Dance ’til You Drop
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Hey everyone,
So I have concluded my one-day run of A Year With Frog and Toad at the Maine State Music Theater. As is such I have been coming to grips with that my theatrical side will have to be sedated until I reach Ithaca again. This is not 100% true, I’ll be performing with Anthony’s Italian Kitchen Dinner Theatre on saturday nights for July and August…but I won’t be a part of a show for a while now. During my time with MSMT and while I searched for a job, one of the things that fell by the wayside for me was dancing. The last dance class I took until recently was my Ballet final at school. I’m making a conscious decision to change that now. I’ll be taking four or five classes a week between three different schools of dance in Portland. I’ll be taking a ballet class through Portland Ballet Company; tap, jazz, and ballet at Casco Bay Movers; and a ballet/jazz fusion class through Vivid Motion. This hopefully will sedate my theatrical side for the next couple months, as well as get me back on track to being in shape. I’m banking that the quote “There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” Will reign true long enough to keep me sane ’til school kicks back up.
I’m working at the Dogfish Company this summer as a dish washer, and for Ted Arcand (owner of the Dogfish Company) doing various oddjobs needing done. Between work and dance, I’m hopefully going to be working on trying my hand at playwriting…we’ll see how that goes though; I’m notorious for setting myself to things that don’t actually get done. Beyond that there isn’t much more going on, so I’m going to use a few lines to again plug “The Light in the Piazza” at the Maine State Music Theater. It received a wonderful review in the Forecaster recently (which can be found here) and you can read my account of the show here. Please go see it, it deserves to be seen, and you won’t be sorry you did. If you have any love for compelling stories, beautiful scores, beautiful theatrical sets, phenomenal acting, romance, or theatre of any kind then you will enjoy The Light in the Piazza.
~Ned Donovan
