Volume 5, Issue 7: July 2010 www.katwildish.com

KAT'S CALENDAR *July 19-22: Kat will be guest teaching master classes at the Art of Dance in Chester, NJ. *August 2-6: Kat will teach in upstate NY at the Decker School of Ballet. Super subs TBA. *August 9-29: Performing in New York Summer Intensive Workshop, with 3 showcase performances August 28-29. Register now! *August 28-29: Performing in New York SHOWCASES. Details below. *Sept. 6 LABOR DAY: Ailey Extension is open! 10:30am class and 3pm holiday class. Make your plans to be here in New York City for The Labor Day Weekend! We will be dancing at The Ailey Extension! *Sept 23-Oct 1: Kat will guest teach master classes in Alaska, at the Ketchican Theatre Ballet

POINTE & HEALTH Pointe Technique Classes June 27-July 31st SATURDAYS ONLY! 6:15-7:30pm There is no Wendesday Pointe from June 27th – July 31st (the entire month of July, because because the Ailey School is back in session and we have no space. It happens every July). Regular Pointe technique class will resume our normally scheduled Wednesdays and Saturdays in August through September. You may want to try to do the beginning of your regular class barre in pointe for a few minutes, but make sure you get that lil toe down to support your whole foot. **Grishko Dancewear 309 West 50th Street shop, 2nd Fl between 8th and 9th Avenues. 917.262.0783. Go see Judy and Adam for a Pointe shoe fitting & mention Kat's newsletter for a discount on pointe shoes! **CUSTOMIZE YOUR POINTE, TECHNIQUE, JAZZ, TAP AND CHARACTER SHOES WITH "MAKE IT FIT KIT" BECAUSE NO ONE HAS TWO FEET EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE! **Eating before class: Time it Right Eating too much before exercising can cause you to feel sluggish or have an upset stomach. That's because your muscles and your digestive system are competing with each other for energy resources. On the flip side, not eating before you exercise can be just as bad. Low blood sugar levels that result from not eating can make you feel weak, faint or tired, and your mental abilities may be affected as well, making you slower to react. Aim for 150 to 200 calories about 30 to 60 minutes prior to your routine. **Eat After Your Class To help your muscles recover and to replace their glycogen stores, eat a meal that contains both protein and carbohydrates within two hours of your exercise session. Protein isn't your body's food of choice for fueling exercise, but it does play a role in muscle repair and growth. Refuel with another 150 to 200 calories after your workout. Source: Mayoclinic.com & our Friends at Gold's Gym. Wow you can join Golds Gym now for only $699 and receive the summer free. Tell um Kat sent ya!!!

