A Year of Dance
Posted in Dance, Habits of Mind, Practice on Aug 10th, 2014
It was about a year ago that I learned of a dance school near me with a class in beginning ballet for adults, and with some trepidation left a voice message […]
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Beginning Ballet, Part 2
Posted in Conducting, Dance, Habits of Mind, Practice on Nov 24th, 2013
My last post about taking beginning ballet class just scratched the surface. Now I’d like to attempt to write more about the background reasons for studying ballet, and the effects […]
Beginning Ballet, Part 1
Posted in Dance, Habits of Mind, Practice on Nov 16th, 2013
The philosophy behind this blog, Shunryu Suzuki’s classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, is something I have embraced in an entirely new way with my beginning to study ballet. Many times in […]