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I'm thinking about...

... ENDURABLE VALUES

Maturity and success

This Harper's bazaar article is the biggest inspiration for me in a while along with the film Jappeloup:

Kate Walsh: I made it after 35
"My age gives me perspective and the confidence to speak out about things, to embrace change, and the courage to take risks.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road. But if anyone had told me that I would be thankful when I looked back on celebrating my 28th birthday alone in New York City with a piece of stale cheesecake, working at one of my three waitressing jobs, I would have punched him. During those broke years, I shared not one but two studio apartments, first with my brother, and then with my pal Karen, sleeping head to foot in the same bed. I never dreamed that one day I would land my breakout role at the ripe old age of 36, as a doctor onGrey's Anatomy. But now, at 44, I look back and I am eternally grateful for that lonesome birthday.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. Anytime I wanted to quit acting, my brother Joe would come visit me at work and patiently ask what I would do instead. The conversation always yielded the identical result: "Okay, I'm gonna keep acting." Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I never worried about my age, though, until I moved to Los Angeles in 1999. That's when I had a look around and realized that I was infinitely replaceable. There would always be someone younger, prettier, sexier, stronger, faster (and probably cheaper) than me. But I didn't let it deter me. Maybe that's because I grew up watching classic films, and my heroines—Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, and Judi Dench—were all working in their 30s, 40s, and beyond. I was never defeated by age; I was inspired by it.

At 30, I thought I had made it because I landed a recurring role on The Drew Carey Show. Everyone told me, "The world is your oyster," and "You'll get loads of development deals from the networks." I went into pilot season feeling confident and on top of the world. I tested for eight or nine shows that year, which was a personal record—and got not a single one. After that my ego and I took a vacation to Anguilla to recover from the rejection and humiliation. It was a big turning point: I learned to take my pride out of the audition rooms. So when a casting director said that my audition was great but the producers didn't think my shoes were sexy enough, instead of crying I ran to Macy's at the Beverly Center to buy a pair of five-inch stilettos.

And when Grey's Anatomy became must-see TV and my entire life changed, I felt like it was the moment I had been waiting for my whole life; after all, I had spent three decades working toward it. By then I had the character and the personal infrastructure to enjoy the incredible ride. Through my years of slogging through waitressing and bit parts, I had developed the capacity to weather challenges, rejection, and the various personalities you encounter, with grace and tact. I had been able to actually live life, unobserved, paparazzi-free, and make a ton of mistakes in private, when I was younger.

My age gives me perspective and the confidence to speak out about things, to embrace change, and the courage to take risks. I even started my own fragrance business, Boyfriend, at age 42. Trust me, it has not been easy. I've faced obstacles, missteps, and learning curves, but I know how to balance the role of CEO with my day job as an actress because I mastered the juggling act in my 20s.

The best part is that I know I'm just getting started. I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine."

The entire article here

I can't get enough...

... of guys wearing a tiny navy bonnet

Intelligence and Einstein

I nearly cry seeing this because my parents believed so strongly that shool and studies were the best thing for me and I spent so much of my life trying not to deceive them!

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Happy new year!

Darling, in 2013, 

BE CRAZY BE HAPPY

:-)

A new blog!!

Back to my old ways here but I've just launched a new blog. This one is dedicated to dance and dancers. You can see it here: http://the-dancing-skeleton.blogspot.fr/

Audition at Le Lido

Me, backstage, just before the audition

Well, I must say, speaking of danse, it's not a really good time for me:

• I've dropped the idea of taking my EAT exam because I felt like I should be focusing on taking auditions for shows I'd like to be part of than taking an exam for something I don't really wanna do. 
• People are not answering my applications. Don't know why...I had one really nice audition at Le Cirque d'Hiver three weeks ago and since, nothing.

Well, let me tell you my story with Le lido. First thing you need to know is that it's not ending well I wasn't choosen :-( ! I sent an email last sunday and on tuesday I had an answer, saying: "we have an audition on friday". I wasn't really prepared but I couldn't refuse. It turned out to be some kind of "private audition": we were only two girls, the other one was coming straight from the USA to take three auditions there. We were taught a choregraphy but rapidly stopped by what seemed to be the Big Boss "you're not what we are looking for". He clearly didn't have time to waste. After getting dressed, I came shyly to ask for some explanation and he was really clear: "you're technic is not good enought". HARD

After being depressed the whole week end, I've begun to work again HARDER

Nice cushion

My life is just about learning to dance anyway.....I'm an happy girl!Those guys are basically dancing in the rain:

From Youtube:
"for Dreal, stay up my brother. east oakland, california.

Dancers are No Noize (red jacket), Man (back jacket), BJ (striped shirt), Dreal (white shirt).

