Friday, November 18, 2011

[Outfit Post] This Week in Outfits

Oh hey, a less gigantic backlog of outfit snaps this time!! And I was actually un-lazy enough to take a decent amount of outfit snaps this week.



Skirt: Bodyline
Cutsew/Cardigan/Tights: Target



JSK: Metamorphose Temps de Fille
Cutsew/Cardigan: Target
Tights: Sockdreams



Skirt: Baby the Stars Shine Bright
Hairclip: Innocent World
Cutsew/Cardigan: Target
Tights: Sockdreams



T-Shirt: Kokufuku Shop
Skirt: Lolita Princess
Hairclip: Chocomint
Hoodie: Target
Tights: Sockdreams

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Getting Back Into Ballet...


In the almost 10 years since I stopped the intense ballet training I had as a child, I've been drifting lacksadaisically in and out of ballet classes.  For awhile, I found a nice friendly  studio in Boston, and even got back into pointe classes, but the 40-hour roundtrip to and from the studio was just too much for my lazy busy undergrad self to handle.  I tried attending classes at the Joffrey for a short time after moving to Chicago, but again, the travel time was more than I really wanted to spend, especially because I was living in a less savoury area at the time.

However, after watching the first season of Dance Moms followed by random related videos including ones of the cutest little Russian ballerina dancing the Swan Lake variations (all of them... yes... 8 years old and dancing Swan Lake... I can't even...), I've determined that I do want to get back into ballet, and back en pointe eventually.

Even better, I found a little pilates/fitness/dance studio that's all of a 5-minute walk from my current apartment!  One Hundred is the name of the place.  Their website and advertisement board claims they offer adult pointe classes, although I have yet to find them on the schedule.  I think once I feel like I've gotten back in the groove and regained a reasonable amount of strength and balance, I'll just ask directly about them.  The classes here are relaxed, and though labeled "beginner" they actually have a wide range of adult dancers, ranging from beginners to professionals (some of the other studio instructors do the classes too).  They only have ballet class in the middle of the day on weekdays, but it just so happens that this quarter, they fall on my non-campus days, so I think I'm going to try to go twice a week for the rest of the quarter. In any case... COME ON MUSCLES!! REMEMBER WHAT YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO DO!!

Maybe I can keep myself motivated with the goal of cosplaying Princess Tutu and entering a dance number in the ACEN 2013 masquerade ^_^  Ballerina-Kyttyee Go!