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Returning to Ballet (Part 3)

  So when my back and my leg are better, I venture out to Kip’s and Eva’s classes to see if my initial impressions stick. And they do—mostly. I try the Beginner level at Koresh again, and find most of the floor work  too challenging.  It’s nice to watch the experienced dancers, but I want

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Coming Home to Ballet- Part 2

I start on a Thursday evening with Ballet I at Kip Martin’s Dance Symmetry Wellness. Kip greets me warmly.  I tell him that it is my first class in thirty years. “Welcome back,” he responds. Immediately I feel comfortable. Turns out that this old brain has remembered quite a bit of ballet— it was only

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Returning Home to Ballet- Part 1

A vast universe of dance styles and classes—day and night—welcomed me when I lived in Manhattan from 1999-2008. Flamenco in the morning. Check. Argentine tango in the afternoon. Check. Bellydancing one day. Lyrical Jazz the next. So many classes and endless possibilities. I was in dance heaven. When I came to Philly, everything changed. Way

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Returning to Tap

When  I threw myself into an  tap class at Steps on Broadway in NYC, I was  nervous. I hadn’t danced in a while and the classes are challenging. That afternoon I was meeting with an old friend, and figured this was a good time take the plunge.  It had been at least five years since

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Art for Healing- Hell’s Kitchen

I was lucky to experience Alicia Keyes’ Hell’s Kitchen this week on Broadway while visiting my friend Jane in Brooklyn.  Semi-autobiographical, it tells the story of a young girl, Ally, who as a teenager has to deal with a lot of heartache and struggle. “Do something with that anger,” her piano teacher tells her. “Sit.

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