Today has been a giant mess of messness. I have insulted the work ethic of two people above me in the heirarchy, one to their face. Things I needed to get through today, only 2 of maybe 10 got done.
My mother is talking to me as if I am going to break, which I get, but makes me want to wail.
OK - to look at the good things:
- a neighbor is going out of town for a long weekend and is giving me her perishable food - free groceries - YAY!
- there's only an hour more of work
- no one called me today about late bills
- payday
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's on a roll."
I love when Gud gets inspirational.
We are generally having a good day here in my office, made better by burgers for lunch. Delivered!
However, I am going to be screwed next week by a project I should have done more on already. Ah well.
Stick knitting needles in your forearm?
I was thinking about spacing out and thinking about something I'd rather be working on. However, you know, to each their own.
Sorry about your no-good day, Barb.
So wouldn't today's young dancer/choreographer learn a different set of rules than previous generations did?
Well, this is true to a certain extent. But there are sets of rules (ideals is maybe better?) for specific schools of dance. It's roughly analogous to poetry, for example a modern student would learn the required structure for a sonnet or a villanelle in the same way that students have over the ages, right? That student might then insert a breaking phrase into a strict form and have something new and interesting...but not a sonnet.
And that's not the same thing as stringing a set of random couplets together and calling it a sonnet, ignoring all protests. Which is more of what I see on teevee dance of various claimed styles. Does that make sense?
Also, this
Debbie Allen /= modern dance. See Momix, David Parsons, ISO, Pilobolus... For modern ballet see Alvin Ailey, Gus Giordano, White Oak, Hubbard Street...
definitely, teevee to the contrary. There are some really fabulous things going on out there. Next time I have some bandwidth to spare I'll see if I can't rustle up some video to explain.
Jesus fucking christ, I have to call in to the 8:30 meeting tomorrow.
Would sticking knitting needles in your forearm be Granny Acupuncture? It WOULD have been less painful than a lot of my week. But things are improving ... and I'm full of food from the lunch we had for our president's retirement.
Dance ... I think for almost any school of dance there is a certain level of technique. Once you've mastered the technique, then breaking out and doing something different would be one thing, where just kind of making it up as you go would be another.
And, talking about dancing., this amuses me.
definitely, teevee to the contrary. There are some really fabulous things going on out there. Next time I have some bandwidth to spare I'll see if I can't rustle up some video to explain.
I actually
have
seen some non-debbie dance since I was a kid in the eighties. Honest. I was being silly -- and expressing my lingering distaste for compulsive floor-flinging.
In acting school I studied movement with Marlene Pennison which made various dancer friends twitter. (not Twitter)
