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A Houston dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher writes about all the funny (and not-so-funny) aspects of a dancing life.

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  • The Ballet Blues

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 17:21 in blog of the weekend, dreariness, headsplosion

    I recently wrote about some frustrations I've been having in my dancing life. It all built up and came to a head this morning-- as I was laying in bed thinking about it, I started crying. WTF? When something frustrates you so much that it's making yo...

  • Blog of the Weekend: Back in Business

    Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 21:02 in blog of the weekend

    I know, I know, I KNOW-- I've been slacking on updates over here. The season's performances are over, and things have been pretty slow these last few weeks. Now that I'm back at the studio for the summer semester and I'm starting a new ballet, I shou...

  • Blog of the Weekend: A Fine Fillet

    Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 16:07 in blog of the weekend, link-o-mania

    Oh, hey guys! Remember when I used to do that series, Blog of the Weekend? Yeah, I've kind of been slacking on that. Sorry, y'all.As you well know, this blog serves to chronicle my life as a young dancer trying to Make It in this difficult profession...

  • Being "Out" (Plus: A Blog of the Weekend triple feature)

    Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 14:27 in blog of the weekend, injuries illness, link-o-mania

    "Where have you been all week?"Sorry, dear readers. The thing is that when I'm sick, I don't dance. When I don't dance, I have nothing to blog about, and you guys have nothing to read while you're slacking off at work. I got slammed with a nasty vira...

  • Blog of the Weekend: A Good Outlook

    Posted on Friday April 10th, 2009 at 19:33 in blog of the weekend

    One of my favorite dance bloggers took a hiatus a couple of months ago. She finally came back, and the blogosphere is very happy about this. So that's why this week's Blog of the Weekend is:Selly, the author, is a bit like me: She's still dancing her...

  • Blog of the Weekend: DanceMind

    Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 01:00 in blog of the weekend, link-o-mania

    As you know, the basis of my blog content is observations on the life of a professional dancer, as told by a dancer. I tell funny stories of what happens in rehearsals, sure, but I also post frustrations, questions, the less-than-fun parts of my danc...

  • Blog of the Weekend: Speaking of travel....

    Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 16:37 in blog of the weekend

    Welcome to Blog of the weekend, v.2 (I'm aware I missed last week. Sorry)! I'll be out of town for the next two days; M and I are headed out to Austin, Texas. And speaking of traveling......there's a reason why I live in Houston and not in New York C...

  • New from Upstage Left: Blogger of the Weekend

    Posted on Saturday March 7th, 2009 at 11:52 in blog of the weekend, lots of links

    Welcome to my new series: Every weekend I'm going to highlight a blog that I think you all should check out, thus giving you something cool to read during our 48-hour weekly tradition of slacking off and surfing that internet.*So, who deserves the ho...