We have layoff weeks during our 38 week contract at Texas Ballet Theater. The inception of my company was during my two week layoff in December of 2012 in Wisconsin visiting my family. I had just got done dancing in 30 plus shows of The Nutcracker, so I was ready to relax for a few weeks embracing cabin fever due to the Wisconsin winters.
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I had the pleasure of working with Andy Keye + Whitney Photography for Dance Jox’s first photo shoot. Working for Texas Ballet Theater I had met Andy Keye who was a frequent photographer. I had met him on a few occasions before really getting to know him. What a good guy! He had shot large events like our annual TuTu Chic fashion show sponsored by Stanley Korshak in Dallas, and our Christmas time Nutcracker Tea Party.
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Dance Jox Video
These moves consist of :
Pirouettes,
Entrechat six (1:10)
Pas De Chat (1:13)
Double Tour En L’air (1:18)
Revoltade (1:29)
Double Assemblé (1:35)
Double Saut de basque En Dedans (1:36)
Double Saut de Basque(1:41)
Barrel turns into 540 jump (1:48)
With Billy Elliot packing them in on Broadway, it’s a good time to think about how boys treat each other when some of them choose dance as a pastime or career. Even the popular 2006 film Happy Feet addressed a similar issue, albeit from a penguin’s perspective. Why do so many men have trouble accepting that their sons are born to dance? In both of these films the fathers were the problem, but boys’ peers can be difficult too.