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Showing posts with label lpbc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lpbc. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2024
It's still summer in the studio!
Monday, July 1, 2024
Summer is here! Dance in the cool studio!
July 2024 schedule
Wednesdays
Our first East Coast Ballet All Day workshops!
June 1st was a smashing success!
We had so much fun working with the dancers who attended our very first Ballet All Day event in Kingston, MA. Company members Amanda Singrassia (who owns Dreamworks Performing Arts Center & Wellness where we held the workshops) and Asher Taylor-Dawson not only taught Partnering but also performed with their respective dance partners, Cisco Sanchez and Tamar Cohen, which was such a treat for all of us. Company member Tom Misnik joined us too, coming all the way from Philadelphia.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. Can't wait for the next one!
6:45-8:15PM - Beginner ballet
8:15-9:15PM - Beginner jazz (Leigh's Dance Party!)
Thursdays (No classes July 4th!)
6:30-8PM - Basic ballet
8-9:30PM - Open level ballet
Saturdays
9:30-11AM - Beginner ballet
11AM-12PM - Pointe/pre-pointe
Sundays
8:15-9:15PM - Beginner jazz (Leigh's Dance Party!)
Thursdays (No classes July 4th!)
6:30-8PM - Basic ballet
8-9:30PM - Open level ballet
Saturdays
9:30-11AM - Beginner ballet
11AM-12PM - Pointe/pre-pointe
Sundays
10-11:30AM - Intermediate ballet
11:30AM-1PM - Basic ballet
11:30AM-1PM - Basic ballet
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LET'S DANCE ALL SUMMER LONG!
Aside from Independence Day, I will be teaching all of July and the rest of the summer. It's a great time to be in the studio, especially when you need a break from the heat.
More fun - Zumba party with LPBC!
Company members MaLisa Martin and Samantha Mahony are holding Zumba classes on Friday nights at Inspire, 6:15-7:15PM. Loads of fun, great Latin music to dance to, and 1/3 of the proceeds will go to the company. It's win-win-win!
Aside from Independence Day, I will be teaching all of July and the rest of the summer. It's a great time to be in the studio, especially when you need a break from the heat.
More fun - Zumba party with LPBC!
Company members MaLisa Martin and Samantha Mahony are holding Zumba classes on Friday nights at Inspire, 6:15-7:15PM. Loads of fun, great Latin music to dance to, and 1/3 of the proceeds will go to the company. It's win-win-win!
LPBC News
Our first East Coast Ballet All Day workshops!
June 1st was a smashing success!
We had so much fun working with the dancers who attended our very first Ballet All Day event in Kingston, MA. Company members Amanda Singrassia (who owns Dreamworks Performing Arts Center & Wellness where we held the workshops) and Asher Taylor-Dawson not only taught Partnering but also performed with their respective dance partners, Cisco Sanchez and Tamar Cohen, which was such a treat for all of us. Company member Tom Misnik joined us too, coming all the way from Philadelphia.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. Can't wait for the next one!
Did you miss LPBC's video for Pride Month?
Check out the beautiful original duet created by Alexes Togiai Ciardi, Elena Castellanos, Jamie Haley and Jim Luna, performed by Alexes and Elena. Link here.
Check out the beautiful original duet created by Alexes Togiai Ciardi, Elena Castellanos, Jamie Haley and Jim Luna, performed by Alexes and Elena. Link here.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
March newsletter includes lots of updates!
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April 2021 Newsletter is the BACK TO STUDIO edition!
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Monday, February 1, 2021
February Newsletter!
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ay, February 14, 5-6PM PST - No ballet experience necessary for your partner. It will help if you know arabesque, attitude and sousous. Only $20 for you and your partner. Sign up 
Thursday, January 9, 2020
First Newsletter of 2020 and a Personal Teaching Resolution
Happy New Year, beautiful dancers! I'm excited about so many things coming in 2020 (company intention on 1/12, new Sunday class starting on 2/2, a big fundraiser for the company, and of course, season 4 of Sweet Sorrow, A Zombie Ballet!). I put it all in a newsletter which you can have delivered to your very own inbox if you'd prefer to read it there - just click on the browser link below to subscribe. I only send it once a month and I promise I won't spam you.
Before I post that, however, I'd like to talk about a personal resolution I want to make in my teaching:
I will strive to take gendered pronouns and traditional gender norms out of my class.
This will be, I admit, difficult for me. My natural reflex is to greet people as "ladies and gentlemen," to divide groups or partner dancers based on gender, and to identify steps as gendered. I don't mind the reference when it's used with me but that's me and I'm ancient.
However, I am conscious of gendered roles in my choreography and I do what I can (and what fits the story) to not fall prey to the easy nature of stereotypes. For instance, my Rosaline is no frail princess waiting to be rescued by Benvolio; my pointe partnering includes women partnering women; and every woman's role in Hotel at the End of the Universe is a feminist one. I work very hard to empower women, on the stage and in the studio.
I have already begun excising "ladies and gentlemen" to call out my groups, instead saying "dancers" when I can. Just as I ask permission before touching someone in class to make a correction, I will also ask dancers if they prefer a specific pronoun be used with them when it feels appropriate, and I won't assume the answer.
