Category Archives: teaching
My Boyfriend, Chuck.
Everyone, I’d like to introduce you to my boyfriend Chuck. Here we are dancing : Please stop thinking, that is a doctored photo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with my face plastered on Ginger and Jensen Ackles face on … Continue reading
Grace
I had reservations about posting this picture because I might get in trouble with the event photo people, but until they tell me to take it down, screw it… My first lady of dance Tina Mayer, just looks fierce!
I Love The…
I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog describing and explaining things I don’t like. In lieu of that, I do solemnly swear, more positivity. It’s just more productive. Today I would like to say, I love the… …philosophy … Continue reading
Pet Peeves
Trying out some new instructors and since it has been that long since I have had to embark on this journey I forgotten what it is like to be on the receiving end of someone else’s bloated ego. Why is … Continue reading
How To Quit You
Rachel Brice so earnestly said to me, “You’re not done one minute before you are done. Not one minute, one second, one hour.” These words still echo in my brain when the moment I realize, something is actually over. In … Continue reading
April Follies – Part Two -The Aftermath
Please, no pictures. I feel the need to make a huge disclaimer here. The very bad voice that takes over at one point of this blog is only a very small part of a very rational mind. Part of the … Continue reading
The Best Pair Of Shoes I’ve Owned Yet
The Spinning Dancers search for her New Top Smooth Ballroom Instructor starts tonight, on the CW! Finding a teacher for privet instruction is a lot like buying shoes. You don’t just purchase the first pair of shoes you come across … Continue reading
April Follies – Part One
I traveled back to my old stomping grounds in the east bay, to compete for the first time in a long time in a ballroom competition, April Follies. There I competed with my long time teacher Miss Tina Mayer. (Yes, … Continue reading
Seven Deadly Sins Of Dance: Why I’m Guilty of Every One of Them
I have never been a religious person and I am truly sorry if my views offend anyone. My only intent is to write a charming blog about the sinning (some fun, some not so fun) of dance. I started with … Continue reading
Negotiating Burn Out; Dance Edition
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Physical, mental and emotional exhaustion got you down? Are shame and doubt your new best friends? Have you developed so much cynicism and callousness that one could interpret it as, an attitude? Does failure, helplessness and … Continue reading
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