I read almost everything Seth Godin puts his name on.  Today, I finished the “The Big Moo,” a follow up to Seth’s remarkable book, “The Purple Cow.”  Here are key excerpts from a chapter entitled, “What Business Can Learn From Dancers.”
…While some dancers are driven to become brilliant interpreters of others’ work, they are not [...]

This month, instead of two ballet classes per week, I’m taking three.  The additional class has already made a difference.
The most obvious effect is that the improvement of technique accelerates dramatically.  With only a day or two between each class, there is simply no time to forget.  This got me thinking about the marginal benefits [...]

I recently began moving documents, photos and scrappy things to Evernote.  The migration takes a while but since the results are so logical and organized, it’s worth it.  In all of my gathering, I have come across too many bits and pieces that have some how been packed up, kept in tact and never thrown [...]

This past week marked the end of my first month, back to ballet classes.  Along the way, I made notes of some lessons and challenges that became clear.  Naturally, I’ve also jotted some of Bob’s reality-check truisms.
January/February:

The closer your arms are to your body, the easier - but uglier - the full turn.  Arms must [...]

With any classical ballet company, the full-length, narrative ballets always provide the predictable framework for a season. We know that in a given year, it’s fair to expect Giselle or La Sylphide, The Nutcracker at Christmas and some version of Swan Lake. In recent years contemporary works have interspersed the classics and have, as Karen [...]