I wanted to let you know that BalletForAdults.com is now back to its original website, TheLastDancer.com. It is here where my voice comes through with the most honesty. In this past year, I also turned the big five-o and hope to be a part of the adult ballet world as long as I possibly can . . .
We dream of pirouettes . . .
George Balanchine was famously quoted saying, “ballet is woman”. He believed in the strength and seductive style female dancers brought to the stage. Of course, his specific standard of the ideal “woman” was incredibly high, if not ironic: small head, fair skin,…
I have a booty. Even when I struggled with anorexia in high school, I still looked like a stack of ribs with a rump roast in the back. When people asked me how I got my bodacious backside, I told them “it’s in the genes, and I don’t mean Levi’s.” Witty posterior…
If you’ve ever taught an adult ballet class, you know you have thought at least one of these things! Adult students, take note . . .
When you love to do something, you want to do it all the time. Ballet dancers are a particularly obsessed bunch – they’re always finding ways to incorporate the art form . . .