Wednesday, April 29, 2015


Polina Semionova is one of my favorite ballet dancers. She is a Russian ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater. Such an inspiration, she is so beautiful.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

    Right now I'm sitting eating my lunch and looking out my big kitchen window at the vineyard. It was quite peaceful until the porta-potty truck came...But I'm sitting here thinking about the Ballet Magnificat! Summer Intensive that is coming up in a few months and about how fast it's coming up! The last few months I've spent just filling out a 12 page application/student form...which took me like a month for some reason! And after finally getting it sent in I kind of forgot about the fact that I'd actually be going! What is wrong with me?? I have all the dance wear I need, all my paperwork sent in, and all the money sent in and yet...it feels like a dream, like after all that I've done it's just a thought, not reality.
    Don't get me wrong, now that I'm thinking about it and writing this I am stoked that I get to go to a state I've never been to before, meet new people, and have amazing ballet training for 4 weeks. But maybe it's the fact that I'm not finished with school and graduated yet that makes it feel unreal. Once I graduate, maybe it'll feel real. Or maybe it won't ever feel real because it's such an exciting thing! Sometimes that happens to me when I travel :P
    All I know is that even though it feels as if June 25 will never come, once it does it'll go by just as quickly. I am just continually praying that all the experiences I have there and all the people I meet...and all the training of course...will stay with me long after the 4 weeks ends.


                                  Time flies over us,
                                         But leaves its shadow behind.
                                                   Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wednesday, January 21, 2015




     This is an amazing video about what ballet means. Tamara Rojo puts in to words exactly what I feel and probably what every other dancer feels. This video actually inspired me to do this blog!