Weekend Highlights :: Parsons and Pizza!
This weekend was really wonderful!
Saturday night I had the opportunity to go and see Parsons Dance Company at The Music Hall. First of all...if you're local, holy jeebus, have any of you seen the renovated lobby yet? It's crazy awesome. The only way I could describe it would be Hogwarts meets Deco. Weird, but very cool. Second of all, if you haven't heard of Parsons Dance Company you're going to stop what you're doing and visit that link right now! Humor me, your bloggy friend, by at least watching the video intro to the website. EDIT: Okay you don't even have to go to the website, I found the intro video on YouTube and have embedded it below. How nice am I? The show was so exciting. Parsons is right up there with Trey McIntyre Project as far as favorite companies go. Check out their company montage below:
I was very nervous to go to the show because many of my old students were there. It ended up being very nice though. It was so good to see "my girls." They all crowded around me during intermission like the paparazzi at a press junket. It was too cute. I miss them so!
Anyways, back to the dancy dance-ness. Parsons does this incredible signature solo work called "Caught" where the dancer creates an illusion of flight by tour de force jumping all over the stage and the use of a strobe light. Usually it's performed by a man, but this time it was performed by a woman, dancer Julie Blume (from NH!), and she was incredible! The amazingness of it doesn't quite translate to film, but I've found a decent video of the company founder, David Parsons, dancing the solo, if you're interested to get the idea:
If you're interested in seeing more Parsons related vidoes, check out Suspension Production's YouTube Channel. The videos are very high quality, I'm assuming that Suspension works directly with the dance company.
On to cooking!
My mum generously gifted a ball of home made pizza dough to me the other day,
so I made Apple Walnut Pizza!
This was delicious, and very easy to make. For the most part, I followed the recipe at Stephen Cooks. I omitted cooking the apples in butter first, and cooked the pizza for slightly longer, (about 26 minutes), at a lower temperature, (375F). My oven tends to be unpredictable at 450F, so I didn't want to take my chances on burning dinner! It's a very good recipe, and I would definitely make it again.
I'm still a little bit under the weather, but I'm in good spirits. Today promises to be a fun one, because after work I'm taking a cheese-making class! I'm so excited! Laura Ingalls - watch out!
Today I'm thankful for seeing an inspiring dance show this weekend. For rolling out of bed and doing my ballet barre. Tiny steps. What are you thankful for today?
Saturday night I had the opportunity to go and see Parsons Dance Company at The Music Hall. First of all...if you're local, holy jeebus, have any of you seen the renovated lobby yet? It's crazy awesome. The only way I could describe it would be Hogwarts meets Deco. Weird, but very cool. Second of all, if you haven't heard of Parsons Dance Company you're going to stop what you're doing and visit that link right now! Humor me, your bloggy friend, by at least watching the video intro to the website. EDIT: Okay you don't even have to go to the website, I found the intro video on YouTube and have embedded it below. How nice am I? The show was so exciting. Parsons is right up there with Trey McIntyre Project as far as favorite companies go. Check out their company montage below:
I was very nervous to go to the show because many of my old students were there. It ended up being very nice though. It was so good to see "my girls." They all crowded around me during intermission like the paparazzi at a press junket. It was too cute. I miss them so!
Anyways, back to the dancy dance-ness. Parsons does this incredible signature solo work called "Caught" where the dancer creates an illusion of flight by tour de force jumping all over the stage and the use of a strobe light. Usually it's performed by a man, but this time it was performed by a woman, dancer Julie Blume (from NH!), and she was incredible! The amazingness of it doesn't quite translate to film, but I've found a decent video of the company founder, David Parsons, dancing the solo, if you're interested to get the idea:
If you're interested in seeing more Parsons related vidoes, check out Suspension Production's YouTube Channel. The videos are very high quality, I'm assuming that Suspension works directly with the dance company.
On to cooking!
My mum generously gifted a ball of home made pizza dough to me the other day,
so I made Apple Walnut Pizza!
This was delicious, and very easy to make. For the most part, I followed the recipe at Stephen Cooks. I omitted cooking the apples in butter first, and cooked the pizza for slightly longer, (about 26 minutes), at a lower temperature, (375F). My oven tends to be unpredictable at 450F, so I didn't want to take my chances on burning dinner! It's a very good recipe, and I would definitely make it again.
I'm still a little bit under the weather, but I'm in good spirits. Today promises to be a fun one, because after work I'm taking a cheese-making class! I'm so excited! Laura Ingalls - watch out!
Today I'm thankful for seeing an inspiring dance show this weekend. For rolling out of bed and doing my ballet barre. Tiny steps. What are you thankful for today?
posted by Geek+Nerd at 9:15 AM
2 Comments:
Your pizza looks great! I've been in a pizza mood lately. I'll have to try that one. Where was the cheese making class? I make Mozzarella using a kit from http://www.cheesemaking.com/, but if there are classes locally I'd love to check them out.
Mmm... now I'm craving some homemade ricotta. I think I'll make some on Thursday.
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