My Dance Story

Joffrey Ballet Summer Intensive 

Jamaica

Yosemite

My feet before pointe class

Golden Gate Bride

Variations Class me Left Lindsay Right

Joffrey Summer Intensive

After my first Solo, Paquita variation, with my teacher Gina whom I had for 10 years.

Berlin Trip 2011 

Dance studio in Sweden

Spring Medow Dance

Performance clips from our Paquita Show and another dance 

Törnrosa Musikal 2011 Sweden

Before nutcracker like 2008 or something!

MY BALLET STORY!!!!! 

I was put into a ballet class when I was about three, and have been dancing since.  It has been sixteen amazing years.  I thought I would just reflect my ballet story and such since it is a big one.

I started getting serious about ballet when I started dancing at Sonoma Ballet Conservatory when I was about six or seven.  My two teachers were Gina Ness and Tamara Statkoun.

I had these Gina for ten years and Tamara for nine of those.  They have impacted my dancing so much.  And Gina was a big roll model and mentor to me, being a former SFB principal dancer.  Tamara, my strict russian teacher (everyone needs one of those)  is one of those teachers that you either love or hate! And I loved her, she was harsh but she cared so much about dance and just wanted everyone to be their best!  I remember my first class with her and I couldn't understand what she was staying cuz she has her own way of talking, and her accent was so strong.  But after a while I began to understand and now her talking is like a second language that I can speak perfectly.  

POINTE SHOES!!!!! 

I got on pointe when I was around 10 or so.  I was so happy when I got on pointe! I remember my teacher calling me and saying that she wanted me to buy pointe shoes and that I had been promoted to pointe!  It is such a milestone in a dancers life!  I was ecstatic.  That summer of being new to pointe I would put my shoes on at home and dance to Alicia Keys CD that my mom always played. 

When I was at Sonoma Ballet Conservatory I did mixed show called Invitation To the Dance, and I was in the sleeping beauty waltz.  We all got to be a part of The Oakland Ballets Nutcracker, the Gingersnaps! It was such a great experience!We also did Coppelia two years in a row, each year I got a better part. The first year was a little trouble maker dancer.  And the second year was the same part and Mazerka. 

Then the studio was taken over by a new owner because the old owner Beth Marie was retiring. 

So Patty took over and I wasn't used to her style of teaching.  She taught strict RAD and we had a dress code and we were supposed to take exams.  So I decided it wasn't for me and I started at a new studio where Tamara had started teaching at in Santa Rosa.  Santa Rosa Dance Theater.  I danced at that studio probably for five years or so ever since it opened.  Gina and Tamara both started teaching at that studio so I went there because I had followed them. 

At Santa Rosa Dance Theater I grew so much as a dancer, I got stronger on pointe! I had an amazing pointe class with Merylin Murray.  And I met some of the most amazing beautiful dancers in my life! I was a part of their Nutcrackers.  I got to wear a tutu for the first time when I was in snow!  My nutcracker parts over the years got better as well, I was always snow and flowers but I got to dance better parts in the dances over the years, then one year I also got to be Merlitons, and I was in the pas at the end as one of the backup dancers.  

At SRDT I took modern and jazz and some other classes and broadened my dance background. 

I was in springs shows, there were random dances and recitals.  And then.... we did Coppelia!  And in that Coppelia I was a friend.  I was so happy because the friends have really good parts!

  I had been dying to be dance Prayer in Coppelia but unfortunatly I never got that roll,  although I was the understudy for the girl that did get prayer.  Prayer is pretty much the only dance roll I have ever wanted since I was ten and did my first Coppelia performance.  I was a little bitter because the girl who got the part was much younger that me but what can you do about it? 

The ballet Coppelia is such a great ballet with a fun story!  I have been lucky to do it now so many times that I know like all the parts and all the choreography.  =) I was always the one people would ask if they didn't remember when they would come in or what their choreography was! hahaha WIN! 

My very last performance with Santa Rosa Dance Theater was their fall Gala show where there were a random bunch of dances and that show was the show where I danced my first real solo!  It was a solo from Paquita, with a really hard ending where I do releves on one foot all across the stage and end with a pirouette! 

