At the barre again

I should probably write something about my ballet class then, seeing as I went and it was great!
I was really scared all day beforehand, but as soon as I walked into the studio I relaxed. Not only did it look incredible, with mirrors all around, bright lights and a barre at the walls, but it [...]

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Gotta love the dance.

Oh wow. After going to Sadlers Wells with C, I idly looked at the website to see if there were any adult dance classes going on there. Not really expecting to find anything, you know.
But hurrah, I am now signed up for Adult Ballet Classes for Total Twats! Okay it’s not really called that. Its [...]

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Dance mania returns

Things have livened up here, as my friend C from Germany is visiting again this week. Well, she arrived on Thursday and we spent the day together before I packed her off on a train to visit M, a guy who she says is “just a friend”. Hmm. Get together you lovely people! (I’m a [...]

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Going out is really fine

Tonight I’m going to see Strictly Dance Fever, and in a way I feel a bit sad knowing it’s the last one I will ever go to see live. Ah well. Last weeks looked AMAZING on telly, if anyone in the UK was watching, nice big circular studio and funky live band. I might be [...]

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Strictly Dance Fever

On Saturday night I went to see the live recording of Strictly Dance Fever! It was presented by Graham Norton, who is now my Gay Idol 2005. He is lovely, and really funny even when the cameras are not rolling, I can confirm. He was doing all sorts of silly walks and dances himself when [...]

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Reflections

In the mirror at the dance class tonight, I kept noticing how serious my face looked. It’s so hard to dance when you’re sad, but hardest of all is hiding the fact that you’re sad from those around you. It seeps through and shows you up, you just can’t force it down. Or, I can’t [...]

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I am now Dance Mad

My Monday night dance class was the best yet, in fact possibly the best creative moment I ever experienced so far. We had a subsitute teacher ( a very softly spoken girl from Germany) as our normal person was off doing exciting stuff for “a project”. Ohh wow, she was from the company and even [...]

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