From the category archives:

First Lesson

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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Second First Day of Class!

by David Wilson September 20, 2011

What a difference a year makes. Or then again, maybe not… Pretty much exactly this time last year I was getting ready for my first ever Ballet class at Princeton with Douglas Martin, former principal with the Joffrey Ballet and an amazing teacher. I was rather nervous but also really excited and it went great – class [...]

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Ballet Classes “Up North”

by David Wilson June 24, 2011

So I posted recently that I’ve headed back to the UK, and one of the problems with coming back here is the lack of Ballet classes. I live in rural Northumberland (just south of Scotland) and, to be honest, there isn’t much of anything around here, never mind dance schools! I live on a farm, [...]

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Dave Tries Something New!

by David Wilson April 23, 2011

Today was one of “those” days. It had all been so promising. I survived my Masters defense talk on Thursday (thus finishing my Masters), celebrated with friends that night, spent Friday morning recovering from the hangover then the rest of the day exploring the Delaware Water Gap. So I was looking to continue my celebrations [...]

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Some Thoughts on Ballet Class

by David Wilson March 28, 2011

So this post came about rather unexpectedly, and stemmed from a video I posted on my Tumblr site (where I post random pictures, videos, quotes or thoughts that generally aren’t important enough to warrant a full blog post). I’ll talk about the video in a moment, but it got me thinking about some of the [...]

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Partnering – Finger Turns and Shoulder Sits and Fish Dives, Oh My!

by David Wilson February 26, 2011

So, as promised, here is the second part of my partnering post. If you haven’t read the first half (and if not, where have you been?!) then take a look here. Also, just like last time, I don’t pretend to be an expert on partnering – in fact the complete opposite – so if you [...]

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I Need Some Advice

by David Wilson November 18, 2010

Hello Loyal Readers! Well it’s coming up to three months since I started taking classes and I wanted to do something to mark the occasion (any excuse to do something fun!). So I thought I’d do something a bit different – a video project. For this, I’m going to need your help. In particular, I [...]

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First day of class…

by David Wilson September 15, 2010

Disclaimer 1: This post is pretty long (around 2500 words) so if you don’t want to trawl through it all just scroll down to the last three words. I think they sum up my entire experience perfectly. Disclaimer 2: This is my first class so don’t expect perfect terminology or for me even to spell [...]

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Questions you wish you had asked…

by David Wilson September 14, 2010

So in my last post I asked for responses about what you wished you had asked before your first Ballet class. I got some really useful responses from you all and I decided to post some up in a post here. I’ve highlighted some of the points that seemed the most useful to me pre-lesson. [...]

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Help Needed!

by David Wilson September 6, 2010

Okay, so in exactly a week’s time I’ll be taking my first ever Ballet class and I’m currently very excited and slightly nervous. This is where you guys can help! As with many beginners, I have a lot of questions about what my first class will be like. I originally thought of posting a few [...]