Dance Diary Entry #1

I have found my favorite class in NYC

And it is Jeff Shades Int. Theatre Dance Tues/Thurs 7:45 class at Steps.

Lately I have been feeling Wah Wah as a dancer.... not bad... just wah wah.
It's like when you watch So You Think You Can Dance and get depressed cause you're just not as good as those bitches on the show.... or Dance Moms

I'm not a contemporary dancer.... this I know. I was never trained to be a contemporary dancer. Every now and then I took a modern class which was fun and all but my training has always been Ballet and Theatre Dance... I mean, look at  my parents.

I am very proud of who I am as a dancer but last week I took my first contemporary class and realized I still have so many other styles to learn. And being the crazy person that I am I tell myself if I'm not amazing at these other styles in a week I'm a failure....

Yes, I am aware how annoying and crazy I am.

My friend always talked to me how amazing Jeff Shade's class is. So I was excited when I signed up for it. Going to a new class at Steps can be every intimidating though... Most of the dancers in these classes (esp. Theatre Dance) take this class regularly, are really fierce, probably dance on Broadway, and kinda assume that short blonde shy girl is probably a high school kid visiting on break.

But anyway I get over my awkwardness and get to class.

I was thoroughly enjoying class from the second it started. Jeff is such a positive person but still demands excellence. And everyone taking it was having a blast! It was a great energy that can't help but be contagious.

There was a moment when I was watching the boy's group do the combo we had learned when it hit me "I love being a Musical Theatre dancer!" I guess I had kind of forgotten. The combo was so classic and clean and fun. *Hit one* *turn two three* Jack cole runs, X poses... it was exciting to watch and see the other dancers so into the character and the moment of the dance.

And then dancing it was just even better. It was a great reminder to me about why I am doing what I am doing.

So ya know, Yeah i'll keep working on contemporary (especially cause i wanna dance in Wicked), and yeah I'll keep drooling over Mia Micheals Choreo and Maddie on Dance Moms, but then I'll remember how I feel when I am dancing in a show.... and I'll smile.

Only in New York

Ok So i was waiting for some crazy thing to happen to write about....

so far, my life in NYC has been pretty uneventful.....auditions, job interviews, hanging with people, not much to really blog about...

UNTIL TODAY!

Crazy thing happened today.
So i had just finished a job interview for a babysitting job in Chelsea and I hop on the C to port authority so I could head back to my apt. Because of construction the 7 train (the one i usually take) is closed on the weekends so I take the N then transfer at Queensborough plaza (trust me this is all important).
Soo I'm standing waiting for the N and I notice this woman taking pics of the subway on her cell phone.... I kinda watch for a minute then turn away cause like whatever right? THEN, this woman starts talking to me.... of course we are in the subway station and other trains are coming by and i can't really hear what she is saying. She says something about not to judge her cause she has to post these photos to Facebook cause the losers will comment on them and only losers have time for facebook etc etc.... I actually had no idea what was going on... so I was like "oooh yeah totally haha" then i try to go about my business....
this woman then continues to tell me her whole life drama.... she goes "you know how you have those ppl who's goal is to just make you unhappy and can't just be happy for you and they have to sabotage your life.... " she goes on and on and I can't really hear her cause trains keep going by.... and i'm thinking "come on where the hell is the N!!!!!!!"  so I just say "yeah totally for some people that's their goal.... i get you.... so sorry."

that's when she decides we are best friends........ she continues on and on about her life.... giving me her life story..... she's a single mom.... two kids (one at NYU one at Columbia) she's visiting them now. She comes from a "total white trash family" (her words not mine) and apparently one of them started this rumor that she selpt with the admissions officer to get her daughter into NYU.....

I do not need to know all this.....

of course she gets on the N as well..... grrrreattt. and she sits next to me....... she continues on.... she starts telling me she wanted to talk to me about it cause I looked so pretty and she loved my coat and my shoes.... now, it's my new Betsey Johnson coat.... so yeah that's super cute.... but my 3 year old Van sneakers that I wore for babysitting?!?!?! I'm thinking "thank god I have to transfer soon...then i can leave this uncomfortable situation....."

............ she has to transfer to the 7 as well....... perrrrrrrrfect -____-

that's when she starts talking about how people who lived in sunnyside 20 years ago are all gang members and murderers and how lucky I am to live her now...... I did not mention how my parents lived in sunnyside 20 years ago.....

She had to get off one stop before me I'm sorry to say........ darn it........



AMAZING!!!!!

xoxo Aisling