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Royal Ballet: Draft Works

by David Wilson on January 27, 2012

It’s been a pretty eventful week for the Royal Ballet. First there were the National Dance Awards held on Monday, where the Royal Ballet’s Gary Avis won best classical male performance and Steven McRae won best male dancer. A huge congrats to the pair, and to all the nominees in some very strong fields for [...]

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First week of 2012

by David Wilson January 8, 2012

Well 2012 has certainly started with a bang! I posted earlier this week about my first class back, and my mini-masterclass on pirouettes. Well I didn’t want to let the awesome list of things to work on go to waste, so first thing on Wednesday morning I called into the Uni reception to book the [...]

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Working on my Pirouettes

by David Wilson January 3, 2012

Had my first class of 2012 tonight! I swear you can’t beat that post-ballet feeling: after a really productive day at the University it was the perfect end to the day. We worked our way through pretty much all the RAD Intermediate Barre – my practicing over the break certainly helped as I seemed to [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions: Old and New

by David Wilson January 3, 2012

Around this time last year I wrote a post on my New Year’s Resolutions. Here’s how successful I was in sticking to them: Keep on taking Ballet classes – Yup! Definitely achieved that one! Perform – Hell yeah! Check out my Coppelia post for a recap Maintain body, and improve body image – So-so… I [...]

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The 2011 DaveTriesBallet Awards!

by David Wilson December 30, 2011

I’ve been reflecting recently on 2011. It’s been a hell of a year for me and my ballet experience has come along in leaps and bounds, both in terms of ‘doing it’ and ‘seeing it’. I wanted to do a review of the year (prompted by the awesome CloudDanceFestival’s suggestion) but so much happened I [...]

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Dance Advantage Contest 2011

by David Wilson December 1, 2011

Hey everyone! Some of you  may remember that last year I posted about a contest Dance Advantage ran to choose the Top 20 Dance Blogs of 2010, as chosen by readers. I was honoured to make the Top 20 list and have a place alongside some blogs I truly admire and love. So this year, [...]

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Being an adult dancer

by David Wilson November 30, 2011

A couple of things happened to me recently that have made me realize how, at times, it can be difficult being an adult dancer. I’m not meaning professional dancers here, Ed covered some of those difficulties in his awesome guest post, I’m talking about us ‘recreational’ dancers. The first thing happened when I was talking [...]

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Dream Roles

by David Wilson November 24, 2011

Okay, so I was reading this really cool post on the awesome “Knit Two, Pointe Two” blog in which Nellie describes the top five roles she’d love to dance. It’s a really great post – she makes some really interesting choices. That got me thinking, what would be the top 5 male danseur roles I [...]

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Taking time to look back

by David Wilson November 21, 2011

Today I couldn’t remember which way round bravo, bravi and brava went in terms of saying it for guys, girls or groups (I’m currently doing #NaNoWriMo [National Novel Writing Month] in my spare time and my main character went to see a ballet…). I typed it into google and was searching results when I suddenly [...]

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Ballet DIY: Sewing your shoes

by David Wilson November 17, 2011

I’ve had a couple of emails recently asking the same question: how do you sew the elastics on your ballet shoes? Well here’s my step-by-step guide… As with my Ballet DIY post on making shorts from tights  my disclaimer is that I’m absolutely useless at sewing! This is how I sew my ballet shoes but there’s [...]

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