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Popping into Palais Garnier
So, I was in the neighborhood of Paris’s Palais Garnier the other day—you know how that goes, just a weekday drop-by on a free afternoon—and I decided to invest in the 10 euro price to tour the opera...
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Ballet class in Paris: I dare you
**Coming this fall: Book 2 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles! Still haven’t read OFF BALANCE, Book 1? Through the summer it’s only $2.99! Check it out HERE ** The dare, of course, was to me, thrown out...
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Grown-Ups at the Barre
There is a wonderful blog called Grown-Ups at the Barre and when I saw it, I instantly fell in love with the concept, the collaborative effort and different points of views from various contributors....
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Artist’s Spotlight: Yuan Yuan Tan
Story has it, San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Yuan Yuan Tan’s career once hinged on one precipitous toss of a coin (ironically and coincidentally a Chinese yuan). She was ten, born and raised in...
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Ballerina Dreams
The other night I had a ballet dream. Not a dancing onstage kind, or one of those scary ones where you hear your cue but you’re trapped in your dressing room, two floors down, panicking that you’re...
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Classical Girl meets The Modern Classic
This is The Modern Classic, created by gwenyth. It’s an activewear top and tunic that’s great for ballet, yoga, summer attire, travel days, cocktail parties. All this in one garment. How cool is that?...
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5 other things I learned from ballet
This week at The Ajennda (www.theajennda.com) , a dance-related blog run by Jenn Romano, I was invited to contribute to the site’s “What I Learned From Ballet” section. I wrote a ruminative little...
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Ohad Naharin’s “Minus 16″
Last Friday night I attended Ballet San Jose’s “Neoclassical to Now,” the opening program of their 2014 season. Balanchine’s Serenade and Jorma Elo’s Glow-Stop were recognizable and memorable, but I...
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San Francisco Ballet’s Triple Treat: Maelstrom, Caprice, Rite of Spring
It was a night for music lovers, not just ballet lovers, last Saturday at the San Francisco Ballet. Beethoven’s Piano Trio no. 1, Saint Saens’ Symphony no. 2 (injected with the sublime 2nd movement...
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Classical Girl’s New Year’s resolution
Do I want this blog to be the story of the fiery, relentless energy of the ten years in which I produced five muse-inspired novels? The aching loss as the decade-long dream of being traditionally...
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