This afternoon just after I had climbed the stairs hauling my cart full of clean clothes from the laundromat my friend called. She was in the neighborhood because she was going to a reading at Irondale. I had an hour before I had to pick up My Kid from dance class at Mark Morris so we met for a beverage at a table in the sun and talked about New York Magazine’s ranking of our respective neighborhoods. I was able to join her for the reading of Barbara Wiechmann’s play, The Holy Mother of Hadley New York. It was good AND my friend and I ran into another friend we both knew when we all lived in Seattle who has recently moved to New York and works for RipeTime, “a theatre company devoted to producing ensemble driven theatre infused with rich language, visual power and physical rigor”. How cool is that!
Tag: Mark Morris
Piano and Ballet
My Kid had her first piano lesson on Saturday and she started ballet today. She’s had dance before but this is the real deal with barre work and first position and all that. My head is filled with thoughts of how the music lessons will help her with her standardized tests and the ballet will help her soccer game. Also I’m remembering what lessons I did and did not get as a child as is the mother of the other little girl, current BFF of my daughter. Together we mothers plotted to get our long of limb daughters to agree to take ballet class. Their lack of interest went away when we suggested they go together. At Mark Morris they have the luxury of live piano accompaniment at their class and they don’t have any idea how special that is.