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(hint: if you pay very close attention, you’ll see me awkwardly breakdancing) And so it’s over. I’ve had an amazing month. Here’s the tally: 29 Dance classes danced 15 Chapters (draft complete) & 13 blog entries written 3 web sites & 3 videos worked on 2 houseguests accomodated 1 book launched 1 media release sent [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win25/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! We’re getting close to the end, and it’s starting to show. Some people have long surpassed the 28/28 goal, and now have shiny star stickers in boxes on the leaderboard, stretching all the way up to 40 classes or more! This [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win25/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! I was going to write about another theme entirely, but then something miraculous happened: Way back in February 2004 (I think. I know it was before this blog post, and it was winter.) I broke my toe while practicing a sequence [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win20/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! And really awesome prizes, too, in honour of SWEATFEST! Read on… Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. Come to Babar en Ville, and you could win FIVE dance classes at STUDIO SWEATSHOP (just five. no one’s going to make you [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win16/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! This one is going to be short, but life-changingly poingant, I promise. I learned the same thing in two different classes last week. In Hula-Hooping, it sounded like this: “If you feel like you’re about to drop the hoop, spin; The [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win15/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! We have a leaderboard now. And we love our leaderboard. Every day before class, it is the subject of as much scrutiny as if it were a casting announcement. And in a way, it is a casting announcement– we are looking [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win13/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! I had another wardrobe emergency yesterday. I was getting my picture taken by my good old friend, Tristan Brand in Old Montreal– known for tourist traps, cobblestones, overpriced food, lots of cool old stuff, and being nowhere near my apartment– when [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win9/28 classes in 28 daysget your sweat on at Studio Sweatshop! OK, THERE’S the soreness. In the end, I did 10 classes last week (9 that I’m counting). That was too many. I was feeling pretty great up until about 8 or 9 or so, and then in the morning on Saturday, [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win6/28 classes in 28 days Last night was my day off SweatFest, so my counter hasn’t budged. I just wanted to log in to mention that not dancing after several consecutive days of dancing feels really weird– much much weirder than the fatigue of doing 7 classes in 3 days– twitchy, restless, [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win6/28 classes in 28 days When I started this challenge, I thought that my main issue would be soreness. But it’s not. My main issue is LAUNDRY. You go through a lot more clothes when you’re sweating through them daily. I actually had to go buy more workout clothes yesterday, because I [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win4/28 classes in 28 days I actually did 3 classes last night, but I’m only counting two of them, because the middle class was weird. The first class of the night was House, so I felt pretty much totally in my element. I play favourites, and even though I wrote a whole [...]
SweatFest Meter of Win2/28 classes in 28 days 2! Just 26 more classes and I’m done! I’m so close I can taste it. It was great to see all the classes so full last night! SweatFest registrations were already up to 20 (from 8 on Saturday) and my prophesy that SweatFest would force b-boys to [...]
Big announcement… I’m doing something a little nuts to celebrate the launch of Rhythm and Blues. Watch! I’m sending this media release out to national media this morning too, so I’m utterly bound to this. Discuss! Dancing Fool Jill Murray celebrates new YA novel Rhythm and Blues at SweatFest Studio Sweatshop challenges students to 28 [...]
