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. [...]
Hello readers, and welcome back to my life! This past weekend was slightly crazy, even by my standards--and next weekend is going to be even more nuts. Stay tuned. Since I don't want to pick just one event to discuss, let's do ALL of them. On Friday, the SU Ballroom club held a social dance. I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We come at last to a very influential choreographic project in the development of Holly the artist. The year was 2010, and I was a senior in high school. I was also something of a failure. How, you ask? Well, in my ballet company, there were very few graduating seniors, as members either dropped out [...]
A year after my first piece “Day & Night” premiered, I created another piece in more or less the same situation. Same summer intensive. Same show. Different people. The band Mannheim Steamroller has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember, and not just for their infinitely more recognizable Christmas music. [...]
Welcome to the first post of another feature: Choreography. These articles will start out discussing choreographic pieces I’ve created, and once I run out of those I’ll probably move into talking about other modern/classic choreography in the world today. In the theme of ‘firsts’, today I am going to recall the very first piece I [...]
In our journey through my collection of choreographic exploits, we flash forward another year to another summer intensive. Little Holly is now 15 and wants to go ‘abroad’ for the summer, rather than staying at my home ballet school. I really wanted a program that seemed to focus on choreography, and so I ended up [...]
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