Category Archives: ballet
Mouse Tales
This is a mouse tale, about my mouse tails. What is a mouse tail? Mouse tails and ears are what some ballet people call the strings that you secure your slipper or shoe with at the front of your slipper … Continue reading
Spin Cycle
Time to talk about laundry baby. Yup. Laundry. How much is too much? No matter how many black tank tops, tights, dance pants, leotards, tee shirts, yoga pants, stretchy pants or dance related items I own, it just seems, before … Continue reading
Stank Face
Why does some ones achievement sometimes mean burn the witch? Is it my fault you don’t come to class as much as I do? So you have a family, I don’t. I don’t make dinner for others, there is no … Continue reading
A Fly In The Ointment
For five centuries, ‘a fly in the ointment’ has meant a small defect that spoils something valuable or is a source of annoyance. The modern version thus suggests that something unpleasant may come or has come to light in a … Continue reading
What’s Your Dance Personality?
Are you a Special Snowflake Diva? An Insular Bell Jar? The Geek Felicia Day? Or The Humble Rachel Brice Gandhi? (Theorised by a (mostly) Geek Felicia Day.) I present these four personality types with the theory that not one person … Continue reading
What’s the Point(e)?
I should have known immediately to ask for a different sales woman when as I walked into the dance store I was looked up and down and uttered at with contempt, “Well, don’t you look cute.”. But my reason for … Continue reading
True Recovery
(While this is the same injury as mine, this picture is not my MRI.) In the interest of full disclosure, the MRI of my lower spine reads like this: 1. At the level of the L4-L5, there is a large … Continue reading
Pink Tights Just Don’t Stay Clean
There is just no way to keep pink tights clean. This image is wrong. I have searched, scoured and possibly begged the internet for the answer. I was convinced some mom, somewhere, figured out the magic oxy-clean and vinegar recipe to … Continue reading
Hope And Dental Floss
Dealing with injury and the pain that inevitably comes along with it? Try… “I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.” -Bob Hope The formula is simple enough, through … Continue reading
It Is, What It Is.
The truth about performing when you are not a professional. It is, what it is. (The adult peasants gather before the show. “Hey Prince, Heeeey!”) These are my pictures to show that I was there and that it happened. I’m … Continue reading
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