I can no longer be trusted to blog. Sorry, Mom!

So here’s what happened in the SPRING! (Though it is officially in triple digit degrees in Texas it is still spring… so I’m only kind of late, and wait I don’t have to explain myself to you!)

FurtherDance Fort Worth held classes every Friday night (save 2 weeks off) from January 8 – June 3 and I had the privilege of attending many, dancing with friends new and old, and even teaching a class!

At FWAFA, we presented Napoli in late April. I had so much fun choreographing the Act II Tarantella on Dance Company II.

I completed all of my teaching certification tests, my first year as a “Teacher of Record” and all my coursework and I’m now a certified teacher in Texas!

Texas Dance Conservatory completed its first year and first recital. All the students did great, and I was especially proud of my classes, who really showed off their technique and skills!

I have completed work on my new dance for imPULSE dance project, Flatango. It’s about flamingoes, which is just my life right now. Like, of course I’m going to make a dance about flamingoes because WHY NOT?  Not everything has to be serious or artsy or meaningful all the time. Anyway, this dance will be performed at imPULSE’s summer series at the Addison Theater Center, and it will ALSO be performed at the performance at Big Rig Dance Collective’s Summer Co-Op. Both performances are in July.

Also in July I will be creating, rehearsing, and presenting a new work as a selected local choreographer for the Wanderlust Dance Project. I was thrilled to be chosen, and all the dancers that auditioned were amazing, and I’m so excited about my cast and the potential to make something really awesome.  Now I just have to, you know, create mind-blowing movement or whatever…

In more personal stuff my brother graduated from TCU in May, we took our podcast on hiatus (tweet at us if you can’t get enough…) and he also moved away and got married. So I’m once again the only Texan in my family which is lame but worth it since now I have a sister-in-law!

What’s Next?

FurtherDance is still movin’ and groovin’, with an August master class series and the return of our weekly $10 classes after Labor Day.

I will be teaching at FWAFA full time next year, teaching 2 high school dance classes and all the Middle School dance classes. I will also teach a ballet and contemporary class for Texas Dance Conservatory and will continue to direct Company II.

Perhaps I’ll update you in late summer??? Who knows….