It’s been a while since my last #MonthlyMessage post – over three months, to be exact. March, April, and May passed in a blur, busy with commitments including choreographing my first full-length musical, teaching my regular workload, assisting with the...
I did something that felt a little bit radical back in January: I bought a day planner. Yes, even in the midst of the continued uncertainty of these “pandemic times,” I stepped out in faith and spent $25 on a fancy calendar. Things are returning to...
We are 15 days into the new year, and I’ve already found my mantra for 2021: “The only way to do it, is to do it.” When I sat down to write lesson plans, and got caught in a flashback to January 2020. I thought about how much had changed...
As a dance educator and choreographer, I’m always thinking about transitions. Dance technique is full of transitional movements that make all the difference: that perfect preparation before the pirouette, that luxurious undercurve in the triplet, that sublime...
October’s #MonthlyMessage dovetails off a recent post in one of my other blog series, ArtistMotherWife. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity. As I wrote in the other post, the dance world is fueled by over-productive people whose genuine...
