Lori in Toe Shoes Prepping for Ballet Class on a Friday Afternoon

Lori eats one meal a day. She has danced most of her life. As I mentioned earlier, she is one of many frequenters of Broadway Dance Center, where yours truly and a couple thousand more go to work their shit out. I wanted to do a project with Lori but she didn't understand. Our conversations were incredibly strained because she kept believing that she needed to prove and re-explain her qualifications as a dancer and performer for me to be interested in her, when I was the one who approached her in the first place. I think she thought I was 'real-deal.' I began to get the feeling no one had paid her any attention in half a century. None. In the end (after a few weeks) it became clear that photography also deals in short-term relationships / flings / quick escalations of emotion. I wanted something from her, and then I didn't.


*Note: We still write each other.*

Broadway Dance Center (for Jackie)

as He could-a-been-a-contendah, i should-a-been-a-dancer...i mean, i am...i was...earlier in life...and now..i actually consider myself somewhat of a mover...my dance profe says i have a lot of 'swag' when i dance...maybe. but i don't think so. it's all a front. in real life i have no swag. just some pride. but in dance classrooms we're all effecting some sense of ourselves that lays dormant when we are expected to be sitting or walking, or even jogging, or yoga-ing...the beautiful thing about dancing is that it is like a fingerprint...have i said this before? i know in conversation i have...we could all be learning the same steps, but we are all going to express ourselves differently...we will look as unique as we actually are...the way we move is another type of fingerprint, no? body language? for starters? anyway, at broadway dance center there are professionals and amateurs, foreign students and old lady ballerinas, people like me and allegria who dance because it disconnects us from 'the world' and connects us with life. there is nothing better. but then, i have never been in love, just hungout in its greenroom a few times.