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Just finally submitted my application to Columbia College of Chicago’s Dance-Movement Therapy program.
Now I can breathe.
…Or, well, now I can spend the next several weeks holding my breath.
One or the other.
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Balance Video
So I finally recorded a balancé video, at least. It’s taking 6,000,000 years to upload (apparently the Innertubes have sprung a leak or something?), but once that’s done I should have it up tonight or tomorrow (we’re going to a party tonight, then I have class and an opera in the morning and afternoon, so probably tomorrow evening, realistically).
The actual video quality is laughably bad, but it’s a start.
À bientôt, mes amis!
Foam Roller, I Choose You!
So I just spent like an hour with my new best friend, the foam roller.
In the past, I’ve mostly just rolled my calves. Tonight I rolled errrrrrrrthang, then stretched, did shoulder stands and “air splits,” and then rolled errrrrrrrthang again. Even my back. Even my sides. Especially those weird hypertrophic glutei medii that are endemic to male ballet peeps. I even managed to roll my pyriformes (which really, really needed it). Okay, I didn’t think of how to roll my upper arms until just now, so I’ll have to do those in the morning. And my neck is out of scope for this roller, I think.
OMG, you guys, why haven’t I been doing this all along? Every part of my body feels better (and my foam roller only cost me $5!). Parts of me that I didn’t even know were sore feel better. It is like having a whole new body.
C’est tout. À bientôt, mes amis!
Thanksgiving & Stuff, 2015
I’m writing this largely as a note-to-self, so it will be a tad light on actual content 🙂
- Monday class only next week. No class Wednesday or Saturday.
- The GC2B vest works well enough that I can just wear the compression tank over it if the studio’s warm enough.
- I need to remember to make a bazillion rolls for Thursday (we’re doing dinner at Kelly’s).
- Fathom Events is broadcasting both Balanchine’s Nutcracker from NYCB(5 and 10 December, 2015) and The Lady of the Camellias from Bolshoi Ballet … so even if you can’t make it to live, local ballet for whatever reason, you might be able to catch one of those. If you don’t have class then, of course.
- Leçon à lundi seulement à la semaine prochaine. Pas de leçon à mecredi ou samedi.
- Le gilet GC2B fonction assez bien de porter le maillot de compression avec il si le studio est assez chaud.
- Je ne dois pas oublier de faire un bazillion petit pains pour jeudi (nous dînerons chez Kelly).
- Evénements Fathom diffuse “Le Casse-Noisette” de Balanchine du NYCB et “La Dame aux Cam´lias” du Bolchoï, donc même si vous ne pouvez pas aller au ballet local, vous pourriez être en mesure d’aller à l’un de ceux. Si vous n’avez de leçon, bîen sur.
So that’s it for now.
À Bientôt!
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Et maintenant, en français:
J’éris ce que la plupart du temps une note à mois-même, afin de ne pas avoir autent de contenu.
C’est tout pour l’instant.
See you later!
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Notes
I’m going to try to make myself do this “semi-manually translating the post” thing every now and then to at least attempt to bail out the rusting, leaky dinghy that is my command of la langue française.
Where I discover giant holes, I’m calling on Google Translate. When Google Translate insists on a weird, idiomatic phrasing that seems wrong, I paraphrase (for example, Teh Googs really wanted the “rapeller” form of “remember,” rather than “souvenir” — but AFAIK the sense of “rapeller” is more like to recall something from the past rather than to try to keep something your Golden-Retrievery brain for like four more days … so I just re-routed via “must not forget”/”je ne dois pas oublier*”).
When all else fails, maybe I’ll just make stuff up — because if it works when you forget the combination, it should also work when you forget the entire French language … right?
*Turns out that I could have just used a “penser à faire” form (perhaps “J’ai besoin de penser à faire…”). Oh, well.
Huzzah!
First full draft of choreography is written down with timings (but not counts yet; going to have to work that out tomorrow).
It feels good to be unstuck!
Danseur Ignoble: Shadowlands Begins
I’m in your* fellowship hall, choreographin’ your** danz.
1 minute down, 6 minutes to go.
I should prolly video this so I don’t forget any details?
*Okay, the fellowship hall of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal in the Highlands.
**Okay, okay, my danz.
Left out the most important part on Monday – did temps levée without blowing a tendon again (and it felt good!).
Huzzah!
Sorry This Is a Bit Cryptic
Maybe at some point, it’s actually okay to face the world and learn to Adult (even when I was little, I never aspired to grow up; the adults in my life generally seemed to have an ocean of trouble and little time for creative stuff).
Takes realizing, first, how much you need to learn, and then realizing that again. And again. Life is an iterative process; test-driven development writ large.
And then, you have to take those first tentative steps onto the high wire.
Slowly, weirdly, I’m kind of turning into someone I can respect.
It kind of sneaks up on you, though, doesn’t it?
Dear Internet,
I have a lot of homework this week and a website to build. Do you think you could just, like, quiet down for like two days and stop producing awesome new things that I have to read so I can catch up?
Thanks,
Your Increasingly Delinquent Danseur
Quick update: via Fat Heffalump, check out The New Empowering School, a ten-week workshop series for people who like to move it, move it, whether they’re professional dancers or folks who are usually marginalized by dance culture. The stated goal of the project is to “create space of permission, discussion, transformation and revelation through languages of the body-mind. We want to create a space where otherness is celebrated as standard – a place to come worship the wonder that is you!”
You guys, this sounds like a really, really amazing thing. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to London (and stay there for ten weeks), but seriously, this is a fantastic idea. Imagine what could happen if people go to this workshop, take home the best of it, and start sparking similar workshops around the world!
Edit: In other news, I just finished last year’s finances.
It feels weird.
On to catching up this year!
danseur ignoble 