Life of a Dancing Engineer

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov

The United States’ first National Dance Day, which was started by Nigel Lythgoe of SYTYCD fame as a grass roots movement, took place this past weekend, and was recognized by an official act of Congress! Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a long-time proponent of healthy lifestyles, introduced a National Dance Day resolution at a press conference on […]

I posted some ideas and research not too long ago about how to create a Dance Studio Apartment. I’ve recently been doing a lot more reading and research on that subject (including real-estate hunting and tax-implications), and I am hoping to be able to actually pursue that dream and create my own studio in the near […]

I made a sort of last minute decision to go compete at Manhattan, and gosh am I glad that I did! It’s late at night, and I’m exhausted, so I’ll have to save the verbose story telling for another post, but suffice to say that I feel that I learned a lot from the experience […]

Before my performance last night, Danielle Mayzes created this masterpiece atop my head…… in about 20 minutes! When I finally saw it in the mirror, I was floored! What’s more, I think she worked her wonders on two or three other dancers within about an hour! Stay tuned for more pictures (and hopefully video) yet […]

A dancer friend of mine had an extra ticket available to the 7th Annual Boston Tango Festival‘s “Celebrate Tango” show tonight, and I’m very glad I went! All together, there were five of us, four dancers, and one hopefully soon-to-be-convert! 🙂 The annual festival celebrates Argentine Tango, which, for the uninitiated, is very different from […]

What if I could have my own dance studio apartment? I’ve had this idea before – but last night I had a very vivid dream that kick-started my imagination again. 😀 I started by doing google searches for apartments with sprung floors, with very little luck – the only one I found was an expensive […]

I was reading some dance forums today, and I happened upon a thread about the (un)importance of the arts. I couldn’t disagree more with those posters commenting that math and science and practical learning are more important than cultivation of the arts and creativity, and luckily I’m not the only one (towards the latter half […]

Tapestry 2010 @ The Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA On Saturday, May 22nd, I went to dinner with a friend at a beloved Turkish restaurant in Arlington named Pasha. After dinner, with our bellies full, and the night still feeling rather young, my friend and I decided to be adventurous and walk around little, to see […]

As I was writing the last post about Lyrical, I was also talking to a new friend, who also dances Standard, on Facebook. We were talking about practicing, and I was recounting one of the random ways I practice standard when I have the floor all to myself for an hour before lyrical on Fridays. […]