You Dance

Your chin tilts as your body sinks into itself. Your arms fall to your sides as your knees bend and your chest lifts. You face me with your open palms and your taut back and your turned out knees. My voice raises your arms above your head. My touch opens your legs. One knee straightens as the other bends. I am inside you. Your body balances under me and over me. I push you. You turn into me.

An extended breath. I am behind you. Your back bends, and I am holding your waist, tracing your arm’s extension. Your breath catches as I lift you. You will not move away from me. You cannot. Lightly, harshly, sensually: your body pulses against me.

A painting exists by the colors on the canvas. You exist by the lilt of me.

Awesome Things #3-6

How many days since I’ve posted my first two awesome things? I’m not sure, but here it is, 11:30pm, and I’m ready to list more awesome things.

3. Going to bed before morning: The time is 11:30pm, and I plan to be in bed within the hour!

4. Leftovers: I ate (that should be read as “inhaled”) some wonderful–no, awesome–leftovers from yesterday’s trip to Tokyo Japanese Steak House. This means: no cooking, minimal cleaning, yummy food. All these things are especially good when one does not leave the dance studio until 9:52pm.

5. A full barre: I have twice the number of Primary 4 dancers this year. I think I may even need to get my first demonstrator for this class. All these chatty little girls are wonderful–I mean awesome, talented, and take up the full length of the ballet barre!

6. Vladimir: Last year, my white-knuckled Intermediate 3 dancers grasped onto the barre too tightly one day, provoking me into lecture them about pas de deux courtesies and how to treat the ballet barre as a partner.  Since then, we have taken to calling the barre in my studio “Vladimir.”  I think it is quite the fitting name for him.  I enjoy personifying a wooden pole.

In other news, I must confess that I have not yet checked to see what other awesome things are being listed on the 1,000 Awesome Things blog. Perhaps my emo tendencies are once again over-powering me. Perhaps I would be more likely to read the aforementioned blog if it were listed on my blog roll. Perhaps the fact that I started a new dance company, planned my parents’ anniversary dinner, and start teaching at a new school this week have prevented me from indulging in that twice-aforementioned blog.

I also just read fmylife… though I don’t “f” my life 🙂