PERFORMING IN NEW YORK REPERTORY WORKSHOP 2010 DON"T WAIT! SIGN UP NOW!!! We go international this time with guests from Japan and many new and exciting choreographers and companies participating, including Shauna Sorensen, Martin Lofsnes and 360º Dance Company, Ben Briones, Mishi Castroverde, Vic DiMonda, Bev Brown, Claudia Schreier & dancers, Pavaan Thimmaiah, Akemi Nakano advanced students from Japan, Michele Cuccaro with Inner Soul Dance Project, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Roman Baca with the Exit 12 Dance Company, and many more! **Mark your calendars to participate in our summer Performing in New York intensive workshop, August 9-29. Details & sign up here. Learn, refine, practice and perform in the month of August. Kat Wildish brings more than 30 years of teaching and performance experience from the world's great stages to this signature, hands-on three-week ballet workshop that culminates in a professionally-produced showcase at the Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City. Held conveniently in midtown Manhattan, the full workshop includes over 30 classes, 3 rehearsals per week, culminating in three performances of classical repertoire. **Costume Note: Participants in Kat's August intensive: Men will need a Renaissance shirt (info here) and women will need white Romantic length 24" tutu, which you may purchase from the Capezio store here in midtown, if you don't already own one. Or try borrowing from a classmate who danced with us previously. Does anyone have a tambourine? I have one, but we may need 4-6! **More info on our showcases can be found here. **Pictures and videos from our March performances are posted here on our Facebook Fan Page.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION Have you seen the new Ailey website with updated pix & blog? You may be in some of the pictures. Watch for a blog post about the World Cup adagio coming soon. Click for The Ailey Extension info or call 212-405-9500…Read this really cool blog, written by Miriam Newman mentioning our class "dancing in the fishbowl", just the other day…Train like a pro at Ailey…Woo Hoo: Olga Belosotsky was named Women of the Year in Medicine! Extremely awesome! Congratz Olga!...Gary is available to work catering jobs...speaking of catering, check out David's Hart of the Apple updated site…Shayna Harris will be doing Radio City again this holiday season, as a Famous Rockette and needs a place tutu stay from the last bit of September through the end of December around $1000. Contact her on facebook or ask me for her #...Taylor also needs a cheap place to move to when her lease is up in August. And she'll be teaching a donation-based ballet class on the 29th…Tyler Brian Stickel is in Orlando, FL doing the show Beauty and the Beast at Disney's Hollywood Studios…Jamal Story's book is: 12:34. Order it online today!...Keep up to date with Katherine Weissman's writings & please help save our libraries…Woo Hoo Matthew Steffens vacation swing in PROMISES PROMISES on BROADWAY! YEAH! His Broadway Debut! Goes into the show in August Woo Hoo Congrats Matthew!...Ivory McKay is currently in North Carolina working at an awesome theater, Flat Rock Playhouse, til August 15, returns to NYC for a couple of weeks, then he's off to Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine to do CHICAGO and he's there til Oct 25th! Wow you go Ivory!...Janet Dickinson is doing a show on Martha's Vineyard this summer, then she's off to do the national tour of "9 to 5 the Musical" in the fall, but hopes to take class with us in august as she will be rehearsing in NYC…Karen Wells will be doing MELT classes here at Ailey on Saturday July 10, 17; she just finished guesting a MELT master class workshop for the dancer last weekend at Atlanta Ballet and will be conducting a few MELT workshops on July 23 in NYC. You go Girl!...Yummy Yummy Brewla Frozen Bars, the ones Rebecca Dengrove created, will be on sale at the Fulton Stall Market that is part of the South Street Seaport through the end of the summer. It operates from 12pm - 6pm. Go check out all the flavors. And hey don't forget about Rebbecca's Mom: she is the mom that will make you a custom leotard! And you know what, while you are down at the South Street Seaport check out the "Bodies" exhibit. You know I recommend knowing all you can about your body and how it works!...Catherine Gallant left Sunday to dance in Paris at the chateau that Paris Singer bought for Isadora in 1914. They are rededicating it as Espace Isadora Duncan. Should be fun!...BROADWAY BARES XX: "Strip-opoly" was a landmark success, breaking all previous fund raising records, filling legendary Roseland Ballroom, and surpassing the goal of one million dollars! With sexy dance numbers like "Go to Jail," "Luxury Tax," "Boardwalk" and "Pass Go," Sunday's 9:30PM and Midnight shows featured more than 216 of the Great White Way's sexiest dancers (many are your classmates: Alfie, Adam, Ben, Gio, Reed, tutu name a few)…Thomas Victor says that The Gulf's wildlife desperately need our help – to support the efforts of the zoos and aquariums that are taking in oil-covered animals and rehabilitating them back to health.See here. Thank you for your support of animals affected by the oil spill…Check out the gendance tribue to Michael Jackson here...Keep an eye out for Kat and Taylor in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section on July 18…

PERFORMANCE CORNER *Fabulous Gypsy Night: see Kristina Staykova dance Flamenco with the Gypsy brothers Cintron July 6th @ the BBKing's Times Square. Doors open @ 6PM, showtime @ 8 PM. Contact kristinastaykova@gmail.com for reduced tkts! $15 (Arthur will be taking pix & I'll be there) * Fire Island Dance Festival XVI - Saturday, July 17 5:00PM & 7:00 PM. Sunday July 18 5:00 PM. Fire Island Pines, NY. DRA's signature event (my most favorite charity) and the most prestigious and hottest Fire Island event of the season returns to The Pines! Scheduled to celebrate the Festival's sweet sixteen are: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre principal Marcelo Gomes, Joffrey Ballet Chicago principal Fabrice Calmels, Camille Brown, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre and San Francisco Ballet principals Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith performing choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. FIDF 16 will also mark premiere dances by Travis Wall and Stephen Petronio. MOMIX will present a special performance as part of a festival kick-off party for leadership supporters only on Friday, July 16 at the Albert Lepage Pavilion, Whyte Hall. Purchase tickets online and see videos from FIRE ISLAND DANCE FESTIVAL 15. *The Latin Choreographers Festival - Taylor performs with Exit 12 Dance Company. July 16-18, 2010, Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 3pm. Dance New Amsterdam Theatre (DNA) 230 Broadway, 2nd FL. Tickets and info here. *Break the Ballet Guinness World Record Book, Most Ballerinas on Pointe at One Time. Monday Aug 2. 6-8pm The bandstand in Central Park (Kat is on the advisory committee) Register here: Balletrecord@yahoo.com RE'VE'RENCE *Marina Semyonova, Star of Bolshoi Ballet Dies at 102. Ms. Semyonova was the first great Russian ballerina to emerge in the Soviet era and a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater. *Jonathan Wolken, Co-founder of Pilobolus, Dies

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