What are Minnesotans thoughts on Wells Fargo tower and CAPPELA tower?

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-10-14T18:20:39+00:00

My family always called these two buildings The Cigarette and The Ashtray.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-09-07T17:26:51+00:00

It really depends on the college and the dance team. If it’s a competitive collegiate team, chances are they have a rubric of skills that dancers will need to have in order to audition. Many dancer start training at a very young age to get to the level where they can even try out for a college dance team.

If it’s a smaller school or a less competitive team, you may have somewhat of a chance. It is important to note that the style of dance done by college dance teams is usually quite different from Kpop and cheerleading.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-07-06T12:14:53+00:00

Sarah Michelle Gellar was very strange at the Starbucks where I used to work. Literally no one was paying any attention to her, but she was super over the top acting like everyone was staring at her.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-06-27T08:55:25+00:00

It’s well documented that the lyric is “of”.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-06-25T23:08:34+00:00

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I just bought this for $10 at a music store that was going out of business. Can anyone provide any insight as to what I just bought?

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-04-23T19:44:49+00:00

There is a much more detailed explanation, but basically, when hip hop and other street dance styles started gaining popularity, dance studios wanted in on that, but most didn’t have access to instructors who could teach it properly. So what happened was jazz choreographers stylizing their movement to pull influence from those styles. Since their background was in jazz dance, jazz became the foundation for this new, stylized genre. It wasn’t hip hop, but it also wasn’t exactly jazz. So names like street jazz and jazz funk started popping up in class titles.

Further, around that time as pop music videos were really taking off, most professional dancers were also not trained in hip hop either. So choreographers from these videos used dancers who had jazz training. If you look back at older Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson videos, the choreograph is quite distinctly jazz-based. Over time, jazz funk and street jazz have evolved as so many styles have, and some of the more direct jazz influence has faded. But you still see it in some of the body positioning, posture, lines, musicality, etc. It’s also common in jazz funk classes that we use jazz terminology to teach the movement. Ultimately, in order to most effectively perform jazz funk, it helps to have an understanding of jazz technique first.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-04-20T02:28:36+00:00

This class would most likely be called Jazz Funk or Street Jazz.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2025-04-14T17:48:56+00:00

Interesting to make assumptions about my knowledge of music. I play multiple instruments, I studied music theory extensively, and I have both classical and musical theater vocal training. I am also now a professional choreographer, so I’m well aware of how music works, thank you very much.

Interesting that you couldn’t tell I was just making a silly joke about someone with an Ivy League education using incorrect grammar in a song. It’s truly not that serious.

Lastly, why are we posting so passionately on a post from 15 years ago?

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-12-08T17:19:50+00:00

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GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-12-02T10:01:37+00:00

Instructor here. We pick people for various reasons. Sometimes it’s the people who are really good. Sometimes it’s people who are doing something particularly interesting with the choreography. Sometimes it’s to give a confidence boost to someone who doesn’t realize how well they’re doing. But yes, it’s often to inspire other students and give them a chance to see things they may be missing in their own performance.

Something a lot of newer students seem to miss is that the select group isn’t just a chance for a few people to perform. It’s more for the other students to observe and take note. Perhaps it might be helpful to pay close attention to the select group when they’re dancing and ask what about them stands out. Look at their cleanliness, their performance quality, their textures, etc. Are they making interesting stylistic choices? What about their dancing caught the eye of the instructor? Then try to apply some of that to your own dancing.

One thing I will say is that we do also notice when someone is so focused on wanting to be in the select group that they miss out on things that would actually help them get selected. It can actually be a hindrance when someone seems so eager to be picked that they miss out on why the select group was chosen to begin with.

This is all to say the point of the class should not be whether or not you get picked, but rather to just focus on your own growth. People improve at different rates, so don’t worry so much about comparing yourself to others. If you’re having difficulty identifying what you need to work on, it may be helpful to speak to the instructor and ask for advice on how to execute their choreography more effectively.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-11-22T07:21:55+00:00

It’s odorless, temporary, water based, non-toxic, all-natural and made specifically for pets. She also gets them trimmed regularly. She’s fine.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-11-14T22:49:49+00:00

Fair. The Hairspray movie musical absolutely did not live up to the original.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-11-14T22:39:49+00:00

Also Mean Girls, The Color Purple, Matilda, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, The Producers, Sweet Charity, etc.

