Category: Learning to Dance
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Holding On and Letting Go
When I was a child, one of the many things that I loved about ballet class was standing in place at the barre. Each student stood a respectful distance away from one another, occupying their own panel of mirror. The barre was so smooth and solid under my fingers. It supported my full weight –…
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Dancers and Horses
Last Saturday was the 151st Kentucky Derby where I live in Louisville, KY. I don’t know that much about breeding, raising, and training racehorses or how they are treated or what their lives are like. So that won’t be the focus of this blog post. Instead, I want to make a loose analogy between top,…
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Perhaps Dance Is Not For Everyone
I have a friend and colleague (“C”) who is is getting married soon and there will be a first dance. His fiancée (“D”) is a professional dancer. C is not a professional dancer. Nor does he consider himself to be a dancer of any kind. But he loves D, and he wants to participate in…