All posts tagged “Alex Davison”

August 28, 2014
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Claire Davison

Potentially more fun than being famous is being close friends with someone who is famous. This garners all of the status increase without any loss of privacy. To that end, I present Claire Davison. Claire is my sister and is currently dancing with American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. She is also killing it in Ballerina Project photo shoots around the city. If you have not visited the Ballerina Project, I highly recommend that you check it out. In phase two of the project, they aim to use the data collected from photographing hundreds of ballerinas to create one super ballerina with genetic enhancements.

Till then, we have a plethora of delightful pictures to enjoy, such as the one below. Please admire it and don’t forget that I’m her brother (Alex Davison). Enjoy!

 

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August 21, 2014
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Practice Dance Safety

Dance safety often involves attention to myriad minute and difficult details. This is not one of those. In dance, like in geometric proofs, there is given information that we must accept as true in order to be successful. Please treat this dance safety advice as a given:

You need to avoid falling off of the stage

August 21, 2014
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Practice Dance Safety

Dance Safety is a crucial area of study for all dancers. While it is helpful to study what techniques we want to include in our dancing, sometimes it is equally useful to determine the things we want to avoid. For instance, when landing from a jump, we want to use safe dancing technique by landing softly through our feet with our knees over our toes. We want to avoid landing on a body part that is unable to cushion our landing.

With that in mind, here is a video detailing one thing to avoid while dancing:

#1. Don’t land on your face

August 21, 2014
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Five Movies Every Aspiring Dancer Should Watch

Young-and not so young-dancers often wonder what and who they can watch to learn from. Sports players can watch videos of games both excellent and poor, and learn lessons from both. Since dance is an art, however, the differences in videos are often artistic rather than technical. Differences in interpretation cannot be ranked, and every individual will have a different opinion of every dance and dancer. This means that there really is no overarching list of videos every dancer should watch. Except for the one I have compiled on this site.

Here is the first installment in the list of videos every aspiring dancer should watch:

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Peaceful Warrior

The Matrix

Airplane!

Equilibrium

Please comment and let myself and others know what you learned from each video.

August 12, 2014
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Probable Quote of the Day

Inspirational quotes from Mr B, as at least six people insist on calling him, abound. However, we are often left in the dark as to what a smooth operator Balanchine was outside of the studio. I want to change that, starting with todays probable quote:

Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?

-George Balanchine, to Maria Tallchief

Another shot of Heffner at the Mansion.

Balanchine with potential NYCB Miss Novembers

August 7, 2014
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Probable Quote of the Day

While extremely dramatic on stage, Baryshnikov was also emotionally driven offstage, and several quotes show that he was not afraid to express his powerful feelings. For instance, he probably said this:

I really, really hate you.

-Mikhail Baryshnikov, to dance belt

Fuckin dancebelts man

Fuckin’ dancebelts man