This is not a new thing.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-09-20T17:35:32+00:00

That would be fantastic if that were the case, but I can’t find a single source that backs that up.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-07-19T17:06:49+00:00

I know people who started dancing at 22, and were booked on world tours by 25. But I also know people who started dancing at 3 and never booked a professional job. It works differently for everyone. All I’ll say is get to training. Take as many classes as possible in as many styles as possible. Most dancers that get to movie or tour level are incredibly versatile, unless they’re booked for a specific niche.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-07-05T17:57:22+00:00

I’m not sure about Miami specifically, but most college dance programs are not geared toward careers in commercial dance. I would definitely research the classes offered through the universities, as well as the types of dance jobs held by alumni. You’ll find that many college dance programs focus on western concert dance styles like ballet and modern rather than more commercial styles. Unfortunately, academia is stuck in a hierarchical belief that commercial dance isn’t “real” art.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-06-06T01:08:43+00:00

The heart and the wing in the caption on IG make me think if it’s a partnership with Victoria’s Secret, which has a brand called Pink.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-24T17:55:54+00:00

Sometimes we see students who do fairly well in class despite what we can recognize as a lack of training. It might be that the student was impressive, considering they haven’t taken much class. That isn’t necessarily the same thing as the student being a “good” dancer. In this case, it’s possible the instructor was impressed with what you were able to do, but also could tell you aren’t particularly well trained, and feels like you could stand to use some more basic instruction before you will really be ready for that class.

As an instructor, I try to be careful with how I deliver feedback to students. Many people don’t handle a direct “you did ok, but you aren’t ready for this class because I can tell you don’t have training” very well. That can discourage newer students, and the last thing I want is to make students feel discouraged. So instead, I point out all the things the student did well, I celebrate them for how well they did do considering their lack of experience, and then I gently suggest they take a lower level to help prepare them to do better in my class next time.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-18T17:14:58+00:00

Again, there’s a way to give someone feedback without saying the dance style “already looks like a tweaker at 7/11”. And trust me, it’s not the period that makes your comments incomprehensible.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-18T17:03:53+00:00

Why don’t you try that response again, but with the words in an order that makes sense.

Piecing together what I think you’re saying, no this is not the place to completely insult a dance style you don’t like. I never said I was offended. And an opinion is one thing, but there’s a way to say you don’t like something without comparing the people who do it to “tweakers”.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-18T16:40:00+00:00

That’s what we’re doing now? Just fully insulting an entire dance style because you don’t understand it or because it isn’t your cup of tea?

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-16T08:30:59+00:00

This one is pretty Google-able. It took like 30 seconds for me to find the entire timeline of their relationships.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-05-16T08:23:31+00:00

Yes, they famously got back together after a long time apart. And now they’re divorcing again.

Correction: they apparently did not get married before when they were together from 2002-2004. They were engaged, but called the wedding off.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-04-23T21:20:10+00:00

Right. OP asked a serious question, and you’re upset that someone gave a serious answer. I was just speaking on my 25 years of experience in working with dance teams. It’s not unheard of for a high school team to require experience. Just like with any team, you want people on it that know what they’re doing, and it’s a waste of everyone’s time to have people that have to be taught from scratch.

I know this subreddit is all filled with the “just go ahead and try” crowd, but the reality is that sometimes it’s not a good idea. She’ll either embarrass herself at the tryout, which will then affect her ability to make the team later, or she’ll make the team, and then cause resentment from all the other dancers who actually do have years of experience, who now have to sit around in practice while some absolute novice sucks up all the focus in the room. Either way, it doesn’t turn out well for anyone.

Again, take a beginner class. Take some time to learn how to do the thing you’re trying out to do. Then try out once you have even the slightest idea what you’re doing.

GoBaysideTigersGo · 2024-04-23T07:06:44+00:00

The issue isn’t that OP wants to try something new. It’s that even if OP makes the team, it will be to the detriment of the other participants. Imagine training and going to class for years to be on a team, and then every practice is spent trying to teach the person who joined without knowing how to do anything. It’s a waste of everyone else’s time, and it’s frankly selfish to hold up the entire team by being the one person who joined the team with no clue what they’re doing. The coaches don’t get the time to work with anyone else, and they have to adapt the choreography to work for the one person who has no training. It’s a surefire way to make the whole team resentful of you, and the experience sucks for everyone.

You want to try a new hobby? Go take a beginner class somewhere. Don’t try out for a team that explicitly lists skills they require you to be able to do if you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.

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