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Activism, Healthism, and Fat Athletes
More Cabaret is a professional dance troupe, and as such, each dancer is an athlete. You’ll notice that many of our blog posts are about the rigors of training, the aches and pains that come along for...
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Dancing Through Life
Dancing is a way of life. Okay, wow, that sounds really cliche and corny, but I mean it with the utmost sincerity. It wasn’t until Ragen had us begin a dancer’s conditioning routine that I began to...
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Time to Ditch My Running Partners
Okay, I have to admit it, I’m not the person who rolls out of bed and can’t wait to go exercise. I get up grumpy, grumble as I pull on my clothes (which I have to layout the night before or I will...
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place
This one is part blog and part plea for help. The dance studio that we rent is falling apart. The suspended floors are bowing. I have stubbed my toe on the floor (that is, not against the flat surface...
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Blisters, Chub Rub, and My Favorite Things
Have you ever been walking on a hot day with shorts on, and by the time you were home you were in pain from the ever despised “Chub Rub”? Inner thighs…burning and mutilated from chaffing. I have!...
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Why I Don’t Diet – An Ode to My Father
My father died three weeks ago. He was in hospice, with all the pharmacological and technological assistance available to keep him comfortable and pain-free, but it was still, as deaths go, not a good...
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Some Assembly Required
I’ve danced on and off for a good majority of my life. I never got into dancing, but I always enjoyed it and participated in opportunities to dance with zeal. However, becoming a dancer with More...
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My Boogie Shoes
There has been some discussion already about our dance shoes, but I felt I had to talk about this a little more because without specifics people might think we are making this stuff up. I mean what...
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Not Tonight, I Have Rehearsal
(Note: This is the first blog post from our newest member – Mack Davenport. Find out more about her and the rest of the team on our “Meet the Girls” page.) Not tonight, I have rehearsal. Those words...
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Trust and the Death Drop
Tiffany gluing false eyelashes on JD. (Directors Note: I think this requires more trust than the death drop. ~Ragen) Thanks to some partnered choreography, dance rehearsal came with a side lesson. A...
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