Comments on: ? falling meteor = shooting star ? http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: cathy http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-949 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:09:40 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-949 yeah okay i forgot to add that to my next post, so I am telling here! I don't have actually any funny story; but my ''stage accident'' happened last year, when doing this solo to Peter Pan ( I was that indian - lily tiger that is??) my pirouette didn't work as expected! I landed BADLY, shaking and you know the rest. =S And it was exactly on that day when ALL my friends were watching! yeah okay i forgot to add that to my next post, so I am telling here!
I don’t have actually any funny story; but my ‘’stage accident'’ happened last year, when doing this solo to Peter Pan ( I was that indian - lily tiger that is??) my pirouette didn’t work as expected! I landed BADLY, shaking and you know the rest. =S And it was exactly on that day when ALL my friends were watching!

]]> by: Michelle http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-948 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:05:43 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-948 This post is so lost on me... Even *without* dancing I can embarrass myself in countless ways! I mean, sometimes I walk right into solid walls! :D I don't even know why: I SEE the wall and there is nothing wrong with my coordination (though you might think differently when watching me in ballet class, lol!), but on some level I always expect it to make room in its atomic structure so that I can walk through it... It never does, though! :D This post is so lost on me… Even *without* dancing I can embarrass myself in countless ways!
I mean, sometimes I walk right into solid walls! :D
I don’t even know why: I SEE the wall and there is nothing wrong with my coordination (though you might think differently when watching me in ballet class, lol!), but on some level I always expect it to make room in its atomic structure so that I can walk through it…
It never does, though! :D

]]> by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-947 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:43:50 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-947 (I meant ball-busting ballroom dancer, ha ha!) And where are the pros' confessions? So far it's all the amateurs who are fessing up to their mishaps!!! I read an interview with David where he said one time he ran too fast toward Michele and slipped on her toe shoe, but he didn't say he actually fell, and knowing David, the audience didn't notice a thing. And, after a dance student fell in the Youth Grand Prix earlier this year, to make her feel better, Christopher Wheeldon, the host, came out onstage and told the audience about a time when he got blinded in his animal costume and missed the curtain, and ended up wandering around the front of the stage long after the next scene had begun... More funny professional mistakes, please :):) (I meant ball-busting ballroom dancer, ha ha!) And where are the pros’ confessions? So far it’s all the amateurs who are fessing up to their mishaps!!! I read an interview with David where he said one time he ran too fast toward Michele and slipped on her toe shoe, but he didn’t say he actually fell, and knowing David, the audience didn’t notice a thing. And, after a dance student fell in the Youth Grand Prix earlier this year, to make her feel better, Christopher Wheeldon, the host, came out onstage and told the audience about a time when he got blinded in his animal costume and missed the curtain, and ended up wandering around the front of the stage long after the next scene had begun… More funny professional mistakes, please :) :)

]]> by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-946 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:38:28 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-946 ha ha -- I'm the ballroom dancer, but it is sometimes confusing how the person's name is on bottom instead of top of the post! But it's funny because Chimene (our brilliant doctor to be who frequently comments!) is a sometime ballroom dancer too, -- she's just not insane enough to actually try doing it in front of a real audience!! Thanks for the advice, Evan! I know, I know, practice makes perfect -- I just hope my teacher, Luis's, crotch and head survive my attempts... p.s.: I will tell him your little nickname for me (ballroom busting ballroom dancer)-- he will LOVE it :):):) ha ha — I’m the ballroom dancer, but it is sometimes confusing how the person’s name is on bottom instead of top of the post! But it’s funny because Chimene (our brilliant doctor to be who frequently comments!) is a sometime ballroom dancer too, — she’s just not insane enough to actually try doing it in front of a real audience!! Thanks for the advice, Evan! I know, I know, practice makes perfect — I just hope my teacher, Luis’s, crotch and head survive my attempts… p.s.: I will tell him your little nickname for me (ballroom busting ballroom dancer)– he will LOVE it :) :):)

]]> by: EVAN MCKIE http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-945 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:02:38 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-945 Haha such quick replies! Thanks for the comliments! The truth is I enjoy the writing process here...so far. Thanks for putting up with my imperfect punctuation! ;) I am happy that you guys have started the cathartic sharing process..haha! (don't worry Chimene...you'll pull off your ball-busting ballroom stunts if you keep working it! but if not...you know where to turn...)wink) I was just telling Kristin that I won't be happy until we have all got our 'shit' on the table including/especially contributors to the sight... Then perhaps I may feel comfortable sharing one of my own 'choice' memories. ;) All z best! your-Evan M. Haha such quick replies! Thanks for the comliments! The truth is I enjoy the writing process here…so far. Thanks for putting up with my imperfect punctuation! ;)

I am happy that you guys have started the cathartic sharing process..haha! (don’t worry Chimene…you’ll pull off your ball-busting ballroom stunts if you keep working it! but if not…you know where to turn…)wink)

I was just telling Kristin that I won’t be happy until we have all got our ’shit’ on the table including/especially contributors to the sight… Then perhaps I may feel comfortable sharing one of my own ‘choice’ memories. ;)

All z best! your-Evan M.