Directed and edited by Yoram Savion

Music by Yung FX, Erk tha Jerk & COOP.

www.YAKFILMS.com"

Philosophy for a living 2

Small step

Hey guys,

The next step I've chosen for my life is to take the french E.A.T dance exam. It's the first part of the examination you need to take if you want to be a dance teacher in France (except for hip hop dance teachers, they need no diploma at all). It's the technical part, the other one is the theorical part. I don't really want to be a teacher but:

• this is an excellent exercise to improve my dance, to take me higher during the first two months of the year
• this diploma will increase my credibility when I propose dance projects
• why not teaching to earn some money if I need some!

Even if I'm doing a lot of ballet and hip hop, I've chosen the jazz option because I think it's the discipline I'm better at. I've begun today to look precisely at what I will have to do to take the exam: I'll have a set variation, a free one and an improvisation part, all this must include "technical movements".

• First problem: WHAT'S IS TECHNICAL MOVEMENTS? 

SOLVED
I've just have a look at this very useful and inspirationnal webpage: http://www.offjazz.com/term-jazz.htm . Of course, I perfectly know how to realise most of this steps but I just don't kn ow their names....time ti learn and I wiil be a real professionnal!

• Second problem: WHERE CAN I PRACTICE?

I've book a training session for the set variation but, even tough, I need to rehearse the free one....

The Queen of All MichEtoneuses

Zahia from her 2012-2013 collection

I admire her, her moving story, her success and her beauty but I also hate her: she represents a great threat for girls like me, she's likely to target the same guys as me, taking them from me with her unashamed sex appeal....well, I'm trying to improve myself on this particular point. I don't want a lot of guys, I just want to never let go the right one for this kind of girls ;-). In french (the very one language she's speaking), we call her "a michtoneuse".

Advertising can be so inspiring!!

It's impossible until it isn't!!

Philosophy for a living!

Hi hi!! From Perez Hilton.com 

This can't be real....

.... finding a place to live in Paris is really too difficult now. This ad CAN'T be real, i can't believe it!

Who's Next 2012

J-1

 Music by Neimo
Stylism by L'appart
Choregraphy by Virginie Cot

Jour J Backstage

....and on stage :-)) :

From Fashion Daily News: "En 15 tableaux et musique live, Who's Next - Prêt-à-Porter Paris a donné hiermatin, samedi 30 juin, le coup d'envoi de sa session estivale avec son défilé.Thématique retenue : le Moyen-Age.

Le décor est planté : une scène en bois rehaussée de mâts robustes et la fumée estlancée. Voici le défilé Who's Next saison printemps-été 2013 ! Pour cette édition, c'estle Moyen-Age qui est l'affiche. En 15 tableaux baptisés tour à tour Secte, Reine etVassaux, Fous de la reine, Armée de bois ou de fer, Danse médiévale... Une fois de plus, le salon a fait un show à sa sauce, c'est-à-dire pas un défilé classique mais unerecherche de style et un spectacle à part entière qui sont devenus la signaturevisuelle du salon.

Côté collections, la place a été donnée aux imprimés écossais, au pantalon chino, au beige, au blanc, au kaki, au noir. Exploitant des inspirations à la fois contemporaineset médiévales, les pièces piochées parmi les collections d'une quarantained'exposants ont été mises en scène pour présenter les silhouettes phares duprintemps-été 2013. Pour accessoiriser les silhouettes, le stylisme, réalisé parL'Appart PR, a retenu les plumes, les accessoires argentés façon cotte de maille, lesbranchages...

Les femmes ont la chevelure tressée, les hommes, eux, sont plutôt barbus. Lesambiances alternant entre verdure, mysticisme, champ de bataille... Tout cela grâce àun gigantesque écran vidéo de 18 mètres de long, réalisé par Los Patos, quisurplombe la scène. Le must : la musique jouée en live par le groupe Neïmo qui finitassurément de nous plonger dans l'ambiance.

Céline Vautard

Retrouvez le défilé Who's Next
tous les jours à 11h30 et 16h (sauf le mardi : 11h30 uniquement)
HALL 7.3, MR BROWN

Photo : Nicola Gleichhauf"

AND NOW, WHAT'S NEXT??

Can you believe it?

Well, you certainly can but I can't: I'm heading to the Who's Next 2012. I'll be part of the shows there as a dancer. Rehearsals are beginning on tuesday. 5 days of hard working, fashion, dance...... I'll do my best.

Staying alive, living again and again

This video gives me hope, joy and willing!! I'm trying to do my best dancing, improving my technics, growing better and better, sometimes I come out of faith but, even then , I have no choice: I need to go on working and dancing!

Call me maybe

Abercrombie's sales assistants (in uniform) doing a lipdub

Another kind of flashmob..... What a great idea! 

Arrêt maladie

J'ai besoin d'un arrêt maladie j'ai besoin d'un arrêt maladie j'ai besoin d'un arrêt maladie

...

Finally, it must be about my health. I'm sooo worried about that. I really need one!