Grace, Fire & Grungities: Shanmonster Reviews the On the Move Conference
I’ve referred several times to my favorite dancer I’ve never met, Shan, in this blog. Aside from being a funny, intelligent, and delightfully snarky writer, she’s also an excellent dancer, and like me, stubbornly hanging onto her love of dance past the time that most dance hobbyists retreat to the joys of scrapbooking.
She wrote a very encouraging review of the On the Move festival in Toronto, which include this cofee-spitting reference:
“After the warm up exercises, the instructor (Alex Cilic) said, “I feel a grungity.”
“Grungity?” I thought, bewildered.
And then she leaped in the air, and all was revealed. Ah. A grande jettée. And then I knew I was in trouble. My four or five hours of ballet training had not prepared me for this. So I sat the jazz class out and watched some truly marvelous dancing done by the next generation of Canadian performers. This country is in for some great dance. I wish you could have seen these young men and women. They move with such grace and fire. “
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