Tuesday, I am flying home to Ecuador 🇪🇨I have not seen my family in over a year and a quarter! I’m staying until two days after my Dad’s birthday.
What a great show!A full house! Word has gone around about this as an alternative option for a night out! Nothing went wrong 😑 It was peerless!
Dress rehearsal tonightWe are going to have a dress rehearsal tonight for the whole show, and tomorrow night we will have an additional dress rehearsal for duets. I think it an odd way to have it but the choreography is quite intricate in two of the duets we will be... See More »
I have classes to teach today, tomorrow and WednesdayWe have a performance on Friday evening, we have agreed on the program; then next week I am flying home to Quito to see my family, and I hope to be back in early January after my Dad’s birthday. Classes have begun today, an early morning ballet... See More »
Exposed: How a gang paid Spanish women to marry foreign expats in bid to gain them residencySpaniards, North Africans and Moroccans were detained in Pozo Alcon (Jaen), Jaen, Cordoba and Malaga including the organisation’s 43-year-old leader who had an extensive criminal record. already been arrested in 2016 for similar acts.... See More »
It’s suddenly gone very quiet on here!I’m having a busy day today and I have not been able to write anything on here, but maybe later.
Seniors class this morning was a surprise!Seven men and five women, we were joined by five other women who had arrived late. Ordinarily if you are more than fifteen minutes late you may not join the class, but my late arrivees had warned yesterday that they would arrive late due to transport... See More »
A week today until our next performanceWe have been debating this performance content. We are not going to be able to stage a complete ballet from our repertoire, but we are looking how to adapt one to the number of dancers we have now. Going forward we might be able to use students from... See More »
Do you take a puzzlebook on a long bus journey?I like to, saving my phone battery for needs, I carry a book of puzzles, and a pen. I can enjoy the scenery and exercise my brain at the same time!
Just in case you were wondering.....The Internet is widely available in Ecuador, with several service providers offering a variety of plans and prices. The main providers include TV Cable, CNT, PuntoNet, Claro, and Movistar. Fixed broadband has 825,732 subscribers, while mobile... See More »
Does being a lone child prove confusing as you grow up?I am one of four, and I have no confusions over who I am. I'm not a boy locked up in a girl's body, nor am I a condor waiting to fly, I am pleased to be a young woman exploring the world, I don't consult the tarot or astrologers for what the future... See More »
Shall I compare thee to a dove...? Ever been told you are someone else here?I was just accosted with this premise, I know the place is called "Similar Worlds" but this was a new one!
How much work has to be done in Ecuador for the sake of 'true freedom'?Ecuador's political parties have historically been small, loose organizations that depended more on populist, often charismatic, leaders to retain support than on programs or ideology. Frequent internal splits have produced extreme factionalism.... See More »
The group I work, create and dance with and for is rather much a collective, in the old 'Soviet-style'There isn't a president of the Presidium, because there isn't a Presidium, none of that kind of baggage is included. We each have a vote about matters, and where there's impasse there is a debate and discussion. We gradually iron out our perceived... See More »
We will never have a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', do you agree?Too many people want their own 'elite' of some kind, a workers' republic is impossible!
Having a day off mid-week is a lovely thing, do you agree?I got up later than usual, snuggling under my duvet, and I had a shower, attended to some 'follicular activity', and I'm not wearing dancewear today! Admittedly I have to go to the laundry this afternoon and put my soiled clothes through the wash,... See More »
The centuries wherein we had the great composers were far more interesting for popular music than the seventy years since WW2, do you agree?
Do you wish someone would come along and revolutionise popular music, so we can escape the overused four four with a snare counting time?
Is it acceptable for politicians to try and control what is said about them, for their previous lives?We have so many examples, in India/Pakistan, Modi and Khan; in Russia, Putin; in Australia, the prime minister; in England, Starmer and Reeves..... They get indignant when they are found out, but are vociferous about others when they are holding... See More »
We are having a rehearsal class this evening for our performance next weekI’m not sure how long it will be as we are looking at which ballets we have in our repertoire that we can take excerpts from to present to an audience. We have to develop a following and build our performance budget so that we can stage one or more o... See More »
Religion in EcuadorI have been talking about this to a couple of people: When it comes to religion, the Ecuadorian society is relatively homogeneous, with Christianity being the primary religion. Catholicism is the main Christian denomination in the country. There are... See More »
Our work ethic is broad.We have the dance school which is developing. We also have involvement in theatre technology, sound, physiotherapy, photographic modelling, stagecraft, costuming, and we are exploring the concept of dance clothing supplies.