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Meet Me at the Barre: March 2015
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Ballet West at the Joyce Theater and Plans. Truth time. I went to see Ballet West at the Joyce because of the reality show Breaking Pointe. Well, also that I like to watch ballet. And I will admit it was pretty cool to see Allison DeBona, my favorite villain turned heroine after Camille of RHoBH (I am admitting so many embarrassing secrets! The New York Times did a good article. Friday, March 27, 2015. Let's get started...
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Meet Me at the Barre: Back from Vacation
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Friday, July 31, 2015. I got back from vacation a week ago. Honestly, it was kind of hellish. It was too hot, there were a ton of bugs and "in-laws" around, and there was nowhere to take ballet. I tried to do a barre on the balcony one day, but it was carpeted, which made everything difficult. Rug burn on feet! There was on exercise I really liked for arabesque. She had us cross the opposite arm over on the bar to keep the shoulder and hips re...
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Meet Me at the Barre: Cowardice
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Monday, August 17, 2015. Why does class have to end with stuff I'm bad at? Class one level up was great on Saturday until the end, when we did petit allegro and grand allegro jumps. The teacher was like, we've been doing this for a few weeks so let's go faster and add more! So it went even more dismally than usual. Honestly, it was pretty discouraging to end on that note. So I did a cowardly thing and did not stay for center. Turn Out Tune Up.
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Meet Me at the Barre: So happy
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Monday, July 13, 2015. This isn't really a ballet post, more of a post-ballet post. I just want to set down this feeling. FBT came with me to class today, and my best friend from high school was there and it was just amazing. I worked well in class. And seeing FBT being gorgeous and knowing she was there made me work that much harder. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I Wear to Ballet as an Adult Beginner. Ballet With Leigh - Los Angeles.
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Meet Me at the Barre: Turn Out Tune Up
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Friday, August 14, 2015. Turn Out Tune Up. FBT unfortunately has left New York, so now I am without a supplementary private ballet teacher. I did fit in one last session with her on Wednesday before she left. For this one, I asked to focus on turnout. This private really made it clear that turn out is something you actively do, not something you just have. Pliés in every position with a balance. In sous-sus, she said that I again was sinking t...
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Meet Me at the Barre: Social Anxiety (Just Kill Me Now)
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Social Anxiety (Just Kill Me Now). Aside from wanting to crawl in a hole to die of embarrassment, ballet class has been pretty good since my last update. Three classes have passed, so I have a lot of notes to set down here. As always, this is probably a bit tedious, but it helps me a lot to look back on them later. I don't remember this combination that well, because she came over to me to lift my working leg higher in t...
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Meet Me at the Barre: Level Up
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Sunday, July 19, 2015. I decided the best way to kick off my week long vacation was to take the class one level up for the first time on Saturday morning before going to the airport (where I wrote this, as my flight had been very delayed). I had a lot of fun! The barre was actually very doable. The tempo was obviously a lot faster and the combinations longer and more complex, but it was okay! And she also said that it wasn’t going to be perf...
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Meet Me at the Barre: August 2015
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Watching How Ballet Sausage is Made. Here is a list of some of the things I am watching as I try not to FREAK OUT. 1) Agony and Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet. This recently went up on Netflix. There is also a very amusing principal dancer who is a total male diva. And it's nice that they show the complete ballet at the end (I think it's all of it, or a very lengthy excerpt). Have you seen these? The creatio...
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Meet Me at the Barre: What I Wear to Ballet as an Adult Beginner
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Meet Me at the Barre. Journal of a Ballet Adult Beginner. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. What I Wear to Ballet as an Adult Beginner. It seems there is a lot of adult beginner ballet discussion about what to wear to class. Pink tights versus black, tights over or under, footed or footless, leotard or no leotard, which warm-ups, etc. I wear a leotard, usually black, and tights, also usually black. Why so much black? I have a few color leotards.grey is a color, right? I wear transition or footless tights, because ...
