Real Talk time, everyone. I have a story, and it's my story. It's not scandalous, or click-baity, but I'm having some existential angst need to talk about it. I want to be a professional dancer. There. I said it. Believe it or not, that's a phrase I've danced (ha) around saying outright for near on [...]
Category: Dance
Video Review: EnTANGOed
So I really don't have much to say beyond how FREAKIN' AWESOME this is. By now y'all know how much I love the intersection of ballroom and ballet. Now add in SCIENCE and my little nerd heart is a-glow with glee. Seriously. Physics PhD, gorgeous dancer--soon-to-be Dr. Moore has got it going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzKdKJn9El4 (Maybe [...]
Trumpet in the Quart–At Last!
Hi everyone--remember how a couple months ago I wrote this post about how I had spent a fun evening filming a music video? Well, said video is finished and I have the pleasure of showing it to you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjELvCvpcb4 What do you think?! I think it's super cool. Particularly that shot of Jeff and [...]
Today’s Tidbit
What says more about my teaching style than anything else: When I made a joke last night about having forgotten my smackin' ruler for whipping people into ballroom shape, and not one person laughed. Because they thought I was serious. Let that be a lesson, boys and girls! Speaking of teaching, I'm doing a workshop series [...]
Freedom Swing 2016
Hello everyone, welcome back to the work week. If you live on the East Coast of the US, did you survive the storm? Speaking of the storm.... Amidst the screams of OMG SNOW-POCALYPSE and frantic calls from family, the Sven and I made our way south to Philadelphia. It was fine. Yes, the roads around [...]
Video Review: AMESKA
YES. Ok so I'm really excited to talk about something here. Those of you who know me in real life or are a frequent reader-between-the-lines on this here blog will know that I have a brewing desire to combine ballroom and ballet into...something. You can, therefore, imagine my excitement when I discovered one of the [...]
Dance Goals 2016
(Clearly I don't know what a hiatus is.) It's that time of year again, where people name out all kind of things they want to accomplish in the calendar year. Historically I've ignored the 'resolution' thing, being a bit cynical about people claiming to be instigating drastic changes in their lives without thinking through the [...]
Trumpets in the Quart: My First Music Video
I'm a skeptical person. It doesn't take long, when walking into a new situation, for concerns to seed, grow, and flower into doubts regarding the success of a project. It's not that I'm eagerly waiting for people fail--I've just seen it enough times that I've developed a healthy caution for ambitious undertakings. But at the [...]
The Gift
Good morning Readers, and welcome back to my life. Today I have a Christmas tale of sorts--or at least a tale about a Christmas tale. Saturday I performed in a combination dance & theater production as a fundraiser for the charity/dance company my friend Dr. Tehmekah Macpherson has founded. The other project I've done with Dr. [...]
Hovering in the Wings
Good morning Readers, and welcome back to my dancing life. This weekend was another flurry of events--though no flurries of snow, thankfully. Let's dive right in, shall we? Friday night I DJ-ed another dance, this time the Winter Ball for the SU Ballroom Club. Lead-up to the event had been plagued with issues, and so [...]
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