After this show there was a little argument between the owner of the school and my mom and some misunderstandings and hardships... my mom and dad decided I would not go back to Santa Rosa dance theater.  There was a lot of drama and politics involved that I am not going into, but I wasn't physically well and it was a hard time for me.  This was when I was 17 and about to start senior year.  So my senior year I went back and started dancing with Patty as my teacher, at Sonoma Ballet. 

It was more convenient because Sonoma Ballet Conservatory is literally just a block away from my house as apposed to the 40 minute drive I had commuted to Santa Rosa for many years.  I danced at Sonoma Ballet and started preparing for the RAD exam in Intermediate.  I took the exam and passed which was really nice!  I also took a little bit of tap, I have taken tap throughout the years at summer camps and then when I was in Cats I danced tap then.  I really like it.

Then I went to Sweden, and started dancing there.  The first semester I took ballet easy and continuation which was too easy... and I got really out of shape.  I also took hip hop and jazz.  It was nice to take different styles.  The second semester I just took two advanced jazz classes a week.  But I am so out of shape now not dancing ballet the whole semester... maybe just like one class I took, though I did get to dance ballet in the musical I was in (Sleeping Beauty) the second to last pic up there!!!  

And that is my ballet history story, to the present day.  I am going to start taking ballet again! It has been torture not dancing and taking pointe classes and normal ballet classes! 

LOVE SIGRID

DANCING singing and dreaming! =) FOREVER <3 <3 <3

I will never stop dancing, I love it too much! 

At Peace

Today I biked home it was probably about 2:30 in the morning here in Sweden. Because it is summertime in Sweden the darkest color of the sky is a deep beautiful blue at night.  As I was biking in the street I saw a cat that fast walked across the street.   (You know when cats aren't technically running, but their feet are moving really fast as they walk.)  I started biking down the street it was on,  it walkedran on the sidewalk and I biked in the street. 

 It contemplated just leaving me but didn't. We were parallel each other by this time, sidewalk and street a good 7 or 8 feet away.  I would bike and it would fast walk on the other side of the street even with my bike.  There would be parked cars that made it so that I would only see the cat parallel with me between the gaps.  

After we made it all the way down the street I had inched closer and closer with my bike trying to get so close that I could hop off and pet it.  The kitty ran into the barren street and I meowed at it to come back (cuz I speak cat for those of you who didn't know ;)  The sweet kitty responded with a meow and rolled on it's back but as I inched closer it started to leave.  I could tell it probably wanted to be pet, but it didn't know or trust me all too well so I never got to pet it.

There is something about Sweden at three o' clock in the morning that makes me fall in love with this place all over again.  The fresh air, the dim pale blue shaded sky, and the birds chattering and talking to each other.

When it is three at night I usually observe everything more... it is like I am looking at everything from a different set of eyes.  I take in all of my surroundings better. So when I got home and pulled up to my street on my bike, I stopped for a second because a bird nearby was chirping all symphony of assorted chirps and then I heard another bird answer it's call.  It was hard to hear just these two birds talking to each other because there were many other birds talking and singing and such.  But these two birds caught my attention with their distinct chirp and how it was never the same but had some patterns to it.

I could have stood there for hours just listening to these two birds talk.  Nature is breathtaking. 

I love this photo I took that was almost an accident as I was sitting in the car on the way home from the country house.  I was playing with aperture settings and such, but I didnt even realize there was a horse there.  I love the motion of the grass and the stillness of the horse.  

P. S.

All photography is mine unless stated otherwise! 

Ball Favorites

Okay so EVERYONE was gorgeous at the Ball this year.  But I have to just post the winners of my categories; Best Dress, Best Hair, Best All Around, and Best Pair. 

Best Dress

Cerefie wins best dress for many reasons, one because it is crazy fusha pink, which I love.  Two because it was hand made for her by her grandma.  And three because it was the one dress that really stood out the most and not everyone would have been able to pull it off, only Cerefie because she is amazing. There were so many intricate details and little rosettes and diamonds on it, that I wish I had a better picture of it because it was so stunning in person!  She also had a cute matching drawstring bag! <3

Sophia's blue dress with Diamonds and a one shoulder strap wins a close second! So Beautiful! 

