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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Port de bras #2 a lá poulet
Port de bras #2 makes me think of semaphore. I wonder what we are signaling?
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged adult beginner, ballet, ballet arms, chicken, grace, port de bras, Vaganova
11 Comments
Culture POP hearts Adult Beginner
Hey, check this: Adult Beginner is featured on style art and design site Culture POP. Neat! The feature is an excerpt from this interview with 4dancers. Double neat!
Posted in Guest Post yo! And interviews, yo!, Uncategorized
Tagged 4dancers, adult beginner, ballet, Culture Pop
2 Comments
Epic Winning!
I won! I won I won! Hee! Ok well not the whole thing. Don’t get to wear the Top Dance Blog Blogging Crown. But Adult Beginner did win the Adult Dancer category, so Imma just go ahead and put on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, whuuuut?
Tagged adult beginner, adult dancer, ballet, dance advantage, sparkly, top dance blogs, winning
10 Comments
Five Gold Rings!
Have learned to do all my pencil drawing in the second layer, leaving the first layer blank so I can go back and color it if I want. Which I didn’t here. Although I tried! Tried a black background, tried … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 12 days, adult beginner, ArtRage, ballerina, ballet, ballet sign language, cosmonaut stylus, iPad, rings, tutu
4 Comments
Let’s trade!
Ok so way back when I bought my ballet slippers, which you can read about here if you wanna, I asked the sales lady if the slippers have a left and a right? And she was like, No, ya big … Continue reading
Posted in OMG outfits you guys!, Uncategorized
Tagged adult beginner, ballet, ballet slippers, canvas, Capezio, free offer, pink, trade
41 Comments
Should’ve made that a Double latté.
So, Monday morning, roll up in to work, boss asks, “do anything fun this weekend?” And I’m like, “yeah! Totally went to see the Scottish Ballet!” Boss says, “Neat, what’d they dance?” I’m all, “um, it was two contemporary pieces?” … Continue reading
Posted in Movies and live stuff, Uncategorized
Tagged adult beginner, bad behavior, ballet, contemporary, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, gauche, Mahler, Scottish Ballet, tiara
20 Comments
Blue Ballerina, circa 1985
The Box came! And in the box was this sketchbook. From 1985. I know because it’s graded, first semester: A+ Superb! Second semester: B+ Turned In Late. I was eight. Guess I was Real Busy. Anyway, wanted to share this … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings of great sillitude, Uncategorized
Tagged ballerina, ballet, blue, checkered floor, colored pencil, drawing, nightmare, pointe
20 Comments
Ballet, there for you at the end of a hard day
Ok so there’s this box. Somewhere in my parents house. Packed it up eleven years ago. It’s my photo albums: baby, child, teenager; all the sketch books from, like, age can-just-hold-a-pencil up to seventeen; high school year books, and I … Continue reading