I had a delightful evening filled with contemporary dancing, some hip hop, and a lobster. If you don't know what I am talking about, it's the up and coming dance company in Burlington, WI called Sparrow Dance with artistic director Helaina Callahan.
Last night, I got the chance to see their performance, and I thought they did a very professional job. The show was a mixture of humorous and serious pieces throughout the evening, and the performance had influences from Ballet, Modern, African, Hip Hop, and Post Modern along with some live music. I really enjoyed the balance of entertaining and thought provoking works. It was wonderful production.
They have two more performances today which are at 3pm and 7pm. They are performing at Wilmot Union High School. Tickets are $12, and you gotta bring cash. I ended up digging out some change for I never am prepared.
Sparrow Dance is a treat to see, and I look forward to future events from them! Check them out later today or tonight as well as on Facebook.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Two Step, Line Dance, Gumbo, and Bridge
Back from Texas with some tales...
I had a difficult time finding places in Tomball where adults dance. In checking out the library which was apart of a technical college, I found that they offered dance as an elective - never heard back from them about non-students taking dance classes. So then I browsed a few dance studios in the area, and checked into taking classes.
They were all for children which yes the argument can be made that I am an over sized child, but I wanted a Danceworks reincarnated. I did however end up finding work with one of those dance studios, Velocity Performing Arts Center, teaching 3-5 year olds Ballet, Tap, and Creative Movement along with 7-9 year olds beg. Jazz which was a blast. Being my first dance studio job, it was a challenge. I developed my own rhythm though after some time, and by the time we found out we were moving back to Wisconsin, I was sore to say goodbye.
Getting off track a little... I still hadn't found a place to dance with grown-ups so I looked into the community center in town, and found that they offered a slew of classes in different subjects from Zumba to line dancing to needlework.... that should have been my cue for what was coming next. I joined in for my first lesson of line dancing, and was pleasantly surprised when I was the youngest person in the room. The gap was probably, oh, a mere 40 years difference, and they were some of the coolest ladies ever.
One of which, Mary Ann, adopted me as her Wisconsin grandchild right away. I still check in to update her on my life. She taught me to cook some awesome food including: chicken dumpling soup, jalapeno cornbread, lasagna, cream puffs (with 0 sugars), meatloaf, chili, and gumbo. If you have never tried gumbo, I make it real mean - the spice is almost entirely in the Italian hot sausage that I love so much, and it will make your nose run. I never liked to cook. I don't know how she got me to make all those delicious meals, but I now have a growing repertoire in my cookbook.
Mary Ann also introduced me to a card game called Bridge which I am now a junky. Bridge is probably one of the hardest card games to learn, and the most addictive games to play - thankfully it's not a gambling game. Playing bridge, I became pretty good, and could have went on to be great!
I also became heavily addicted to Karaoke on a regular basis. It has been difficult being back where I can't rely on there being Karaoke every night of the week... I do have a few spots where I can get my fix up in Wisconsin. Some good times with good people.
This is probably just half of the stories I've got to tell since I had 3 jobs at one time, and studied for a few months with Fred Astaire to teach ballroom where I learned how to Two Step -which is basically a casual Fox Trot. I don't make any promises that I will get around telling all the stories, but one can hope.
I had a difficult time finding places in Tomball where adults dance. In checking out the library which was apart of a technical college, I found that they offered dance as an elective - never heard back from them about non-students taking dance classes. So then I browsed a few dance studios in the area, and checked into taking classes.
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| Photo Taken from VPAC on facebook |
Getting off track a little... I still hadn't found a place to dance with grown-ups so I looked into the community center in town, and found that they offered a slew of classes in different subjects from Zumba to line dancing to needlework.... that should have been my cue for what was coming next. I joined in for my first lesson of line dancing, and was pleasantly surprised when I was the youngest person in the room. The gap was probably, oh, a mere 40 years difference, and they were some of the coolest ladies ever.
One of which, Mary Ann, adopted me as her Wisconsin grandchild right away. I still check in to update her on my life. She taught me to cook some awesome food including: chicken dumpling soup, jalapeno cornbread, lasagna, cream puffs (with 0 sugars), meatloaf, chili, and gumbo. If you have never tried gumbo, I make it real mean - the spice is almost entirely in the Italian hot sausage that I love so much, and it will make your nose run. I never liked to cook. I don't know how she got me to make all those delicious meals, but I now have a growing repertoire in my cookbook.
Mary Ann also introduced me to a card game called Bridge which I am now a junky. Bridge is probably one of the hardest card games to learn, and the most addictive games to play - thankfully it's not a gambling game. Playing bridge, I became pretty good, and could have went on to be great!
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| Bye Texas! |
This is probably just half of the stories I've got to tell since I had 3 jobs at one time, and studied for a few months with Fred Astaire to teach ballroom where I learned how to Two Step -which is basically a casual Fox Trot. I don't make any promises that I will get around telling all the stories, but one can hope.
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