🎟️ No fun at ALL is being had in rehearsals for this year’s Spring Performance : REVEL at @thegrand.ritztheater in #escondido 😹🤌 Join us June 6th and 7th at 2pm for the extravaganza with guest artists from @balletcollective_sd@natmatsmiles & @tash.r_13 💖
🎟️ Tickets are on sale now! Don’t miss our all school spring production featuring @pawstudiocompany in works by @rachel_dauod , Ballet, Hip Hip, Jazz, Contemporary, student choreography, dads, and dancers from @balletcollective_sd 💖
🎟️ Get yours at /ticket/o/194180/performingartsworkshop
#encinitas #ballet #adultballet #danceisforeveryone
🪩 Get ready to have a ball with us June 6th and 7th at @thegrand.ritztheater during REVEL, our all-school Spring Performance featuring @pawstudiocompany in works by @rachel_dauod and @balletcollective_sd
🪩 Tickets on sale soon at dancepaw.com! Ticket link in bio 🎟️
#dance #adultballet #encinitas #escondido #spring
Felt compelled, might delete later 😹 I can’t say it loudly enough : the removal of minor inconvenience in modern society is ruining our ability to behave within it.
When we’re annoyed, inconvenienced, made to wait, presented with unideal circumstances we’re actually being asked to problem solve, consider, to stick with, & to think critically; we’re asked to engage with time; to deal with rather than numb out, react, & move on.
Americans have been dissociated from the real experience of time. We’ve asked it to both collapse & expand to fit our social media habits & a never ending work day. The low-grade anxiety created from not engaging in time in a real way keeps us out of our own lives.
Our gatherings are a veneer of what a gathering is - as long as there’s a scrawly neon sign we can post on instagram with our besties, we can say we gathered, protested, drank, & were merry. I want to know if we were really ever there? Or when we were there, were we just doing what we thought we were supposed to do & moving on?
Modern architecture, cuisine, music, fashion trends look & feel the same - flashy, cheap, clean, & with enough space for the viewer to wonder about where they came from, fit themselves in, & think they need to spend more to belong. Our environments lack personal stories. Lack detail, commitment, thought, & care in construction. Lack the choices of humans enjoying what they’re doing & sharing through creating.
Our arts lack the artist. People are performing for their fears. We see people for what they can offer us rather than who they are & how we can connect.
Some things helping me to engage with time & stay in the world I want to be in : Do your own dishes. Turn your phone off. Dance. Engage in eye contact. Make something. Go for a walk. Wait in line. Call the IRS. Talk to someone who scares you. Read on paper for 15 minutes longer than you want to. Listen to your brain scream & ask why. Cook even if you suck at it. Turn off spell check. Fix something you broke instead of buying a replacement. Gather with no purpose other than gathering. Ask for help. Choose boredom.
Wabi-Sabi is our existence.
Celebrating the cracks is living.
Y después que le pongan salsa 🎶
Que le pongan salsa 🎶
Que le pongan salsa pa mojá, pa mojá 🎶
Que le pongan salsa 🎶
What a year and we’re just getting started! Thank you Patrick and @mami_dt every one of these beautiful moments and the chance to dance with these beautiful people ❤️ I could not be more grateful 🫶 @melomanoent is my happy place 🥹❤️🔥
Cuando pierdes la voz, puedes volver a encontrarla en los pasos y en la música ❤️🔥
Our first official Ladies & Men’s Team ballet-focused practice started off so strong 🩰✨
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We had the honor of welcoming @emilluh on Tuesday for a special ballet workshop, diving into tendus, lines, port de bras, length, allongé, turns, and balance—refining the details that elevate everything we do. 🫶
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So much beautiful energy in the room and such amazing feedback ✨ We’re so excited to keep building and creating more cross-training opportunities for the perform teams like this. 😍
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#ballet #balletclásico #balletclássico #balletlife #sandiego
✨ Dance is a life-long discipline that does so many beautiful things for those who practice it! You don’t have to be a professional ballerina to experience the joys and benefits of ballet, you just have to train like one.
✨ Join us in the studio to unlock your potential, set goals and achieve them, develop strength, flexibility, adaptability, grace, grit, and your creative voice!
✨ Parents - Dance is proven not only to help students academically, but to boost overall life satisfaction 💖 Try your free class or unlimited week for $50 today!
#encinitas #encinitasmom #health #fitness #sandiegodancer
What if I told you it was going to be the best year ever…?
And there were going to be snacks… 👀
Bless all the beautiful people in my life who have shown up for me so hard 🥹😭❤️ Love you so much ❤️
Instagram has got to get over itself with the 20 tags thing 😹
💙 Scenes from a truly lovely weekend at PAW during our winter performance with @pawstudiocompany in works by @rachel_dauod 🫶💖
💙 we are so grateful for this beautiful community of Adult and Student Dancers, their hard work, their teamwork, their artwork! Can’t wait to see what they do for spring performance!
💙 if you’re interested in dancing with us, now is a great time! Rehearsal start this weekend! Sign up now at dancepaw.com
Happppyyyyy Birthday Queen!!!! @emilluh 🎊🎉🎂🎁 Emily!!! You are a true gem, we’re so lucky to have you as part of our dance family!!! 🎂💕💕💕 you have the biggest heart and are so genuine, we love your warm smile and caring nature!! 🥰 Wishing you the most amazing birthday ever filled with lots of love and ofcourse dancing! 💃 Can’t wait to celebrate you!!! 🎉💕❤️🫶🏼😘 we love you!!!! #MelomanoEnt #MelomanoBday
📣 Big news from our dance family 💖
📣 Lovely dancers and families - as you know, PAW has always been a hub for dance, community, and excellence. Since 1996 we have valued individual focus, quality over quantity, and the creation of great things by great people. Over the last couple of years we have experienced significant financial strain under the stress of the economy and unforeseen circumstances. To provide the same quality we have always held as a tenant of dance education and that we are known for, at this time we need to downsize.
We are thrilled to announce that through the kindness and flexibility of our landlords, we will continue to teach and create space for artists in a new location - right next door in the former fish store! This studio is a little smaller than our current Studio A and will have the same great floors, better storage, an indoor space for dancers, and an outdoor lounge for dancers and parents to wait before and after classes.
In a new space, PAW can continue to provide a safe haven for artists and arts appreciators in San Diego. Removing the financial strain the studio is currently under will allow us to perform in larger theaters again, work on detail in technique, bond our community, support artists with better infrastructure, and minimize the time spent in rehearsals. We are also looking forward to growing our community through increased administrative capacity.
Our studio schedule will largely remain the same. Please note the new schedule is not finalized! We are still trying to make sure it will work for our teachers and students, incorporate Hip Hop, and add new adult classes.
We are all looking forward to moving forward strong, better, and more well connected and being able to provide the same quality instruction and space for community we always have. We’re looking forward to doing it with all of you! We do not have a target date as of yet but the move will not be far off. If you have some hands, we’d love the help moving forward!
Please reach out with any questions or concerns!
Yours,
Emily Miller
Director
