I hope you dance through your next decade. I hope you wake up every morning so grateful for the opportunities the day will bring that you twirl in front of your bedroom mirror. I hope I do too. I want my stocking feet to dance so commonly across my kitchen floor that my Swiffer only [...]
Tag: dancing
Dancing for joy
My friend Elisabeth dances for joy. She also dances for a living and has jetéd herself into an elite group of people who have made their passion their profession. Elisabeth dances for Li Chiao-Ping Dance and the Catey Ott Dance Collective, and also works as a teacher/choreographer for the Valley Academy for the Arts. On [...]
If you keep on dancing, you’ll never grow old
I am, save a brief, glorious run in the 1968 Green Bay Park and Rec tap and ballet recital, a relegated kitchen dancer. Untrained but unfettered, I dance with dirty pots and pans, dish towels and brooms. I dance because the music moves me. It makes that post dinner pot-scouring time pass much more quickly, [...]
Dancing with the sweetest stars
We went to the Boogie Ballroom last Friday night to see Fundamentally Sound perform. We ended up falling in love with the Valley's newest dance studio and its charming owners, Zeke and Pamela Cribbs. A former Fundamentally Sound member, Zeke met Pamela in gospel choir class while they were both students at the University of [...]