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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Hello readers—bonus post today. Let’s talk science. I’ve been thinking lately about physics--how dancing is really just applied physics. Granted, that can be said of all motion, biological or otherwise, but to me dancing is a special case because a) I do it, b) it puts humans in more exotic physical conditions than everyday life, [...]
Hello readers! I hope everyone is having a lovely day. The sun is shining (momentarily), the rain has stopped (fleetingly), and I'm thinking about choreography (perpetually). More specifically, I've been thinking about how I learn and store choreography in my memory. I've been taking ballet classes again after a college-induced hiatus, and lately the studio [...]
Hello again readers! Today I'd like to relate the events of this past Saturday--a stint in Ithaca, NY at the Cornell Dancesport Classic, an annual college-hosted Ballroom competition. Myself, my partner-in-crime, my partner-in-Standard, and four other SU students got up before dawn, shambled into cars, and drove down to Ithaca College. As unpleasantly early and [...]
As the hubbub around the wedding winds down, I find myself wanting to write an ordinary post. Last weekend the Sven and I went to an orchestra concert by the local symphony, and like all good performances, it made me think. The program consisted of Saint-Saëns "Bacchanale" from Samson et Dalila, Poulenc "Concerto for 2 Pianos in [...]
Good morning and welcome back to my life! Things are suddenly very quiet in the world of Holly, as the past two weeks have been the chaotic culmination of 8 months of planning, crafting, and scheduling. For those of you who may not know me IRL, I got married! Wooo! So my now-husband (that word [...]
Good morning and welcome back to my life. Today's musings might be a little disjointed, as I don't have a central thesis beyond WOO SCIENCE. Let's dive in, shall we? So those who know me IRL know that I don't actually dance for a living--rather I am an engineer at Evil Big Pharama, Inc to [...]
Hello all! Good day and welcome back to my life. I've been thinking a lot recently about the culture differences between ballet and ballroom. As I gear up to teach another 'season', if you will, of the SU ballroom team, I reflect on what I've done in the past, as well as what bits I [...]
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