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Name: Laura Thomason
Date registered: February 28, 2009

Latest posts

  1. D and L, Dancers — February 22, 2012
  2. I saw Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin! — February 20, 2012
  3. Dueling Dancing Stars — February 19, 2012
  4. Spring Formal at Macon State College — February 12, 2012
  5. Black Swan: WHAP! — February 2, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Move aside and let the man go through — 12 comments
  2. Breaking news! — 8 comments
  3. When feminists do the mambo — 8 comments
  4. Assorted entertainments, or “Pick My Dress” — 7 comments
  5. Workshop With Eddie! — 6 comments

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Feb
22

D and L, Dancers

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Monday night we learned that one of our dancers is fluent in American Sign Language, a topic in which Daniel and I share a real but largely hypothetical interest.  After comparing notes on some signs (the ones we’ve picked up from watching ABC Family’s Switched at Birth are correct, but utterly random–”Ferris wheel”?) and learning …

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Feb
20

I saw Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin!

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On Saturday, February 18, I went with a friend/colleague to see Twyla Tharp’s new ballet The Princess and the Goblin.  Apparently its full formal title is Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin, which makes my teeth hurt, but I suppose one could argue that if you’re Twyla Tharp, you can call your ballets anything …

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Feb
19

Dueling Dancing Stars

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Big news from DLDancers HQ: Daniel and I found out on Friday that we have been chosen as “pros” for the Alzheimer’s Association “Dancing Stars of Central Georgia” event.  Just like on Dancing with the Stars we will each be paired with a local “star” to prepare a dance routine that will be performed at …

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Feb
12

Spring Formal at Macon State College

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It used to be the case (18th-19th centuries, after the invention of partner dancing as we know it) that “older” and/or married people didn’t dance at parties or balls.  Dancing was for the young people and those who were courting.  I’m glad that’s not true anymore or Daniel and I would not have had as …

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Feb
02

Black Swan: WHAP!

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Last night, thanks to the mysterious appearance of the HBO channels on our cable lineup, I finally watched Black Swan.  I approached the movie with extreme trepidation: because I get creeped out really easily and I don’t like to be startled, several people had told me I shouldn’t see it at all.  But I had …

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Jan
29

Dancing REALLY makes you smarter!

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Joyce has kindly sent me an article by Richard Powers, dance instructor at Stanford University, that explains the article in the New England Journal of Medicine (abstract here) about dancing and its ability to lower dementia risk.  It makes a lot of sense and, I think, indirectly speaks to the special challenges of partner dancing, …

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Jan
27

For the Macon State Dance Club: Dancing makes you smarter!

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A tip of the hat to Sadie for sending this video clip my way.  It fits right in with this past Wednesday’s first meeting of the Macon State College Dance Club, for which I have the honor to serve as faculty advisor.  We had an incredible turnout of around 20 students, all full of good …

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Jan
17

Dancing on the radio

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I was driving home from ballet class this evening and caught just the tail end of this story on WHYY’s Radio Times: Shall we dance? Inside the world of competitive ballroom dancing. When I got in the car the segment was already almost over, so I haven’t heard the whole thing yet.  Somebody listen to …

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Nov
30

PowerPoint or DANCERS?

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John Bohannon, creator of Dance Your Ph.D., presents a modest proposal at TEDxBrussels:

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Nov
29

Introducing the Macon State Dance Club

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After a lot of “We should” and “Why isn’t there” and “How do we,” I am excited to announce that Macon State College is finally starting a dance club! This project fell into my lap a few weeks ago already half done; the students who wanted to start the club came to me with the …

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