Hey Wingers!

So this is my favourite one so far, and we just filmed this not too long ago. Our inspiration was ballroom and some tutting and just plain beserkness.

It’s done to the classic competition song Mortal Kombat! Enjoy!

We did our LOLAline Spring photo shoot in Emery LeCrone’s rehearsal of a new ballet for Columbia Ballet Collaborative.  The dancers featured are Nicole Cerutti, Alexandra Ignatius, Victoria North, Erin Arbuckle and Jen Barrer-Gall.  Photos by Steven Schreiber.

Emery thinks through a phrase she is about to teach in a Jade Shrug Off.

It was so much fun to be in Streng Studio at Barnard, being a fly on the wall in their rehearsal process.

Emery explains how best to get into the next move.

Nicole, Alex and Jen go for it! (Nicole is in the new Lemon Sheer Power)

The phrase they were working on was contemporary but definitely utilized all of their beautiful classical technique.

And hyper-extended elbow moments which I personally love!

And yes, those ballerinas will be doing floor work.  Alex, takes the moment of relaxation to work the Lemon cap sleeve Sputnik 2.

Stephanie Wolf, LOLAstretch New Media Intern, and I look on.

The choreographer’s world.

I love how Steven catches Jen in this moment, giving turnout in a flurry of movement.  She is in the newly brought back to life Sport Slender. (which we have not made in a few years now.)

And I think this one is my favorite!  Classic beautiful rehearsal shot.  Thanks Steven!

Time to go in groups with your like-minded leotard friend.  Nicole and Erin in unison.

Emery and Victoria work through a solo Emery has made for her.

It was such a great way to spend a couple hours and I couldn’t be more thankful to Emery and the dancers for letting us in to their behind-the-scenes world. (and looking so great in my new line all the while)

Now if only they could just manufacture the sun for us New Yorkers with all of their beautiful radiance…..

Enjoy!

Candice

Just posting the 3rd installment of our little mini series.

This one came from inspiration from the Fireflies song by Owl City.

We focused this time on organic internal techniques where it seems as you have ingested something and it takes hold of your body. The circle of life connects us all.

“Infection of the fireflies”

Enjoy!

Hey Wingers!

My friend Daniel and I have been doing these videos for a while where we make fun of ourselves and pair it with some horrible choreography to some classic music

Just thought I’d post our “series” on here. Although there aren’t proper release dates to our series, we film these videos usually when we’re backstage, or in rehearsal…  We suddenly feel the urge to create something horrible and entertaining for us. Hope you like it! This is the 2nd installment! The first one was posted on here about a year ago! This one in particular we are saluting or love for “try hard contemporary choreography”. Enjoy!

More are coming!

Join me on Monday night for just that:  the Guggenheim Works and Process presents EMOTION & MOTION With dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and Dr. Helen Fisher.  I will be tweeting this event live at 7:30p from @lolastretch and @worksandprocess.

I will take you, 140 characters at a time, through the lecture and performance as Clairemarie Osta and Mathieu Ganio, ?toile dancers from the internationally acclaimed Paris Opera Ballet, will interpret various stages of love through dance, with discussion on brain systems that evolved for reproduction: lust, romantic love, and attachment by renowned anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, author of Why We Love and Why Him? Why Her?.

Interspersed between excerpts from Giselle, Emeralds and Caligula,  Dr. Helen Fisher explores the connections between the dances and lust, romantic love and attachment.  Today’s NY Times also references Dr. Fisher in an article about the business of finding love.

Happy Valentine’s Day! and hope to interact with you all on Monday night via twitter feeds!

xo

Candice

Am installation demonstration at the Dance/NYC Symposium.

It’s super exciting to see projects like this in development. Imagine what this could do for the performing arts!

are being shared at the Dance/NYC Mid-Season Symposium.

Some super cool ideas and developments are taking place. Très cool!

I realize I tend to put up posts after events which can make it seem like all we do is get ready to perform or compete. This couldn’t be further from the truth! I have some of the hardest working students around who spend the majority of their free time in class. I have a nice group of high achievers at the STUDIO, many of them excel in much more than dance. All of them aspire to be the best they can be and I am truly lucky to be surrounded by young people who have such high hopes and bright futures. Those hopes weigh heavy on me as a teacher sometimes-it can be a great responsibility. When you run a small school you can run a danger of stagnating, dancers can at times get a false sense of how good they are, they can forget there is a whole world out there besides the 4 walls of our little studio! I make my best efforts to get them out there and see themselves in a different light. I love bringing in great teachers too. Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Valery Lantratov, he is the Artistic Director of the Russian National Ballet Foundation. He is from Moscow and had a career with the Moscow Stanislavski Ballet and was also named the “People’s Artist of Russia” in 1997 and spent some time as a guest teacher at Boston Ballet. He was an incredibly warm teacher, who stressed strong technique alongside expression.
It was a very rewarding class for my students.

Mr. Lantratov saying "hello" to his hand

Isabel, Mimi and Alston at the barre

Katie and Katrina

Happy dancers and teachers!