Last week I had the pleasure of guest-teaching an intermediate-level ballet class at a local studio. It's been a while since I taught ballet, and I was nervous I would forget the correct terms/tell a dumb joke to a crowd of teenagers/generally make a fool of myself. But luckily, it went rather well! And in [...]
Category: Dance
On Goals, and Achieving Them
Hey internet--it's been a while. There are lots of things in my life I ought to talk about right now, but I'm going to restrict myself to just a few. I'm sitting on some pretty exciting news, and while in many ways it is still developing, I don't think I can keep my mouth shut [...]
Things Holly Likes
Well lookie here, a bonus post! I read a lot of a blogs, and one I've recently discovered is this: Things We Like, created by Jessica Gross. It's part art piece, part salve for the anxious, part cultivated aesthetics by the multitudes of humanity. People write in with lists of things they like, from the [...]
On My Lonesome
Hello internet! Happy Wednesday. So on the heels of my decision I've begun to plan the next 8 months of my life in earnest. And that means I now get to pick apart all the things I'm worried about and need to make, one by one, like quills out of skin. Today's Problem: I don't [...]
Decisions
I seem to have continued my summer-streak of not writing much. It's not from lack of thoughts, but rather an abundance of them. I keep wanting to write the same post over and over again, from slightly different angles, and just end up writing nothing. I don't want to be repetitive, even though the web [...]
SU Ballroom 2016-2017
Hi everyone! I hope you are all having lovely summers. While we are still in the middle of July, I am a habitual plan-aheader. I've been doing a lot of thinking about the shape of this upcoming academic year, and what I want to accomplish with all of you. Here is a fact: This will [...]
Ballet, and Me
I have a complicated relationship with my first art. My mom put me in little-kid dance classes when I was 3, in the hopes of making her uncoordinated daughter graceful--or so she claims. Every year she would ask me if I still wanted to do dance, and every year I said yes. I kept saying [...]
Update on that Crazy Idea
Hi internet! Happy Monday. So do you recall a month ago or so I wrote this? TL;DR, I had a mighty need to make something, and I had a concept. Well, I've actually done it--in part. Yesterday I got a bunch of hapless souls--er, minions--er, friends--together and we filmed the first half of my dance video [...]
Partners in Life and Dance
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 [...]
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 [...]
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