today was chanda's last day of her week long ballet intensive with fabrice herrault (which she did last year also). it was held at a studio in the alvin ailey building on 55th street.
the sky was particularly cloudy and colorful today. i couldn't resist taking pictures . .
the ailey studios are clean and bright and have great natural light from the large windows.
fabrice doesn't allow pictures or movies during class observation so i tried to quietly take during the pre-class warm-up with only my phone.
the first half of the class was technique with fabrice, and the second half was variations with san francisco ballet principal dancer sofiane sylve. chanda had missed the first week's variation of the lilac fairy because we were on the cape. this week they worked on a swan lake variation which she had just done during the ellison intensive. she was not happy about this (though morgana and i found it very amusing) and put in a little extra time on her own and with sofiane to work on the sleeping beauty piece, which she chose to present today. the music is beautiful and morgana and i thought she did very well with it.
it was nice to have morgana along for the day.
crossing eighth avenue . .
and walking to the N and R train line . .
to get downtown to union square.
the artwork on the right is part of metronome by kristen jones and andrew ginzel, who write that it is "an investigation into the nature of time." at noon and midnight puffs of smoke come out of the hole in the midst of the golden, wavy circle accompanied by an explosion of sound, signifying the change of time like a noon whistle. i've actually never noticed the "sound." i think i need to pass by at noon and pay attention.
we walked chanda to tenth street where she went east and we went west. a friend had invited her to visit at their upstate house for the weekend and she was meeting them at their apartment.
first presbyterian church on fifth avenue . .
jefferson market on sixth . .
seventh avenue, on our way to otto's . .
for chips and guacamole and tacos,
with greg.
night light . .
still humid and warm this evening . .
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