May 6, 2007 at 11:00 pm · Filed under SLOAN, motorcycle, sports, athletics, mobile, commute, chelsea piers, ice skating, gym
Posted by Sloan | via mobile phone
My parents used to be members and have climbed the rock wall a number of times. I feel like, as a former ice skater I should definitely try to check out the ice rink at some point too. Maybe now that I’m starting to feel a bit better and it’s so easy to get here (I pass it every day) I can take some time to check it out.
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January 27, 2007 at 9:49 am · Filed under ballet, dance, choreographers, dancers, modeling, designers, composers, art, japan, germany, fashion, EVAN MCKIE, dancing, athletics
Hi. My name is Evan. I am a bun-head. No denial.
…I have tried to be less-bunheady and I have millions of other hobbies but still, put a hard2find vintage dance vid infront of me and I become kind of a sucker…
…which is why I, ummmm, shamelessly troll through youTube.com when I get a chance. (am I the only one?..) It would be literally impossible to gather all of the golden gems (legal or not…) that the mega-site has to offer.
I found this random clip of the old Frankfurt Ballet having fun doing some Stephen Galloway choreography for an Issey Miyake show in the early 90’s (?)…. I know a few of the dancers(§$%&ing fantastic still..) and it’s so cool to see them rocking out! I love this time when Frankfurt Ballet wasn’t just on-the-map, it kind-of WAS the map! Because so many artists were so inspired by the Forsythe brand of movement from that period, there has been alot of similar stuff being produced all over the world ever since. Infact, I think we’ve sort of come full circle now in Europe…where old is new is old is new is….yeah so either way, I wish I coulda been there at that moment! I mean, I was like 8 but whatev!…
hmmmm maybe we should have a vintage youTube(or whatever tube your watching) week where everybody posts a rare clip that they’re kinda fond of for whatever reason….!!! (nice sentence-structure, thx)
sound fun?? yes? ok!
:)
-E
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January 24, 2007 at 6:31 am · Filed under ALEX, performing, miami city ballet, twyla tharp, athletics
| | Posted by Alex Wong
So, I am writing today because I just finished a peformance tonight and had a really funny feeling. I just did “In the Upper Room” today, and as you all probably already know, this ballet is such a marathon. However, today we performed it on a smaller stage (because we tour around florida) and it felt so much easier… now you would think that would be a good thing right? Well this is why I feel strange. Usually I am backstage, leaning forward, hands on my knees, out of my breath, wishing that I wasnt, but today I really actually wasn’t, and it just didnt feel right.
Normally, I am on stage, pushing with all my might, using that last little hair of energy I have left….using my breath to just keep going and hanging on to that… holding on to a cliff with all my strength, but today, it didnt happen for some reason, and I feel unsatisfied. I felt like I needed to be struggling to really FEEL what this piece was about. Since when do you feel better dancing when you are absolutely ripped to bits, dead and out of breath? I think this is what Twyla meant when she called the piece “In The Upper Room”. You get to a point where you are SO tired, SO out of breath, yet SO… high… in a crazy state of mind that you are just “in it”. Things become a blur and you ride along as the music is pounding in your ears, and you just go for it. And now I find that I am craving that feeling again… like a drug… that killer feeling when you are just pushing for it, when nothing matters, but yet everything matters, going for the finish line, that euphoric state of mind - so out of breath but so determined… it hurts, I can’t breathe, but yet I want it, and realize now that I love it, I need it and I want more. It’s a feeling of ecstacy that cannot even be explained in words.
I guess I really am IN The Upper Room”. I’m in it. THIS is what this piece is about. This is what dance is about. This is the real deal.
Jumping in #3.
Ballet in #4.
Stompers in #5.
#9…. this is where you start feeling it…
Almost the end of the ballet. I also need to say that without my fellow stompers Jeremy Cox and Daniel Baker, this feeling wouldnt be the same. When we dance, we dance as 1, I feel their energy and I feel connected to them in some crazy way.
Jeanette Delgado in #6
A picture of me in #9.
Thanks for reading!
-Alex
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