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Getting Older Sucks & Other Updates

I'm sure my fellow adult dancers can commiserate.

What's the most frustrating, as someone who grew up dancing, is that I can't do things I used to be able to do. I was always a jumper growing up (especially grand allegro) and now I feel like I can't even get off the floor.

Petit allegro is miserable for similar reasons, but also because I cannot get my brain and body to sync. I know the exercise beforehand and can mark it just fine, but once I actually start jumping my body just won't GO.

I'm not sure how much of this is still weakness from not being able to dance for awhile and how much is...well...age. Ugh.


Weirdly, though, I can do triple pirouettes now and never got those as a teen, so maybe its all in my head.

Anyhoodle--updates!

Ankle is definitely better--I finally finished PT last month! My flexibility still doesn't quite match on that side, so plies can be a little weird (especially in jumps...hmm). Its happiest when I'm using it--it seems to seize up a little when I'm not active. Now if only I could actually take class.

It's like the adult ballet/dance community here in my town suddenly disappeared. I have shown up to so many classes the last few months only to be the sole student (which equals no class), or classes have been cancelled. Not ideal when I want to keep my ankle (and myself) happy.

In completely random news, I keep wimping out about my far-fetched Road to Rockettes goal. Part of me is like, "You promised yourself you'd go do this, just do it," while the other part is saying, "You're 37, there is NO WAY, why can't you just dance for fun?"

As I mentioned above, though, not only has recovery taken FOREVER (so I just barely started tapping again), but I'm having trouble finding classes. Also, I in no way look like a Rockette, so there would be some MAJOR work to do.


Ah, well. I can live vicariously through Instagram feeds instead, right? ;)


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