From the category archives:

Ballet

More than just the steps…

by David Wilson February 18, 2012

This time next week I’ll be warming up for my performance. “Eek!” doesn’t quite cover it… I’m simultaneously really excited about it and also really nervous. The steps aren’t crazily complicated (but not exactly easy either) consisting mainly of grand jétes en tournant/tour jetés (depending if you’re UK/US taught) and the partnering mainly involves promenade [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

BalletBoyz: The Talent

by David Wilson January 29, 2012

You’ve probably heard of the BalletBoyz. Two former leading dancers with The Royal Ballet, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt have spent the last ten years, in short, making ballet and dance be cool. To start, that was by their own performances, at the same time they started making documentaries which soon were broadcast on national [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Royal Ballet: Draft Works

by David Wilson 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 [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

7 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

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 [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

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, [...]

30 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries