Archive for April, 2009
Inspiration and Being Blessed
Sometimes I feel like I just want to quit. However. I realize how lucky I am to have this gift and to treasure every moment I get to dance and entertain.
Liu Yan, who was paralyzed right before she was to perform in the Beijing Olympics shows me that things can happen and that I need [...]
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Tags: dance
According to this NY Times Article, Cirque du Soleil is trying to establish itself more permanently here in the entertainment capital of the US. I am pretty excited about this.
In other news, our senior show finished this last weekend and I am suffering from post-show depression. Thus, the lack of updates.
In other other news, [...]
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Silliness
Here’s an update on my personal life.
A few weeks ago, I was accepted into a company then my acceptance was rescinded because all of the company’s rehearsals conflicted with my rehearsals for my senior concert. I emailed the artistic director a few days ago and finally received an email back stating that they no longer [...]
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Tags: dance, disney, personal
There are some shady things happening at Texas Ballet Theater, apparently.
According to this article, TBT has been dealing in some not-so-smart ideas since the company nearly folded almost a year ago. The company bounced back, however, and are still going strong but not without financial problems and lots of drama.
For example, in order to [...]
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Tags: Ballet, dance
This New York Times article describes a problem that is hurting all of Broadway but how it can even be worse for Disney who currently runs three Broadway shows at the same time. This essentially means Disney has to have the musicals compete with themselves for audiences.
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Tags: dance, disney, new york
Super Heroes = Dancers? Yes
Jon M. Chu is a brilliant man. Why? Because he has combined two of my favorite things in the world: dance and comic book heroes. You can judge all you want but I think this series is going to be interesting not to mention the idea is very creative.The official website [...]
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Tags: dance
Melody Herrera’s Marie Diary
Dance Spirit has Melody Herrera’s Marie diary. For those of you not in the know, Marie is a ballet by Stanton Welch about everyone’s favorite monarch to hate, Marie Antoinette. I personally love Marie Antoinette because I was awesome enough to have played her during my World History class’s role play of the French Revolution. [...]
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Tags: Ballet, dance
I finished Prologue by Joan Brady. It was a very interesting memoir but definitely only for those who like tell-all tales. I don’t really want to spoil it for those who want to read it but it was inspiring to me as someone who had quit dance as a child and took it back up [...]
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Tags: dance, reading list
Bantown, Glitch, or Bad Ideas?
Yesterday, twitter exploded with the hashtag #amazonfail. I don’t know how to describe this in a smart way so here you go:
Wall Street
Dely – The Voice of Reason
Weev – Meta Troll *See below link for explanation.
SF_Drama – Explanation of What Meta Troll IS
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Tags: #amazonfail, lulz, off topic
