Lewis Wheeler (closed): G.Greer likes Smooth Young Men!
Thursday, Oct 16 2003, 02:45
Thank you for the birthday messages!!!!!!!!!! I had a really fun time! Now all I need to do is adjust to the fact that I'm "not a teenager anymore" as so many people have told me!
Times are changing - on tuesday for the first time in my entire life I could actually move forwards while sitting in second! I don't know why, I haven't been doing anything extra special to make that happen. It's got to be something to with the bounces and contractions and brushes blah blah blah. And I've had some soreness around there recently, not the unsupported style ache I used to have before I knew anything about centres and core stability, but a soreness, which upon reflection, must be the type of thing when after three years your back actually decides that maybe it does want to co-operate!
There's still a little bit of my spine that sticks out funnily, but it looks like it's concentrated around maybe two or three vertebrae and I'm sure I can work on it.
Maybe you remember that very 'contemporary' RIVAS exercise thing I wrote up here a while ago - anyway, I've more than achieved the parallel forwards pelvis tilt thing, I can get right over even without warming up! I discovered this tonight when Tom was saying that he was better than me at it. Ooh the competition. And the tilt in second is definately on the 45degree mark but I'll have to sort out that funny bit before I am truly happy. At least it has given me the encouragement to keep pushing myself in these kind of exercises. It's not so long ago (the start of term in fact) when I could not move forwards to save my life in either of these positions! So thank you Martha. Infact since coming back from half term (soo good) and we've started doing floorwork properly (listen to me with all my Graham terminology - ha ha not) I'm almost enjoying our daily sit, bounce, contract, plie, tendu, rise and finish (technique) class.
Thank Cecchetti for Ballet (no historical reason for that, I just like him). Ballet is really the thing I wake up for in the mornings (except I don't really wake up, I just press snooze until I have 25 minutes (if that) until I have to leave the flat - but don't worry, I still shower!). To be completely honest (as is the inherent nature of my personality lol) I've written a letter to Rambert School of Classical Ballet and Dance applying for next year...hmm. This came about because there is a new girl (very nice and friendly with an overactive imagination but for fantasy not dirty things like some of the other students (me cough cough)) and she told me about the Rambert School and that she was going to be applying around loads of schools at the end of the year and I thought, hey - why not. Plus to be honest, its been so long since I've seen any Contemporary Dance that I was really amazingly excited to watch (except a DVD of Nederlands Dans Theater, but they are really exceptional) that I would seriously prefer to be a Ballet Dancer. I love to dance RELEASE based contemporary but I don't get nearly the same amount of excitement from watching it.
P.S. - for people who know this blog, I've been feeling really stupid for ages about what I wrote about Scottish Ballet - I know that they are a contemporary company now (there's lots of interesting stuff on the internet, including lots of protesting in support of the BALLET dancers in the company - a heated article from Mr Peter Royston (principal of Scottish School of Contemporary Dance - ex choreographer etc for Scottish Ballet) nonetheless, exists somewhere! It was just the fact they had my favourite B word in the title that got me all over excited. Anyway, I think there is a Russian Ballet Company performing Nutcracker in Dundee sometime soon and I will be there!
I don't quite have the energy to go into detail (I had a very fat lazy half term and being back at school is making me very very tired) but we had a workshop with Scottish Ballet today. Sort of. It was actually the producer (and an exdancer) of Siobhan Davies Dance Company, she had spent a lot of time recently teaching White Man Sleeps to Scottish Ballet. We had a fun RELEASE technique class and then we learnt most of one of the male solo's from WMSleeps. Again, much more interesting to dance than watch but I'm going to put a lot of the blame into video recordings of dance/live performance. Absolutely worthless in trying to recreate any of the energy/wonder/spectacle (lol-I used that word as such a derogatory term in a some of my essays at Coventry-for people who are easily confused like me, I'm not using it in a derogatory way here!) of a live performance.
It's eleven o'clock and bedtime for me. I will rebuild my strength (but not at the cost of my new found flexibility lol) Yesterday I was in bed at half nine because I had been swimming and then cooking. And I still couldn't get out of bed in the morning. It's extremely irritating because I used to be a morning person and as soon as I actually get out of bed (and definately when I'm out of the shower) I'm wide awake and a friendly happy person. Something's going wrong somewhere.
Finally a funny story to finish this off - On Sunday I was waxing my legs (I'm not a fan of body hair at all) but I had only finished the calf and a bit beyond the knee of my right leg when I got distracted by cooking a meal for a friend (something I do quite a lot - I'll even spend a couple of hours preparing and cooking a meal just for myself!) and I decided to finish my self inflicted pain schedule for the day.
As these things have a habit of doing, I didn't feel like carrying on with the game on Monday or Tuesday for that matter. I really was going to do it on Wednesday - baring in mind (excuse the bad bad pun) that I had been walking around in a very uneven state for a few days by then. When Tom haphazardly invited me swimming - yey I said (thinking of Tom in little swimming trunks!! lol) but then the state of my legs dawned on me. Being the resourceful person that I am I find a blunt razor and a bar of shaving soap (a disposal Gillette BlueII plus and Gillette Venus for women (my flatmate's, not mine) shaving gel) I set to work.
However, the slight problem of limited time struck me as well, so now I have smooth but for very different reasons, lower legs and an odd change in texture just a bit above where the line where my swimming trunks come to - and I don't have small swimming trunks!!!
I hope you are laughing as much as I am feeling dumb!!!
Good night xxx
P.S. Title comes from a quote I read about Germaine Greer which says she finds the male body most erotic when it is young, muscular and free of hair! And she objects to women being seen as sex objects!!! (I forgive her, because we have very similar tastes!) x
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