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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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Guest Post – Studio to Stage: The Life of a Dancer by Edward Urwin

by David Wilson November 7, 2011

Hi everyone! This is an awesome guest post by my one of my old teachers from Princeton Ballet School, Ed Urwin. It’s a real honour to have someone that inspires me so much writing here. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did and please feel free to ask Ed any [...]

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What’s your inspiration?

by David Wilson October 27, 2011

It seems that recently I’ve been talking quite a bit about inspiration. First off I’ve had a couple of emails. The first was from a guy in his early twenties who decided to take ballet classes after reading my blog (and the awesome BalletForMen) and, according to him, it’s “changed his life”. Well, ballet certainly [...]

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Rediscovering Pirouettes

by David Wilson October 18, 2011

As I’ve mentioned before I recently started at a new dance school and have been getting back up to speed after a summer with hardly any classes… A ‘humbling’ experience, when your classmates are 10 years younger than you and include a former West End Billy Elliot! We’ve been working on the old RAD syllabus [...]

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