Massage School, Work, Learning to Let Go   Massage School started Jan 1987, and the pressure is on. Not only do I have school and work, but I also have [...]

How Does One Ever Say Goodbye?   About 3 years before I retired from ballet, I knew that I would need to take that step. Stepping away from the one [...]

Berlin Ballet – Symphony in D   If I had not gone to Ballet West, one of the options that I was looking at (if I stayed in Europe) was [...]

Ballet West – The Choreographic Conference at Sundance – Expanding Beyond Ballet   I have to admire Bruce Marks’ attempts to bring Ballet West opportunities that were unusual and innovative. [...]

Learning to Embrace the Kali in Me   The powerful emotional journey of this life is something I clearly craved deeply. Within each life, we have the potential to see, [...]

Ballet is the Journey Between Balance and Abandon So often the world only sees performances and while that is a very magical world, the world that all dancers know the [...]

Suriname – The Journey Home The adventure to Suriname, seemed at moments an amazing jungle dream. In other moments, it seemed like a nightmare that I could not wake up [...]

Suriname – After the Show – The Black Water Resort Up to that point, Herman’s and my total focus was to just get the shows off the ground and complete [...]

Suriname – The Performance The days before the performance finally tick away. I realize that my time in Suriname was interesting, exotic, educational, dangerous, and complicated. There are moments when [...]

Suriname – Learning the Ways of the Jungle As Herman and I went to bed in the sweltering heat of the jungle. His mother came in and placed some mosquito [...]

Off to Suriname with Herman Jiesamfoek The many weeks of touring to New York City and Washington, DC were coming to an end. I was looking forward to having a [...]

Rudi and the Fountain     There are those moments that last forever in the mind. They seem so outlandish that the absurdity makes me smile, and we recognize that [...]