As with all of ballet, the repetition of certain actions on a regular basis soon becomes muscle memory. We do a million tendus so we don't have think of how to do one; similarly, the more often I can refrain from gender norms in my class and choreography, the less cumbersome it will appear - and I will only have to think about what to do with the dancers, not how to address them.
Before I post that, however, I'd like to talk about a personal resolution I want to make in my teaching:
I will strive to take gendered pronouns and traditional gender norms out of my class.
This will be, I admit, difficult for me. My natural reflex is to greet people as "ladies and gentlemen," to divide groups or partner dancers based on gender, and to identify steps as gendered. I don't mind the reference when it's used with me but that's me and I'm ancient.
However, I am conscious of gendered roles in my choreography and I do what I can (and what fits the story) to not fall prey to the easy nature of stereotypes. For instance, my Rosaline is no frail princess waiting to be rescued by Benvolio; my pointe partnering includes women partnering women; and every woman's role in Hotel at the End of the Universe is a feminist one. I work very hard to empower women, on the stage and in the studio.
I have already begun excising "ladies and gentlemen" to call out my groups, instead saying "dancers" when I can. Just as I ask permission before touching someone in class to make a correction, I will also ask dancers if they prefer a specific pronoun be used with them when it feels appropriate, and I won't assume the answer.
As with all of ballet, the repetition of certain actions on a regular basis soon becomes muscle memory. We do a million tendus so we don't have think of how to do one; similarly, the more often I can refrain from gender norms in my class and choreography, the less cumbersome it will appear - and I will only have to think about what to do with the dancers, not how to address them.
~HAPPY 2020~
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January 2020 schedule
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Vacation reminder, studio location change and GALA!
Local dancers, friends of dancers, company members, friends of company members and patrons of ballet/dance/the arts, a few housekeeping items before summer is fully upon us:
1. Vacation!
After my company's Gala on June 29th (do you have your tickets yet? Get them at Eventbrite!), I will be taking a week off to visit with my parents and to recharge my batteries for new classes and new choreography for the October show.
Last classes BEFORE vacation:
Saturday, June 29th, Inspire Dance Studio
9AM Beginner
10:15AM Intermediate
11:35AM Pointe
First classes AFTER vacation:
Monday, July 8th, Inspire Dance Studio
6:30PM Intermediate
8PM Beginner
2. New classes/new locations!
With the closing of Dance Arts Academy at the end of June, I will be moving my Tuesday and Thursday Advanced Beginner classes to new studios.
Tuesday 7PM Advanced Beginner moves to Live Arts LA:
Starting July 9th
4210 Panamint St
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Thursday 7PM Advanced Beginner moves to Inspire Dance Studio:
Starting July 11th
457 Foothill Blvd
La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
3. Gala!
Come see my company perform its brand new original ballet, Hotel at the End of the Universe, about a time-traveling hotel that visits the Roaring 20s, the Far Future, the Jazz Age and more! Also, our fabulous invited guests will be performing in the second half of the show: Esencia Flamenca, Gulistan Dance Theater, Free2BeMe dancers, Terpischore Now, and Christina Carlisi as Martha Graham. Our hosts for the evening will be Matt Marr and Jake Anthony from CabarGAY.
It's one-night ONLY for a Galactic good time!
Saturday, June 29th, 7PM at the Colony Theatre:
555 N 3rd St
Burbank, CA 91502
Get your tickets at Eventbrite!
1. Vacation!
After my company's Gala on June 29th (do you have your tickets yet? Get them at Eventbrite!), I will be taking a week off to visit with my parents and to recharge my batteries for new classes and new choreography for the October show.
Last classes BEFORE vacation:
Saturday, June 29th, Inspire Dance Studio
9AM Beginner
10:15AM Intermediate
11:35AM Pointe
First classes AFTER vacation:
Monday, July 8th, Inspire Dance Studio
6:30PM Intermediate
8PM Beginner
2. New classes/new locations!
With the closing of Dance Arts Academy at the end of June, I will be moving my Tuesday and Thursday Advanced Beginner classes to new studios.
Tuesday 7PM Advanced Beginner moves to Live Arts LA:
Starting July 9th
4210 Panamint St
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Thursday 7PM Advanced Beginner moves to Inspire Dance Studio:
Starting July 11th
457 Foothill Blvd
La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
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| Happy that I've found a new studio! |
Come see my company perform its brand new original ballet, Hotel at the End of the Universe, about a time-traveling hotel that visits the Roaring 20s, the Far Future, the Jazz Age and more! Also, our fabulous invited guests will be performing in the second half of the show: Esencia Flamenca, Gulistan Dance Theater, Free2BeMe dancers, Terpischore Now, and Christina Carlisi as Martha Graham. Our hosts for the evening will be Matt Marr and Jake Anthony from CabarGAY.
It's one-night ONLY for a Galactic good time!
Saturday, June 29th, 7PM at the Colony Theatre:
555 N 3rd St
Burbank, CA 91502
Get your tickets at Eventbrite!
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