#42 in my daily "dancing from my bedroom" series.
I had an explosive conversation today. More soon.
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2020-05-20 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A super fun burlesque! I am getting so tired of my own clothes, so I borrowed my flatmate's suspenders...
...and yes, when women first began wearing pants, this is what was underneath. ;-)
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2020-05-19 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
#40!!! in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series! Do I get a present? :-)
I think this one is really self-explanatory and, I hope, deeply relatable. Wherever you're at.
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2020-05-18 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
#39 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
I'm having a rough week. Today, I needed to dance about some shit that has been happening--my rebuffed efforts to try to help sex workers facing criminalization for the first time as, her...
2020-05-17 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons!
For your special treat this week, watch me dance along to an online ballet class taught by former Dance Theater of Harlem principal ballerina Enadlyn Taylor.
This is probably the closest you'll ever get to being able to ...
2020-05-16 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, friends!
A whole 4 days, without any new posts! I am grumpy about it, although to apologize after two months of daily posts seems an excessive mea culpa.
But it's happened--the Pandemic Blues have gotten to me badly eno...
2020-05-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you ever had any doubt or lack of understanding of exactly how much I love ballet...
I received some very good advice from a friend/ex-client that what is most fascinating about me/ballet is the smaller gestures, the facial express...
2020-05-10 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
What is going on this week? What is happening? How am I doing? What is the state of the world?
All these burning questions and more, answered!
A bit of a different view this week, from the Yoga Zimmer, with fantastic evening ligh...
2020-05-09 21:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
#36 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
I'm working through a thing. Can you tell?
This series is so raw. Love it. When I push this hard, my Middle Eastern dance comes out in a fascinating way.
If you en...
2020-05-08 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
#35 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
I'm working through a thing. Can you tell?
This series is so raw. Love it.
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2020-05-07 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
#34 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
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2020-05-06 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
#33 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
I'm working through a thing. Can you tell?
This series is so raw. Love it.
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2020-05-05 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
#32 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
A gorgeous adapted barre with an interesting soundtrack.
Again, this project is keeping me sane. Thank god for ballet.
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2020-05-04 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This wicked awesome video is brought to by a wonderful human who recorded herself playing an accordion song so I could dance to it. (Hence apologies for the little technical sound wobbles.)
Oh! I could dance to it all day. ...
2020-05-03 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
#30!!!! (Someone throw this woman a party with booze) in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series.
This one is completely self-explanatory. And I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way, and if you do too, I am so sorry. ...
2020-05-02 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, friends!
My weekly check-in.
It was my first attempt at a simultaneous Instagram livestream, so there were momentary confusions. Apologies. I will have my shit together better next week!
This week, a dee...
2020-04-30 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
#27 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
"The bad news: You're falling.
The good news: There is no ground."
My parents are very upset that I had just gotten to Berlin when "the rug was pulled out from un...
2020-04-29 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a very special burlesque.
A sort of potential post-madness-career-launching burlesque.
You see, I met this friend. (She's a sex worker too, of course.)
Well, long story short, this fabulous Australian New Orleans jazz mus...
2020-04-28 11:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post
#26 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
Some extremely primal shit coming out here. I'm loving how pointe is getting integrated into my improvisation. Usually, it's such a specific idiom that it's hard to be completely f...
2020-04-27 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
#27!!! in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series! Week 5, and still going strong.
The most elegant way possible to exorcise frustration.
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2020-04-26 21:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
#24!!! in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series! Week 5, and still going strong.
I think one of the beautiful things about this time is that things are slower, and simpler.
But you have to let them be simple. 2020-04-25 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
23 April 2020
My bed in Neukölln
I am so, so angry.
The system has failed me, on almost every level.
I am definitely not the only one; but perhaps I am one of the few wit...
2020-04-24 19:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
#23 in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series!
This piece is an homage to the stunning beauty of spring in Berlin, with music by one of my favorite San Franciscans, Katy Stephan, who I once performed with.
If you enjoy t...
2020-04-24 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
#22!!! in my daily "dancing in my bedroom" series! Week 5, and still going strong.
I met someone. It was fun. :-)
If you enjoy
this video, please consider becoming a patron if you're able. I'm making these videos free to all,...
I have been alerted to the fact–rather gracelessly–that my last post makes me sound like a selfish asshole.
I am not writing this so she forgives me for my selfishness, but rather because I agree that there are things I wrote that may mi...
2020-04-23 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ernestine prepares a new pare of pointe shoes!
As I sew, I discuss:
-what I'm doing
-what I love about pointe
-how one trains to dance en pointe
-Does it hurt?
-how you can love yourself ...
2020-04-22 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post1 April 2020
Evening
Home (of course)
I have implemented the scheme.
It took half an hour.
These times provoke a lot of thoughtful (and of course now my phone is blowing up and I’m distracted from my thoughtfulness)...
2020-04-22 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, ok, finally, A WISHLIST!
For those of you wanting to help a little bit more or in a one-time way...
I need certain things to take care of my body as I burn through these weeks of daily dancing, and I can't afford them myself. Want...
2020-04-22 13:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, friends!
Hope you're hanging in there.
My weekly Hello video!
In it, I discuss:
-How shit is going. "Jesus fuck. Why'd you have to ask?"
-How Berlin is doing! Flowers! Regulations!...
2020-04-21 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post10 March 2020
Bed
I am a squirrel falling through the air.
I found this card today and bought it. It’s one of those lovely old-fashioned nature prints that you see everywhere in bookshops here. The image is of a flying squirrel...
2020-04-19 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post