ago my West Coast Swing friend and All-Star dancer extraordinaire Maria Ford published two blog posts about the interplay of social dancing and romantic relationships. This one, about the pros and cons of beginning dance lessons when already in a committed relationship, and this one, about advice for the [...]
Author: hhstone
On Endings
Although the weather stubbornly refuses to warm up here in Central NY, so ends another academic year teaching Ballroom at SU. Already the campus is turning into a ghost town--though it will pick back up in a few weeks once summer classes begin. Graduation is this weekend, and the cycle starts anew. This year has [...]
Reading in April
Happy Monday, denizens of the internet! And welcome to May, the month of AP exams, college graduations, and the cusp of summer. Following the smash-hit reading I did in March, April was more of a cricket-chirp. Between all the teaching, performing, traveling, and catch-up sleeping, I only read two books. [sad trombone] Luckily we make [...]
I’ve Tasted the Big Apple
Happy Friday people of the internet! I have had another adventure, this time of the big city variety. I went on a business trip this week, for the biotech trade-show Interphex, at the Javits Conference Center in NYC. Impressions? It was flipping enormous. As a newbie in the biotech world, it was really cool and [...]
A New Crazy Idea
Six years ago, I told a little white lie. I wanted to make a movie trailer for a book I had written. Just a few problems: I hadn't told anyone save my parents and three trusted confidants that I had written the book in the first place. I needed a cast of dozens, but I didn't [...]
MIT Open 2016
Hello internet! I hope the place from where you are reading this is as blue-skied and sunny as the place from where I am writing this. (Is the above grammatically correct? It seems suspicious to me.) Last weekend I had another one of my weekend ballroom adventures! The SU Ballroom club and I piled into [...]
National Water Dance
Good morning, people of the internet! I have something special for you today. Everyone knows about Earth Day, but have you heard of the National Water Day--more specifically, the National Water Dance? The National Water Dance is a site-specific collaborative art project, with dancers, choreographers, educators, and advocates working together to create a 'movement choir.' [...]
Broadway in Syracuse: The Phantom of the Opera
Hello Monday people! Yesterday Sven, some friends, and I went to the palatial Landmark Theater in downtown Syracuse to see The Phantom of the Opera, a new touring production of the immensely famous musical. And I, your humble blogger, am going to tell you what I thought of it. And I'm going to run out [...]
Weekends are for Dancing
Hi everyone! I come to you in much better spirits than last week.Thank you to everyone for your kind words about that little debacle. This past weekend was another Holly-patented whirlwind of dancing events. Let's recap, shall we? Friday was ballroom practice and then a West Coast Swing dance courtesy of Mr. Steve Ryan. A [...]
Punching
Hi everyone. Time for some more Real Talk. I feel a bit like a wilted puppy--a phrase that sounds like a mixed metaphor unless you have ever had a dog and scolded it. Their whole body melts down, tail drooping, eyes sad, ears tucked back. That's how I feel right now. I read a lot [...]
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