Well, our ballet class has received unexpected news. The East 67th Street Library branch, where we've been meeting and dancing for six years, is closing for renovations for several months beginning March, 2019.
We are temporarily without a home.
We have to find another space to dance, at least for awhile. What a joy it has been to meet and dance and support each other all this time in comfortable surroundings that remind us of the happy community we inhabit.
Now, in addition to putting on my ballet slippers while I dance, I'll have to add a thinking cap to my practice clothes and hope I'll come up with an idea that will keep us together. It will take some thought and action to come up with the perfect place where I can continue teaching and provide our amazingly talented dancers with free classes.
Free ballet for everyone has been my passion. In the past six years, our class has welcomed adults from 27 to 87, from countries and cultures of many kinds with sometimes exotic traditions to share.
We've met together as New York neighbors from every borough and we've become friends and dancers who support each other, collaborate on dance technique and share experiences. We've attended dance performances as a group, sipped lattes after class, helped classmates in myriad ways and , as a result, have enjoyed our unique comaraderie that has developed through dance.
If any of my students are reading this blog -- and I hope you all are -- I urge you to keep up your daily practice just as I've shown you. Warm up and dance whenever you have a little time to yourselves so you can keep ballet as your center.
It's all been wonderful so far. Let's move forward. Let's dance forward.
Jennifer
We are temporarily without a home.
We have to find another space to dance, at least for awhile. What a joy it has been to meet and dance and support each other all this time in comfortable surroundings that remind us of the happy community we inhabit.
Now, in addition to putting on my ballet slippers while I dance, I'll have to add a thinking cap to my practice clothes and hope I'll come up with an idea that will keep us together. It will take some thought and action to come up with the perfect place where I can continue teaching and provide our amazingly talented dancers with free classes.
Free ballet for everyone has been my passion. In the past six years, our class has welcomed adults from 27 to 87, from countries and cultures of many kinds with sometimes exotic traditions to share.
We've met together as New York neighbors from every borough and we've become friends and dancers who support each other, collaborate on dance technique and share experiences. We've attended dance performances as a group, sipped lattes after class, helped classmates in myriad ways and , as a result, have enjoyed our unique comaraderie that has developed through dance.
If any of my students are reading this blog -- and I hope you all are -- I urge you to keep up your daily practice just as I've shown you. Warm up and dance whenever you have a little time to yourselves so you can keep ballet as your center.
It's all been wonderful so far. Let's move forward. Let's dance forward.
Jennifer