Best Hair

Lina definitly had the most intricate and beautiful hair at the ball! I loved it so much.  I want her hair, it is the perfect color and the perfect length <3 She was so stunning! 

Best All Around

Lydia is Best all around because she has the best hair the best dress everything was perfect and she looked like a million bucks. Super classy! <3 If there was a Ball king and queen her and her boyfriend would have won for sure. <33

Best Pair

Johannes and Erika were the best pair.  Hannes looked super sharp and dashing in all black and Erika was gorgeous in her red dress with a sheer black over lay that made it look wine red.  They win best couple because they are a real couple and they are adorable.

These two come in a close second for best pair

- ALL PICS TAKEN FROM FACEBOOK -

The Ball was alot of fun. And for the record everyone was less the amazing looking.  These were just a few personal favs! <3  If I had time I would put everyone in a category! 

Love Sigrid

dancing, singing and dreaming... and partying it up this week cuz im graduating soon!!! (again)

To Do List

1. Write Van Gough Report
2. Find the right cords for the chorus of my song I wrote.
3. Finish Choreography for Schyssta Saker.
4. Buy dad and mormor tickets for my dance show this Saturday.
5. Dance Show on the 21. two performances.
6. Learn a classical song so I can sing it in the concert.
7. Memorize and set everything for the musical.
8. Memorize everything for 10 minute project.
9. Write down choreography for törnrosas dröm.
10. Sketch Esras tattoo design.
11. Bead the rest of Ebbas ring.
12. Bead an animal for Aunts key ring.
13. Song practice with Malin, on thursday at 14:15 I think...
14. Sew my damn pointe shoes.
15. Send letters to Laura and Sofie.
16. Sketch the final draft of Esras tattoo.
17. MUSICAL! premier on the 27th.
18. Study for the math test in three days.
19. Bead Olle's bow tie.

I am stressed. All the things I need to do! =( MEHHHHH

PINK is the new.... Pancake!

The morning after Valborg at a friends house we made Swedish pancakes, like swedes do. And I was determined on having mine be pink, thanks to a beautiful film I saw that was made by one of the girls in my school.  But I think my pink pancakes turned out to be more of a true pink color, and soooo me! =)And of course, you can't eat pancakes without drottningsylt.  Blueberry and rasberry jam. YUM!

OH.. Berlin pics are a comin! Here is a tiny preview of a dance pic from there!

May Second, The day Lord Voldemort was defeated

 I KNOW MY SCAR IS ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT I LIKE IT THERE! 

So today is Harry Potter Day which I am attending/attended.  I found out about it on facebook! You know all those silly facebook events that you say you will be a part of but then forget. Well not this one because it means alot to me.  TODAY May 2nd is the day that Voldemort was defeated and the wizarding world was freed from his hatred and evilness. (are you detecting the nerd yet?) 

SO to celebrate I drew a scar on my head. Put on my Team Potter and I <3 Dobby pins, a snake necklace, my Luna turnip earings and beetle ring... both made my yours truly (ME).  And I biked to school! 

BUT before I left for school my grandmas said that Osama Bin Ladin had been killed today.  I biked with a smile on my face because this man who has kind of been like the Voldemort of our time was killed on the same day Voldemort was.  Now if only they could find some really tall cliff to push the dumbo Bush off of.  Because he is just as bad is Bin Laddy.  All of these men (Bush, Voldy, and Ladin) have been the cause of a lot of death.  

Now you all know how much of a Harry Potter Nerd I am.   =)

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    /    a scar 

-O-O-  an glasses

Right now I am sitting and typing this blog.  Listening to the rain pitter pattering on the window down here in the basement.  I love rain, It is my favorite weather.  

Speaking of favorites, My two favorite songs as of right now are:

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush

 Right as Rain by Adele

LISTEN TO THEM!!!! =) THEY ARE GREAT!

Hope all you Swedes had a GREAT Valborg.  I did! Pics will be coming soon! =)