Life of a Dancing Engineer

During the time when I should probably have been blogging the most, I haven’t blogged at all! -_- What’s new… A little over a month ago, I injured my back in my sleep >_<, and had to take 2.5 weeks off from Ballroom to recover – that was miserable! What’s worse is that I took […]

Self Confidence. When I started dancing, I had very little. Looking back, I observe that there was a positive-feedback loop between my dancing and my self confidence. As I became better at dance, I gained more self-confidence, and the more self-confidence I gained, the faster and more easily I was able to make progress in […]

A couple of weeks ago, I read this paper, which talks about Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, as it relates to learning and teaching dance. Since reading that paper, I’ve been thinking a lot about Gardner’s theory, as it relates to my own study of dance. The first thing I realized, was that my primary […]

I was just browsing through some old photos on Facebook, and it just so happened that there was a photo of me competing in tango, in promenade position, where my dress is aligned towards the camera (though my partner is covering most of me!)… followed directly the next photo, which was a concept mock-up of the […]

I wrote this letter to my dance instructor Erik, but after writing it, I realized I probably should have written it to myself, like a diary! So, here goes… My first dance diary post! (Changed ever so slightly, to protect the innocent! 😉 ) Dear Dance Diary, Today my morning Ballet and Jazz classes were […]

I’ve been watching the videos of Erik and I from Seacoast… I think we look pretty good in many of the dances! Erik & Layla Videos – Seacoast 2010 This is what I thought about each of our videos from Seacoast: m2u00235, this was our first dance, Tango, when we had just run onto the […]

A lot has changed in my life over the past few months since I began dancing Standard at the end of September. I’m no longer single, I’ve been dancing less overall due to my relationship, I’m no longer practicing latin, rythm, or smooth (for now), I had two coaching sessions, I learned all 5 standard dances, […]

I stumbled upon this “Ten Tips in Ten Minutes that Result in Ten Times Better Dancing” All ten tips really are  that important. #7-10 I have learned previously, though of course I could benefit from more formal practice with most of them, especially #9. #1-6  I have heard before, and known in some capacity, but […]