Queer af and done w/ ur shit

Saying a dancer did a good job with something is not the same as saying they’re the best at something.

(Alternate text: just because someone said a dancer is good at something doesn’t mean they’re saying that person is better than your favourite little dancer so calm the fuck down).

I’m still kind of incredulous at the anon who acted like I committed some sort of mortal sin for saying Kendall’s pirouettes were lovely in the recent group dance.

I mean, they are lovely, and I felt the need to compliment them because I’ve previously found Kendall’s pirouettes atrociously rough around the edges. For having such a strong centre Kendall has a weak supporting foot and bad posture on her pirouettes. So to see her do two lovely, controlled triple pirouettes with nice preparation, arms that look graceful and her head isn’t edging forward like it usually does, well, that should be applauded.

Oh wow, she had a low releve? Do you people know how to critique anything other than releve? It’s not the worst it’s been for Kendall, but also with the height and structure of the heels they were wearing, it’s a lot harder to pull up your heel than it is in a jazz shoe or barefoot.

I think it’s a valuable thing to accept, as people who fancy themselves the authority on dancers and technique (let’s face it, we all think we know shit about shit). There’s so much focus on dancers being BETTER than other dancers and not on dancers doing well for themselves.

And for that reason I hope a good 80% of you never become dance teachers.

Here’s an example. Two of my students in my junior tap class, A and J, are both at different skill levels. A is nine but is in her fourth year of tapping. She struggles with rhythm and memorizing choreography and takes longer to pick things up. J has only been tapping just over a year but at 11 has a more adept mind at picking up choreography and concepts. Pullbacks, wings and other tricks are no issue for her, and pretty much everything I teach her she either understands right away or keeps working until she understands it.

Lately A has been making a lot of strides. She’s gotten her four-count pullbacks and changing pullbacks (her four-count are actually better than her two-count) and counts music a lot better. She is still leagues behind J, but she’s been getting heaps of praise lately because she’s demonstrated an ability to improve, and her confidence is soaring. J, who still receives her fair share of praise, is mature enough to understand that compliments to A don’t take anything away from her and that she is still working very hard and is very good.

if you need binders/breast forms/makeup/etc but don’t want your parents to know, now is the best time to get it. 

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

1. What is your go to flavor of salad dressing?

2. What’s the t-shirt you wear the most?

3. What TV show can you quote the most?

4. Do you put your left shoe on first or your right?

5. What’s your study routine?

6. One sound you can’t stand?

7. Hot showers or cold showers?

8. Breakfast or no breakfast?

9. What age were you given “the talk?”

10. Ice in drinks or no ice?

11. What’s one Halloween candy that you would hate getting as a child?

12. Blue jeans, skinny jeans, leggings, shorts, or no pants at all?

13. What’s one slang term you refuse to use?

14. Could you ever be a vegetarian?

15. Hardback, paperback, or e-books?

16. Would you rather go through the drive thru or go inside?

17. Do you keep your car/room neat or messy?

18. What’s the first app you check when you wake up?

19. If I looked in your wallet, what would I find?

But if you’re a trained, armed police officer, and you fear for your safety, you have license to overreact and shoot anything that moves.

How is it that we expect higher standards of untrained civilians than we do of trained, armed police officers?

…“I would have kids start crying when I told them they didn’t have money in their account because they were terrified of getting the cheese sandwich.”

The district’s policy is to give a student a hot meal and charge the parent’s account the first three times they forget lunch money, communications director Tustin Amole told ABC News today. The fourth time, the student is given a cheese sandwich – a single slice of cheese on a hamburger bun – and a milk.

…Curry felt she could not stand by and keep letting it happen.

“It’s not nutrition. It’s not healthy,” she said. “It’s wrong on so many levels, and I hated to see food go to waste. I hated to see food thrown away that could’ve been given to these children that are hungry.”

Curry was supposed to take the students’ food, throw it away and replace it with the cheese sandwich and milk if a student had exceeded the $7.60 debt limit, she said. Instead, she would cancel the transaction and remind the student to bring their lunch money.

Curry acknowledged that her actions went against the district’s policy and when asked why she did it, Curry said, “Because it was the right thing to do and sometimes doing what is right is not what is easy.”

Japan - No immediate reports of injury/damage in Japan. Tsunami advisory was lifted 90 minutes after being put in place. Also reported there was also no threat of a Tsunami from the quake. 2011 was the year when a Tsunami killed 18,000 people, not this year.  (x) (x)

Mexico - They are fine. No reports of immediate damage/injury. (x)

Paris - Eiffel Tower turns it’s lights of every night to save electricity, the GIF of it going dark dates back to January. If the lights went off for victims of yesterday’s attack then at the time, the attack would’ve still been happening. (x)

Donald Trump - Let me make this clear; I am not defending him here, this is to clear up something. His disgustingly gross tweet about gun control in Paris dates back to the Charlie Hedbo attack. (his real tweet from last night is included but he’s still scum) (x) Although his tweet about boming oil fields, and people not laughing about the idea now was last night which is disgusting to try and make some kind of joke/comment about that.

“Not Afraid” Photos - Those photos date back to January when the Charlie Hebdo attack happened. (x)

Tumblr isn’t a trusted news source for these recent events, and past events aftermaths. Go to the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters for trusted news of current situations in Paris especially.

john cage’s 4’33” is fucking silence

someone put a copyright on the absence of sound

and then disabled the audio of a video

of the absence of sound

Ahh yes

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