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Once again, I'm teaching again at Twin Cities Tantsy (TCTantsy), at Music General in Brainerd, and at Spotlight Productions in Eagan.

Go online to www.tctantsy.com, for information regarding classes in south Minneapolis. We offer ballet and character classes. We will be having classes in June and July and a summer intensive August 1-5, 2011.

TCTantsy Ballet and Character Dance Summer Intensive August 1-5, 2011, at the Center for Performing Arts, 38th and Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis.

Until summer, I'm still teaching at Spotlight Dance Productions in Eagan. Here’s a link to their website: http://www.spotlightproductionsdancestudio.com/

I’ll be guest teaching at Music General in Brainerd again this summer 2011. I’ve been traveling up to Music General since 2004. Sue and Dan Kuhn, Mabel Tamasy, Amy Borash, Roseanne Reed, and all the staff, students, and parents have been absolutely marvelous and a joy to work with. They have a beautiful dance complex, with three dance studios, a café with a dance library, a dance wear shop, a sheet music and musical instrument store, and a stage lighting and video/audio production business — all on site. Dan does conventions, shows, and video and audio production work. Here’s the link to Music General’s website: http://www.musicgeneral.com/

NEW!! For a long time now, I have been contemplating creating a second blog because I've needed an outlet for writing about subjects that are not about the ballet. My new blog is called "Mouse Tales and Other Musings"and will feature humorous anecdotes, original short stories, poems and songs, and commentary on current topics in psychology about the creative imagination. I've kicked things off with the following short articles:

"The Mouse of the Lord",
"The Mouse that Ate the Cat",
"The Mouse God, Apollo Smintheus", and
"Getting In Touch With the Inner Mouse"

NEW on my Ballet Blog (Click this link): “Getting in Touch With Your Inner Ballet Master”. I've written 3 recent blog posts about the recent film, "The Black Swan" (not for the faint-hearted). The titles of my recent posts are:

"The Black Swan: The Canary in the Coal Mine of the Collective Unconscious",

"The Black Swan: The Ancestral Cultural and Psychological Lineage of the Film", and

"The Black Swan: Inside the Rabbit Warren of the Fragmenting Mind of the Addicted Personality."

Not easy reading, but may be helpful if you happened to see the movie and feel disturbed by its images. Each post takes a slightly different tack, but each post complements the others. Taken together, the three posts present a fuller understanding of the film which may help to salvage some light out of the darkness of this deeply disturbing film.

On-going:

My on-line shop, “Wilor’s Whimsy”. Check it out by clicking on the link I’ve created: “Wilor’s Whimsy”

I’ve created all-original designs for dancers and non-dancers: T-shirts, mugs, magnets, ornaments, note cards, tiles, baby items, etc. Currently, I have 4 sections in my shop: a “Golden Bough” memorabilia section; a “Ballet Whimsy” section, where you can see my “Bag Lady Designs” and “WilorWear” and “WilorWare” designs; a section featuring my “Original Artwork” from the 1960s (Bet you didn’t know I used to be a painter in my youth!); and a section of non-dance-related fun stuff called “Sheer Silliness”. I’m always trying to make things better organized and stocked, so if you have a “wish list” or a comment, I’d like to receive feedback and ideas for developing things.