Hooray! Ballet is finally beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 8. It will be wonderful to see everyone again. This will be a great week.
If you want to register for classes (or just want information), contact Lynne at 249-3441.
We will be doing extensive disinfecting between classes, temperature tests, sanitizing hand, mask-wearing in common areas, and social distancing.
Lita LeonardoDaily Prayers
August 26 at 11:04 PM ·
Amen.
Registration is open for the 2020-2021 dance year. Classes for 3 year olds through pointe will begin Sept. 8. For information, please call Lynne at 249-3441 or email at lynneb.mcd@gmail.com.
Royal Opera House
October 9, 2019 at 8:01 AM ·
❄️ Before World Ballet Day, here's a glimpse into The Royal Ballet's rehearsals of Winter Dreams
Join more than 30 dance companies around the world for livestreamed rehearsals and interviews on 23 October - don't miss it 🌟
Alonzo Powell
April 17 at 5:21 AM ·
Soooo...would this be a cat scan or a copy cat?
Melody Gilbert
April 9 at 10:09 AM ·
Fun fact: 1949--In the midst of the polio epidemic--a disease that placed tens of thousands of children inside iron lungs, and many thousands more around the country quarantined at home--a young San Diego schoolteacher named Eleanor Abbott invented Candy Land, one of the most popular board games of all time. Abbott created the game inside a polio ward, as a patient herself, with the hope of giving the immobilized children around her a momentary sense of freedom and mobility. As a way of further connecting with the kids, Abbott featured on the game board an illustration of a boy with a leg brace. Milton Bradley was quick to buy the game from Abbott. And to this day, Candy Land continues to be popular, more than 65 years after the disease was eradicated. Of course so many of us played this game as kids, but I found the back story fascinating. Who knew ? Makes me wonder ...what will be invented from this pandemic?
Josh Doughty
June 13 at 12:01 PM ·
Who knew this?
Karen McDermott
October 14 at 3:43 PM ·
IRISH BLESSING
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.’
'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked. 'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.
'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.
Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
It's National Friendship Week Send this to everyone you consider A FRIEND.
Pass this on, and brighten some ones day.
AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH:
I hope it works…
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
and may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead :)
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Legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov Solos: Don Quixote/Giselle - Dance Channel TV
Due to Governor Whitmer's order the MCD Thanksgiving break will begin Friday, November 20, 2020. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
In case you didn't see your email, there are no classes the week of Nov. 30- Dec. 4. At the present time classes are scheduled to resume the following week.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Classes are now scheduled to resume on Wednesday, December 9. I am eagerly looking forward to seeing all of you again.
As most of you already know, the governor has increased the shut down by another 12 days, so classes will not resume tomorrow, December 9.
There is no ballet Tuesday, Feb. 9, since MAPS is closed due to weather conditions.
There is no ballet today, Mon., Feb. 8, since MAPS is closed.
No classes today, Feb. 15, 2021, due to MAPS being closed due to cold weather.
