So last Fall things got insane for many people, including myself! My job had many cut backs over the end of the year, and finally in January I was laid off! Thankfully, I found work about a week later, in a much better company, and a much better field related to a few past jobs I've had. It's been a blast so far, and has given me much more time to pursue dance and generally keep my sanity.

Sadly, OmBellyCo has too much going on right now to have junior troupe members, but I'm enjoying dance classes with Naraya of Vandalna, and will be doing their spring recital in May. I'll post information on that shortly!

I'll be going to Spring Caravan in about a week, and I'm VERY excited about that. April just snuck up on me! Some great workshops coming up in the Boston area as well. Hooray for spring!!

Thanks to everyone who shared congrats and good wishes on the OmBellyCo trial. I've been practicing with the whole troupe twice a week, and with Anneke, who is more like me than we expected, at least once a week when possible one on one. The immersion of playing keep up and watching the ladies dance along with the excellent feedback from Anneke when we are one on one is helping me in leaps and bounds. I can feel myself improving as a dancer, and I also get to work on taking correction and direction again objectively , something I feel like I may have lost my skill for over time.

I may be performing with them as soon as the end of September, and if not then, definitely at the beginning of October. They realized that most of the other members didn't start performing until 3-6 months out from joining, and they had improv experience to start with! I'll be dancing a year seriously this coming November, and though I have some advantages having danced through my childhood. I am thankful
that now as I play catch up to a group that has danced with each other for a while now.

Onward and upward!!

Last night I had a very laid back and friendly audition with OmBellyCo, a lovely group of ladies who do Improv Tribal Style in the Boston area. (www.OmBellyCo.com) I've been accepted in to the tribe on a trial basis, to see if it works out for the group, and I. I'm SUPER thrilled by this development and I'm really looking forward to rehearsals with them, and learning all I can from my fellow dancers.

To participate in the group and help facilitate networking and awareness that the troupe exists, I've started a tribe for OmBellyCo. We'll be posting workshops, (one coming up next Saturday the 26th!) and performances. So if you'd like to be aware of when I will (SQUEE!) be performing with the ladies, join up, 1 is truly the loneliest number, and I'm all alone over there!

www.tribes.tribe.net/ombellyco