chanda finished up with her last summer dance intensive today. greg and i arrived at marymount manhattan college at 4:10 pm (we were last here for a limon intensive that morgana did in 2013 which you can see here).
they performed several class exercises, two dance pieces from the rioult repertoire, and one original work choreographed by mr. rioult on them just this week. it was all wonderful and i think i should be able to eventually link in several pics and videos in the coming weeks. right now you can see excerpts that they put up on their instagram page under rioultdanceny (click here and then click on the latest post, which is presently the one on the top left). the company is opening a new studio in astoria and chanda is hoping to be able to take class with them once they're settled in their new home. i was impressed by how hard they worked (they danced from 10 am to 6:00 with only a half hour break for lunch--but chanda never complained that she felt overextended. since it was modern dance and didn't have any pointe work, her feet didn't suffer as much), the friendliness of everyone in the company, the repertory they learned, and the original choreography. it was fun to see how much the students enjoyed performing at the end.
the streets were quiet on the way home . . a typical august for nyc . . and the evening light was beautiful uptown . .
and downtown.
greg cooked the burgers for us (from meat we had picked up in the morning from our amish farmer who makes a delivery every other week to a designated site) . .
and chanda collapsed on the bed and caught up with email and instagram . .
escarole, tomato, cauliflower and cucumber from the vegetable box . .
buon appetito!
