Ballet for Beginners; First Period [04/12].

[died8yearsago]

It was the end of a long week, with a class that required a great deal of attention to bodies in tight clothes, and there was a big stupid school dance that night. Surely, if there was any time for Rosa to go easy on her class, it would be on a week like this, right?

Spoiler alert: your teacher was actually a villain.

"Go ahead and get stretching," Rosa started right away, "I'll talk as you do and then we'll get to the barre work. Today, we're covering pas de deux, which means dance for two. Which in other kinds of dance might mean a tango or a waltz or something, but, in ballet, it usually means there a female ballerina dancing around a male who's pretty much there as a prop or as support. And a lot of more modern production are working to subvert some of that, but, since we're focusing on traditional ballet in the class, that's pretty much what we're doing today. The numbers are a little disproportionate so you'll be taking turns. Guys, you might want to make sure you strech your arms and shoulders a little extra today."

Practical Diplomacy, Friday, April 12, 2019

[sith_happened]

"It's Prom and it's that week and so you're probably not paying attention to one word in ten that I'm saying," Anakin began, looking a little annoyed. (Which, honestly, was how he looked most of the time anyway.) "But a lot of diplomacy is pretending to be engaged and interested, even when you aren't. So today, I am putting on an important presentation and will be quizzing you at the end of it for how much your retained."

He pressed play on the presentation.

Welcome to "Your Changing Body," the intergalactic version, covering a variety of species. You're certainly gonna learn something!

Not just that Anakin is mean.