Anne Polajenko: "More quotes to tickle your funny bone"

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

                                                                                               George Bernard Shaw

“I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!”

                                                                          Ginger Rogers  

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

                                                                                                George Bernard Shaw  

“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”

                                                                        Vicki Baum  

“Dance first.  Think later.  It's the natural order.”

                                                        Samuel Beckett  

"Beginning dancers prefer to take "intermediate" level classes. Intermediate dancers prefer to take "advanced" level classes. Advanced dancers take private lessons to work on their basics. Go figure"

                                              Author Unknown

    --- Anne Polajenko

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    We hope you had a great weekend, and may this week be a great one as well :)

     Love from your humble blogger,

An Evening with Anne Polajenko: "To pad or not to pad (your feet)"

Pointe shoe discussion:
To pad or not to pad (your feet)

There was a time when dancers did not pad their toes inside the Pointe shoes. At most they used lambswool or got creative with tissues or toilet paper. Actually, this was not a bad idea since paper is disposable, was changed every time and hence could not provide a home to millions of little creatures which just love to multiply in moisture and heat!

Fifty years ago, the theory was that feet had to toughen. If you were prone to blisters, taping the toes was considered an ample solution. Anything that prevented you from feeling what your feet were doing inside the shoe was simply out of the question.

Those days are long gone, of course, and makeshift toe protection has been replaced with pads of all shapes and especially sizes. There are cotton pads, lambswool pads, silicone and gel pads. Some are so thin they are useless, others are so thick as to change the fit of the shoe.

When selecting a padding dancers should remember a couple of things: they still need to be able to feel the floor and should not have to get shoes too big for their feet just because they want to fit toe pads inside. That is a serious problem and dancers need to listen to their retailer's recommendation carefully.

The choice of padding is a personal preference. Some dancers love the squishy feel of the gel pads, others hate it. Others yet will wear only cotton. In either case, So' Dança has developed reasonably sized pads for everyone. from the Nylon/Cotton toe protectors to the silicone pads that cover the bunion as well and can be cut down to size.

So whatever your choice, unless you use a disposable paper product, just remember to wash your foot pads frequently!  


                                                                  ----- Anne Polajenko
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Question of the week results!


    Thank you for your responses, and I appreciated the kind words about my work of art, maybe I'll draw some more this week. Here are the top three musicals according to you guys:
                    1. Chicago
                    2. Hairspray
                    3. Singing in the Rain


     I know, I know, I had a tough time as well accepting that a classic would come in third place, but votes are votes and opinions are opinions.
     Thanks for all the participation, and make sure to read the blog on thursday for the next question of the week.


                      Love from your humble blogger,

YAGP!! NYC Finals!!!

           

 

So Danca was proud to sponsor the Youth American Grand Prix tournament in Brazil this year, and is extremely proud of all the 200+ Brazilian contestants that will be present in New York City in the next few days. So Danca has been actively sponsoring talented youths around the world in order to provide talented dancers from all around the globe an opportunity to be successful in their passions and receive the attention they deserve.

So Danca is proud to announce that it will be a major sponsor within YAGP: USA next year, again demonstrating our passion and devotion to the growth within the dance community.

            I’ll personally be present. The story will be covered next week on this blog so stay tuned for that article.

            We wish to give a warm salute to all of those that made it this far into the competition, and hope that everyone does well at the event.  

            The competition will be held from Thursday March 17^th, till Tuesday March 22^nd, for more information on the competition please go to:

       http://www.yagp.org/eng/yagp_2011_help_menu.php

                        For video on finalists from Brazil go to:

     http://www.passodearte.com.br/eventos/selecionados.asp?evento=youth

  Love from your humble blogger,