Volition Fitness (Pilates/Fitness)

The Saturday, noon ballet class at the JCC was exciting this week, crowded and fast paced. However, only one dancer stayed after class for the rehearsal of my latest choreography. Still, we managed to advance the thing. Despite the lack of consistency that hampers the effort, I find it thrilling. There is something marvelous in creative collaboration, that sharing of the imagination -- dreaming together.

Paul and I designed our first fitness workshop called Sit Tall. Now we're experimenting with the standing version, called Head Over Heels. Even after three decades of ballet focus, I still must constantly remind myself to correct my slumped shoulder-forward head posture. The sad thing is that I think that I'm holding myself well until i see myself in a photograph or video...sigh.

A Russian ballet teacher just corrected me, "Pull in belly. Looks like watermelon!"

My fellow choreographers Tom & Romina met with me this Saturday to create our next Performance Project. It's heaven working with these two wonderful teachers...so easy and playful. The dance we'll set for the workshop on Thanksgiving weekend is going to be beautiful and fun! If you're coming, bring sunglasses. We're dancing to Mike Posner's "You Think You're Cooler Than Me".

Teaching yesterday's cancer-exercise class was a powerful culmination of a life's work. I came prepared with a brief and simple dance; but was surprised by one of the participants, who shuffled into the studio barely able to walk...so much for that lesson plan. Hmm...improvise!

This Friday I begin my first class for Sunflower Wellness, training cancer patients at the Harbor Point Club 1:00-2:00. I wonder how much of my old "The Beauty in the Mirror" dance program for the same population, I'll be able to include in this class.

Silly me. I thought that having gone to my father's bedside and done all that I could do, I'd be able to cleanly move forward and resume business as usual. It turns out that my heart and head don't work that way. Today is a dance in my own personal fog.

The Movies-Movies club is a social group for gay guys, so the best part of the Oscars night will be dishing the gowns. In the best of times i get to combine business with pleasure. At today's academy awards watching party I'll have my card ready for that moment when the conversation swings from what that actress SHOULD have worn to "and what do YOU do?"

Being Artistic Director again doesn't pay much; but I'm having a blast! It's giggles at work, and I haven't felt this much excitement joined with a sense of purpose in years.

Okay, update FaceBook profile, check; update LinkedIn profile and accept connections, check; update Yelp profile and request more Likes, check. Damn I'm tired and I haven't yet moved from this chairridiculous.

You know, this Fitness business stuff is more promotion than workout; but one must find a way to have fun with both.

Good news - you can now purchase a discount class card for the Women's and the Men's circuit classes. The 5-class card is $90, a savings of $10 over the drop-in rate for the same amount of classes. Instead of $20 per class, you pay only $18; and you have 10 weeks in which to use the five classes. Tell a friend,