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Hello everyone!!!
I’ve had a very fulfilling and busy 2 weeks back home teaching and designing costumes and now I am back to school! Going back home to CA to teach was great because I definitely missed teaching and it’s really nice to know how much the kids have missed me. I have definitely missed them!
I’m done with my first week back to school and I am sore! I didn’t think I would be as sore because at least I was teaching and taking a few classes during my visit, but I guess it wasn’t enough. I have to comment on one my teachers, Jolinda. She’s probably one of the best ballet and pointe teachers I have ever had. Great teachers are very hard to come by, and she’s definitely one of them. I’ve had so many fabulous teachers in CA, but to find one here in NYC and at my school is just amazing. She pushes me, is really articulate about what she wants to see, definitely gives you great corrections and positive feedback when you do something good 
. I fortunately get to have her for ballet and pointe 3 times a week (I wish I had more!). I just had to say something about her because she’s a great teacher, and I hope to be able to teach and inspire students like her one day, especially in the ballet and pointe field.
It’s back to work with my choreography, and I have a few projects underway. I’m working a solo for my composition class, and every week we are to choreograph about 40 seconds to a minute to experience the choreographic and creative process. My teacher, Phyllis, doesn’t want us to whip out the entire solo right away. She wants us to add on a little bit every week so we can edit, and continue to think about our creative process as we’re doing it.
Another project I’m working on is a choreography piece for the 1st year MFA concert. It’s a concert that is only open to the 1st year MFA’s and we’re able to choreograph a piece if we like. Almost everyone is choreographing with the exception 1 or 2 people. I have 6 female dancers, and have already started rehearsals. I am working with the same composer I worked with last semester so I’m just waiting on the music so I can put the movement vocabulary in and tweak from there.
Lastly, my Composers, Choreographers, and Designers (CC&D) class requires that we choreograph a piece that utilizes a strong relationship with set designers, costume designers, and composers for music. We are allowed to think BIG. So this concert is normally very exciting and creative. I have 2 other partners in this project – Wen-Jen and Julia. We’ve come up with a great idea, but now we have to solidify our concept and think about how we’re going to try and portray that through movement.
Those are the projects I’m working on this semester! I will keep you all updated on the creative process and hopefully it’ll all work out!
Happy New Year everyone and thanks for reading!!!
Hope everyone had a beautiful holiday season and I know it was hard getting back into things, but here we are almost done with January already! How the time flies, it is truly amazing. I have my first ballroom competition coming up on February 12 at the Irvine Marriott called “California Open”. After my Christmas showcase I put on at my ballroom studio, I got a wonderful response from my students, their parents, my friends and family about my performance, it really gave me the boost I needed to just work work work to be the best I could be for this first time out on the floor. My partner has decided for the first few competitions to start me out at a little lower of a level so I will stand out and look polished and clean. After that, I will then change my routine and go into an open division, which allows me to do more steps that relate to ballet/lyrical background. In the american smooth divison, which is what I am competing in…there are only 4 dances in the category (waltz, tango, foxtrot and viennese waltz). I will keep you all updated an post some videos from my christmas show so you can see, but for now here are a couple of pictures.
Hi Danceworld readers!
So sorry I have been MIA for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been traveling all over the place during this holiday season and now I am finally back home in California.
I’ve been teaching almost everyday since I’ve been here and it has been absolutely GREAT. I’ve missed teaching very much and missed seeing my students. It’s so great to see how TALL everyone has gotten. Either that or I’m shrinking 
. I’ve had such a great holiday and there’s no better way than to finish it up by teaching some great dance classes.
For those of you who are interested here is a picture from my trip to Juneau, Alaska. I never made it to Florida due to the unforeseen circumstances at the Delta terminal, but I was able to spend more time with my fiancé and dogs.
Here is a picture of Chester and Me, Emma and Ernie our 2 samoyed dogs.
I’m here for one more week and am going to teach almost everyday. Here’s the rest of my schedule for those of you who are interested in taking class. I would love to have you there and would love to see you!
Monday, Jan. 11th
Teaching Blocks 4, 5, and 6 at OCHSA
Teaching at South County Dance 8:00-9:00pm Adv Contemp. Jazz
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Tuesday, Jan. 12th
Teaching at Elevation Studios 8:30-10:00pm Adv Contemp. Jazz
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Wednesday, Jan. 13th
Teaching at Boogiezone Contemporary classes at Focus Dance Center
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Thursday, Jan. 14th
Teaching at South County Dance 8:30-9:30pm Adv. Lyrical
Being in the entertainment industry dancers often find that we have the opposite schedule of most other people. We work when others are at leisure so they will hopefully come to see us perform. I have to admit this is hardest to deal with during the holiday season. When others are cuddled up at home with family and friends we are in the full grind of Nutcracker, our busiest time of year.