Archive for the ‘dance’ Category
Monday, August 25th, 2008
"It's more important to play with people you like than to play with people who are good."
B.B. King
that'll get me through another month of tango. at least i feel a little less bad that i don't have the guts to dance with the intimidating people.
Carrie and i pow-wowed ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
(by alejo)
don't know where i am. somewhere between desire and necessity.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
yesterday at the Colorful Socks practica, i defied all known fashion rules by wearing brown and pink argyle knee-high socks paired with black, red, and grey shorts.
it didn't matter though. i arrived at the yoga studio and closed my eyes while allowing indre to lead me through the hallways ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
for the skeptics, The Neuroscience of Dance. (thanks to Aditi)
"Dance is a fundamental form of human expression that likely evolved together with music as a way of generating rhythm. It requires specialized mental skills. One brain area houses a representation of the body’s orientation, helping to direct our movements through ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
the first evening, i felt cold.
your movements lengthened across the floor
and i watched as the clutches of your occasional grin
swept girl after girl into your billowing sails
(more often, i'd imagine you were a pilot,
and that my left side was your wind)
sometimes my long waits were melancholy,
and ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
i was riding in jason's car last night through durham and duke university campus, and i contemplated my 4 year duel with college life.
i realized that i missed out on a lot when i was in college.
we had some conversations about the mythical man-month, food, climbing through windows, ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
oh, New Orleans.
your torrential tears let loose on my jazzfest parade, but i danced anyway.
a cup of jambalaya and a helping of "mango freeze" later, i found myself desperately wanting to tango during one of Riccardo Crespo's "milongas." i had to settle for solo hip-shaking.
at one point, i ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
last night i braved the midwestern thunderstorms and visited the Wednesday-night milonga at Erato again. i usually sit and watch most of the time. robin playfully scolded me for sitting all isolated by myself on the couch. sometimes i prefer it; mostly because i'm shy as hell, but also because ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I subscribe to several tango newsletters and groups (nerdiness comes out again), and today I was sent an email detailing the fact that "tango in treating neurological patients has become an extremely hot topic after a neurosciences article from McGill medical school about memory improvement after dancing tango."
The St. Louis ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
a couple months ago, i was eating in a restaurant with a group of people and an acquaintance started a conversation with me about social/club dancing. the dialogue meandered along until a brick dropped out of his mouth onto my foot.
"Asian girls can't dance."
um. what? i was about to push ...
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