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Genius

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This is who third auntie and third niece are going to see tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EquKmt_Bip4&feature=related

By rights he shouldn’t even be well known. One of 11 children of a truck driver, he grew up poor in Cuba, ran away from ballet school because he preferred hip hop, was forced to go back by his father, and the rest is history. First noticed when he went on an exchange to Italy, when he took part in the Prix de Lausanne, didn’t know what on earth was going on and won a gold medal at the age of 17. He  is now the most famous dancer in the world, and today’s Nureyev or Brashnikov.

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Martina Hingis – voted off Strictly Come Dancing

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Who cares, I just wanted to post up her picture really. More proof if ever you needed it that women get more beautiful as they get older. Now we must have that conversation about the peeque brand sometime.

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Ballet

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

It’s not Covent Garden, it’s not even in London, but today I’m going to see third niece dancing in Copelia with the English Youth Ballet. She’s in two of the four acts and plays a friend of Swanilda (the main part) and takes part in the Prayer dance. She is dancing on pointe in both acts. She has been rehearsing every day for the last four weeks.

It’s a full length ballet, and the idea is to give young amateur dancers the chance to perform alongside professionals and get an idea of what it’s like to take part in a ballet production.

  

http://www.englishyouthballet.co.uk/productionscoppelia.html

This has nothing to do with making money, business, finance or complaining, so I shouldn’t really be posting it here. But what the hell, I’m very proud, and it’s a lot more impressive than anything I ever did in my school holidays

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Should boys do ballet ?

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Tonight the local dance school put on its show. There was tap, ballet, street dance and modern. Third niece did a fabulous solo on point (she has come on beautifully), third nephew did his bit of hip hop dancing. But he also did a bit of basic ballet, which left me feeling well more than  a little uncomfortable in the audience. His mum is dead keen on him learning, and his teachers are saying that he has talent, but me, I’m saying nothing at all right now, I’m zipping it completely ….. all I know was that if I’d done it when I was younger and my classmates had cottoned on ….

Which got me thinking, is it so wrong for young boys to learn ballet ? Or should you completely ignore the peer pressure.

And before answering, take a look at this for inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEbaZ09Rur0

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