]]> by: jennifer http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-944 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:21:51 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-944 I was dancing in the snow scene in the nutcracker many years ago....and I slipped in the fog. Of course it was being filmed by my proud parents. When you look at the video, it sorta looks cool cuz it looks like I slipped into the clouds. It was quite a discrete fall, almost silent...It was pretty graceful. (if I say so myself) Wait, Evan, why don't we hear any of your stories?? Not fair! I was dancing in the snow scene in the nutcracker many years ago….and I slipped in the fog. Of course it was being filmed by my proud parents. When you look at the video, it sorta looks cool cuz it looks like I slipped into the clouds. It was quite a discrete fall, almost silent…It was pretty graceful. (if I say so myself)

Wait, Evan, why don’t we hear any of your stories?? Not fair!

]]> by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-943 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:52:12 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-943 Oh my gawd -- thank you soooo much for this, Evan! I am just about to give my first rather big (for me!) student performance in my ballroom school's pro/am show, and I'm doing this crazy fast combo Latin routine (cha cha / samba / mambo combo) filled with lifts, crazy dips, and other 'tricks,' and since I have so little dance experience, it's extremely likely something will happen. For one thing, we do this thing called a snake (where my teacher dips me and then I slide backward between his legs and 'snake' around his body), and at first, when I was practicing in my soft Jazz shoes, we did fine; now that I'm wearing my Latin high heels that I will wear in show (which of course make me two inches taller), I can't seem to keep from cracking my hard head straight into his crotch on the way through -- not very pleasant-looking! And then I can't stop laughing afterward... And that is proceeded by this lift where I have to spin into him, then at lightning speed reach over his head and grab my ankle so he can pick me up and spin me around and around and around, and on the way up, I keep either kicking him in the back of the head with my foot or whacking him in the face with my arm, sometimes both. Then when he puts me down, since I am not a real dancer and have no sense of how to spot when I'm being spun in the air with my face toward the ceiling, I'm still spinning out of control in my head and feel the urge to really lose it while trying to finish with some big huge samba rolls and then a Latiny fish dive (which I could very well throw up on). It's like the beat-up-on-your-teacher routine, ending in toss-your-cookies fish dive... But now, I will think of your post and know that we are actually stealing the show!!!!! Oh my gawd — thank you soooo much for this, Evan! I am just about to give my first rather big (for me!) student performance in my ballroom school’s pro/am show, and I’m doing this crazy fast combo Latin routine (cha cha / samba / mambo combo) filled with lifts, crazy dips, and other ‘tricks,’ and since I have so little dance experience, it’s extremely likely something will happen. For one thing, we do this thing called a snake (where my teacher dips me and then I slide backward between his legs and ’snake’ around his body), and at first, when I was practicing in my soft Jazz shoes, we did fine; now that I’m wearing my Latin high heels that I will wear in show (which of course make me two inches taller), I can’t seem to keep from cracking my hard head straight into his crotch on the way through — not very pleasant-looking! And then I can’t stop laughing afterward… And that is proceeded by this lift where I have to spin into him, then at lightning speed reach over his head and grab my ankle so he can pick me up and spin me around and around and around, and on the way up, I keep either kicking him in the back of the head with my foot or whacking him in the face with my arm, sometimes both. Then when he puts me down, since I am not a real dancer and have no sense of how to spot when I’m being spun in the air with my face toward the ceiling, I’m still spinning out of control in my head and feel the urge to really lose it while trying to finish with some big huge samba rolls and then a Latiny fish dive (which I could very well throw up on). It’s like the beat-up-on-your-teacher routine, ending in toss-your-cookies fish dive… But now, I will think of your post and know that we are actually stealing the show!!!!!

]]> by: Chimene http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-942 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:11:16 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-942 Hi there, It is not just dancers that have bad moments but what about the shame and humiliation of stumbling in flats no less in front of a group of Sacramento Ballet dancers including the 2 principals. That 'ain't no fun' either. Fortunately, there was a bit of a crowd partially blocking most of the incident because it was a question & answer session, but still, heads and eyes turned in my direction. Thank God I was young and skinny back then. Today some 13 years and several more pounds later, I'd be more concerned with what bodaciously endowed body part might have been jostled loose than with the actual fall itself. ;-) As a medical student, I expect people to fall due to the force of gravity but, of course, it is all about looking good during the recovery. Break a leg, Chimene Hi there,

It is not just dancers that have bad moments but what about the shame and humiliation of stumbling in flats no less in front of a group of Sacramento Ballet dancers including the 2 principals. That ‘ain’t no fun’ either. Fortunately, there was a bit of a crowd partially blocking most of the incident because it was a question & answer session, but still, heads and eyes turned in my direction. Thank God I was young and skinny back then. Today some 13 years and several more pounds later, I’d be more concerned with what bodaciously endowed body part might have been jostled loose than with the actual fall itself. ;-) As a medical student, I expect people to fall due to the force of gravity but, of course, it is all about looking good during the recovery.

Break a leg,
Chimene

]]> by: Cathy http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-941 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:08:43 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2006/falling-meteor-shooting-star/#comment-941 Dear Evan! Another great and witty post! I must say again that you are a very good writer. I shall tell about some ''accident'' in ballet in my next post, good idea haha! see you around!! cathy Dear Evan!
Another great and witty post! I must say again that you are a very good writer.
I shall tell about some ‘’accident'’ in ballet in my next post, good idea haha!
see you around!!
cathy

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