-dance journals-

-as of [31 JANUARY 2024]

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“31 AUGUST 1987” –>

(michael jackson ‘bad’ album)

(choreographing my own dance moves alone in the ‘family room’)

(‘age 6’)

(3 years after the album was released)

(with my ‘acrobat headband’ from the school play)

(what was the family reaction???)

(driving home from ‘marino’s pizzeria’)

(the ‘come here’ motion)

(a ‘race car metaphor?)

(to track #3 ‘speed demon’)

(‘paradise lost’ finger point on middle ‘shangri-la’ section)

(“keep a little in the middle…”)

(“free at last”)

time for din din / jafferian / dndingedin ger / pack rat…

now what to we do

“PARADISE LOST”

emerge from from the womb – drown in my suspicion

something i’d like to show you…

“JUNE 2016” –>

now i enjoy table dances + lap dances from strippers

and film myself dancing to my own recordings in my basement

(while the rest of the world lusts over 7-year-old females grinding to beyonce)

(just like ‘mean girls’ / aka tina fey / said would happen)

“SUMMER 2009” –>

arab bellydancers

(shore restaurant with the higgins)

(padua + nora)
(@ east village hookah bars)

“school dances”

“pop warner dances”

“middle school line dancing”

(led by our gay gym teacher “mister murphy”)

“the macarena”

(‘easily digestible’ sequence of motions for middle-aged parents to embarrass themselves to)

(and me in the process)

(even worse than the ‘chicken dance’)

(i HATED that fucking song and dance!)

eighth grade:

danced with blair ritchie to ‘put on a happy face’

corinne melville

TAPS concert

emily as former dancer

(never shone)

eighth grade:

danced with blair ritchie to ‘put on a happy face’

corinne melville

TAPS concert

emily as former dancer

(never shone)

arab bellydancers

(shore restaurant with the higgins)

(padua + nora)

now i enjoy table dances + lap dances from strippers

and film myself dancing to my own recordings in my basement

(while the rest of the world lusts over 7-year-old females grinding to beyonce)

(just like ‘mean girls’ / aka tina fey / said would happen)

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*👨‍🔬🕵️‍♀️🙇‍♀️*SKETCHES*🙇‍♂️👩‍🔬🕵️‍♂️*

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👈👈👈☜*-DANCE-* ☞ 👉👉👉

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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