Dear Madonna,
Well tomorrow's the big day: our International Dance Day performance at the Eaton Centre. We have one more rehearsal tonight in the actual space, around the fountain. I'm coming on fairly early in the dance but I still have to pretend to be an ordinary shopper, feigning interest in a store window or something when the music starts - then running (and dancing) into position on cue.
I'm going to miss rehearsals at the National Ballet School. In fact I very nearly *missed* the last rehearsal there on Monday. In a panic to be on time I grabbed a cab and when I told him "400 Jarvis" he said right away: "Ah - the National Ballet School", asking if I was a ballerina. Not wanting to make things complicated I laughed and said something like "wannabee ballerina", though I don't know if he understood.
Then he starting talking about how I must like Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, and fiddling with the radio until he found a classical station. He may have even been Russian himself. We both fell silent when something sweet and soothing was found, putting my rattled nerves at ease so that I arrived relaxed and ready to dance.
He dropped me off at the same place all the other ballerinas were being dropped off.
Julie
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
SATC Meets WCS
Dear Madonna,
So I finally saw the tribute to you that aired on Glee this week; PA sent me a link.
It's actually the first time I've seen the show. I don't watch much TV. Thanks to a little Christmas Elf, though, I have the complete DVD collection of Sex and the City. I like to put on a single episode late at night when I come home from dancing - kind of like my own SATC-TV.
Lately I've started to fantasize about what it would be like if the characters from Sex and the City danced West Coast Swing...
Charlotte would have a classic approach to the dance, preferring 6- and 8-count patterns to crazy amalgamations. Her syncopations would always be feminine, lady-like, and perfectly chosen to accompany accents in the music. I see her as a very focused and strategic competitor - always searching for the perfect partner to do Strictlys, and ultimately grooming someone to compete with her in Rising Star.
Miranda is also a no-fluff kind of dancer, and is pretty strict about keeping things inside the dance ("It's walk, walk, triple, triple - how hard can that be?"). In Jack & Jills she's a bit of a magnet for, uh, "challenging" draws. She has a slightly addictive personality so stays up very late social dancing at events, still getting up early for the morning workshops. She loves dancing to Blues more than contemporary and watches YouTube clips constantly.
Samantha of course is the consumate Jack & Jill competitor - anything more than a minute with a single partner and she gets bored. She's more than happy to dance outside the box, is a little more "out there" in her styling - which is always executed with complete confidence. Sam's up for anything that will give her more floor-time: Bookends, Three-ways, and anything with lifts and tricks. She lives for dancing spotlight.
Carrie has a kind of style of dancing West Coast that somehow only she can get away with. Even her Jack & Jill outfits are risky: she gets noticed on the dance floor but has had more than one wardrobe malfunction. Carrie's always questioning her own abilities, and takes a ton of Private lessons, making copious notes - on her lap-top, of course. She owns an inordinate number of dance shoes.
New York, the "fifth girl" in the series, happens to be where I saw West Coast Swing the first time and where some of my best memories of the dance were formed. Like West Coast Swing it's exciting, challenging, and resilient - always evolving but true to its own, unique essence.
Hmm - kind of like someone else I know.
Until next time....vogue, vogue, vogue, vogue
Julie
So I finally saw the tribute to you that aired on Glee this week; PA sent me a link.
It's actually the first time I've seen the show. I don't watch much TV. Thanks to a little Christmas Elf, though, I have the complete DVD collection of Sex and the City. I like to put on a single episode late at night when I come home from dancing - kind of like my own SATC-TV.
Lately I've started to fantasize about what it would be like if the characters from Sex and the City danced West Coast Swing...
Charlotte would have a classic approach to the dance, preferring 6- and 8-count patterns to crazy amalgamations. Her syncopations would always be feminine, lady-like, and perfectly chosen to accompany accents in the music. I see her as a very focused and strategic competitor - always searching for the perfect partner to do Strictlys, and ultimately grooming someone to compete with her in Rising Star.
Miranda is also a no-fluff kind of dancer, and is pretty strict about keeping things inside the dance ("It's walk, walk, triple, triple - how hard can that be?"). In Jack & Jills she's a bit of a magnet for, uh, "challenging" draws. She has a slightly addictive personality so stays up very late social dancing at events, still getting up early for the morning workshops. She loves dancing to Blues more than contemporary and watches YouTube clips constantly.
Samantha of course is the consumate Jack & Jill competitor - anything more than a minute with a single partner and she gets bored. She's more than happy to dance outside the box, is a little more "out there" in her styling - which is always executed with complete confidence. Sam's up for anything that will give her more floor-time: Bookends, Three-ways, and anything with lifts and tricks. She lives for dancing spotlight.
Carrie has a kind of style of dancing West Coast that somehow only she can get away with. Even her Jack & Jill outfits are risky: she gets noticed on the dance floor but has had more than one wardrobe malfunction. Carrie's always questioning her own abilities, and takes a ton of Private lessons, making copious notes - on her lap-top, of course. She owns an inordinate number of dance shoes.
New York, the "fifth girl" in the series, happens to be where I saw West Coast Swing the first time and where some of my best memories of the dance were formed. Like West Coast Swing it's exciting, challenging, and resilient - always evolving but true to its own, unique essence.
Hmm - kind of like someone else I know.
Until next time....vogue, vogue, vogue, vogue
Julie
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