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August 14, 2008 at 4:49 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, studio, schools, savannah, students, VERONICA, the STUDIO, teacher, dance companies, american ballet theatre, summer intensive, dance classes
Many of my students go off to summer programs. This year I had kids at Chautauqua, the Rock School, ABT and Virginia School of the Arts.
I wanted to share some of their experiences with you all.
Alston, 10, went to Chautuaqua and the Rock School.
Here she is at Chautauqua with Patricia Mcbride:
Here’s some from her own post on TIM
“Amy Price was another one of our teachers. She choreographed our classical piece and our contemporary piece for the show at the end of the intensive. She was fun to have class with, but she still expected alot out of us.
This is a picture of Ms. Amy correcting me in pointe class.”
And here is Linzy and friend, also at Chautauqua. They both felt that is was a very special place to be.
Alston with Bo and Stephanie Spassoff at the Rock’s coaching intensive
Angela spent her second summer at Virginia School of the Arts.
I’m really proud of them they are all such special dancers and people. I have a few more to share with you in my next post.
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August 14, 2008 at 12:40 am · Filed under ballet, dance, dancers, dancing, VERONICA, the STUDIO
I realize it has been quite a long while since I have posted here.
I have been going through a lot since the Spring, personal and artistic burn-out.
Combined with the abrupt departure of one of my teachers-personal issues kept her from completing the last 4 weeks and the news that my long time teacher and friend Ms. Jil would be moving this fall and the overall lack of motivation among my students sent me into a period of questioning whether or not I would continue to do this.
Our Spring performance went very well though-it was in fact good-a rare moment when I actually feel as though I like what I’ve done. I chose Carmina Burana-interesting, challenging and not what the audience expects. I like that. It just so happened that there was a tornado that day-so we didn’t have the biggest audience and was actually lucky I had all of my dancers! Then 2 days later they all went off to their summer programs and I know they were as tired as I was.
So most of my summer has been spent with my family and throwing myself into DIY projects around my house.
My personal strength and faith in myself was totally gone-probably a couple of months before the show. This is not typical of me-I am everyone’s rock-but this time literally everything in my life was falling down around me. And so when I think it can’t get worse, I have a huge flare up with my rheumetoid arthritis. And right down at the bottom I am-and I remember that the RA was the reason I started dancing. Life is full of ups and downs, but you have to keep moving or you’ll stop. And so in realizing that-I will make it through everything. I also realize that teaching is a lot harder than being a dancer. Your students do not realize how much of yourself you give to them. So I decided to take class all summer with the kids and give in a different way and get some of myself back. Then there it is, that joy, I remember why I do this.
Enzo and Sofi, sunrise on Tybee-finding their inner dancer.
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April 19, 2008 at 11:06 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, hair, VERONICA, the STUDIO, youth america grand prix
What do you do after you perform at the Youth America Grand Prix Finals?????
HAIRCUT!!!!!!!!!
Alston danced beautifully today!
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February 25, 2008 at 5:53 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, savannah, contemporary, VERONICA, the STUDIO, youth america grand prix, competition, yagp
Well it was quite a weekend at the Youth America Grand Prix regional in Spartanburg, SC! A who’s who of young talent. All of my kids did very well-I am so proud of them. It was very intimidating and a lot of pressure. I am really tired so here is a quick post on our results:
Alston Macgill (pre-competitive) came in Third place and was invited to the finals in NY in April!!
Shakira Bell (pre-competitive) and Angela Novelli (SR Contemporary) both finished in the top 12.
The scoring was very tight due to the unbelievable amount of talent in all categories. I am very pleased with how they all did. Justin in particular brought the audience to tears with his moving performance. He narrowly missed the top 12 by tenths of a point. They certainly learned a lot this weekend and had a great experience.
Here are a few photos:
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February 22, 2008 at 4:04 am · Filed under ballet, dance, rehearsals, studio, dancers, savannah, contemporary, students, VERONICA, the STUDIO, youth america grand prix, competition, variations, pointe
We have been very busy at the STUDIO preparing for the Youth America Grand Prix regional in Spartanburg, SC! We are leaving in the morning and the dancers begin in the early evening. It has been quite a process for them all, the usual blood sweat and tears. I decided to take 8 dancers this year: Justin, Emma, Skye, Angela, Kieran, Linzy, Shakira and Alston. I am so proud of them all and excited to see them reach their personal goals. They are an incredible group of talented young dancers and people. It has been so nice to see them grow together-their support of each other is amazing.
Here are a few shots from our rehearsals. (photographs by the STUDIO’s unofficial, official photographer-Mary-Margaret Macgill)
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January 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, class, VERONICA, the STUDIO
The second day of the workshop the dancers came in very focused and ready to work. It was like everything they learned on Saturday sunk in overnight. I had asked Finis to work on turns with them, so after barre they worked on them for about an hour. They also spent an hour on jumps and an hour for pointe-revisiting the turns they worked on before. Finis has a way of explaining things that is really logical-you could see the lightbulbs popping up over their heads all day. I’m really glad I was able to get him to come to Savannah and the kids are already asking when he is coming back.
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