Dead pointes from St Lucy’s
Nutcracker performances
The photo: Some of the dead
pointe shoes from performances of St. Lucy’s version of The Nutcracker. A pair
of Bea’s Freeds are somewhere in the photo. Bea was Dew Drop this year a role I
thought she excelled at, but I had coached her thoroughly. The only two adult
males were dancers from my troupe who danced the Snow King and Sugarplum fairy’s
Cavalier. It appeared to be a straight G-rated version as parents and the
public were in attendance and was very well received.
Pelvic training equipment: However,
all the girls in the corps who had reached menarche were wearing their Semina (coil
spring) diaphragms whether they were menstrual or not. Returning readers will
remember that Semina is the one with the lovely transparent pink silicone dome.
It was a festive touch for the season! The Principals and soloists, all with
deep post-pubic vaults, wore Labia Labs version of the Oves cervical cap and
sets of one inch solid Pyrex Ben Wa balls. I had wanted to have them try
performing with balls inserted and this was the first opportunity to have them actually
do it.
Vaginal training: In addition to
the normal ballet rehearsals for the Principals, Soloists and Corps I held
closed pelvic rehearsals for the Principals and Soloists where the girls and I wore
crotchless tights, our one inch Pyrex balls and no panties so if we expelled a
ball while landing a jump, pirouette or during a développé everyone would know
it. I went crotchless with my students so they would feel more at ease displaying
their pubes in a professional setting and by dancing the pas de deux with the
guys and landing the jumps, performing the pirouettes, fouettés and développés
w/o dropping a ball to show them I could do what I was asking them to do.
The girls all had sex with my two male dancers during their Contemporary
Sexual Health class labs so it wasn’t as though their partners hadn’t seen
their vulvae before, so their anxiety was quickly over as everyone acted in a
very professional manner, the guys didn’t sprout woodies in their dance belts
and no one stared at their bare pubes - since it was well understood that the
girls needed to become confident that they could perform with their one inch
balls inserted w/o an accident. I was certain they could as it takes a lot of
force to expel a one inch (.65 oz.) glass ball out of the deep post-vaginal vault
of a well toned vagina.
To build stamina we went over the several pas de deux and
solos repeatedly. After the girls, all of whom had fully waxed pubes, got over
the fact that they were working w/o a net during rehearsals they really
tightened up and after the first run through during the first rehearsal they
became much more confident and none dropped any balls. I was so proud of them! For the performances they did wear tight fitting
mesh thongs, invisible under tights and tutus, to catch an expelled ball to
prevent it dropping down the leg inside her tights and ruining the line of the
leg, but that proved to have been unnecessary. I was so pleased that none of my
Ben Wa girls expelled a ball or balls during their performances!
First Response hCG testing: Willow
took her first hCG test today and it showed negative. Of course it did, she is
menstrual and bleeding heavily, but the regimen called for her testing today. Returning
readers will remember she is Mitch’s primary training partner while we see if
he can impregnate women using copper IUDs.
I think she is perfectly safe. She is using the FIRST RESPONSE Early
Result Pregnancy Test that shows hCG as early as six days prior to the start of
the woman’s period. Pirate is paying for her tests which are about $13 on-line,
but since we buy in bulk for our escorts a two-pack is about $10 USD.
I’m taking pelvic training with Mitch frequently myself and,
as returning readers may recall, I use an Oves cervical cap screwed down tight
on my cervix, (when I’m not menstrual) so statistically I should be at a higher
risk than women on hormones who are using their method correctly. I’m testing
with Willow just to give her support and I don’t expect either of us to test
positive, but we need to see if we can support Mitch and show he isn’t dangerous
to women using Copper IUDs or cervical barriers when used correctly.
Cycles for the winter solstice:
As this is being written (Sunday 12-15-2013) I’m CD1 and flowing lightly. I have
a Milex Omniflex (silicone coil spring wide seal diaphragm) inserted for flow
control. I should be in full flow tomorrow and have my heavy days on Tues. –
Wed. My Wards (Odette, Odile, and Bea)
are now in synchrony with me. Willow got her GyneFix about three and a half
weeks ago and she is menstrual now. This is her first period with a GyneFix
implanted so it has been a heavy one, but not something she couldn’t handle
with Ibuprofen and an iron rich diet.
So we will be CD7 +/- 2 on December 21st, the
winter solstice, which means Willow certainly and some of the rest of us may be
fertile during our celebrations as Druid Priestesses ritually offering our
bodies and initiating new young male candidates in to the small community of
believers in the old ways. All in my circle have copper GyneFix IUDs implanted
and the men will have all been screened for STIs so we should all be as safe as
possible as far as our contraception and sexual health is concerned. However, pneumonia
from the weather is a distinct possibility.
Chris, our male Gyn who travels with us, has gone on ahead taking
equipment we might need and to work with the local medical practitioner to
scout and screen suitable candidates for initiation into the mysteries of the
old ways. There was some talk during our Thanksgiving dinner about the
possibility of a blood sacrifice to the goddess in addition to the ritual ones with
genital fluids that I and my junior Priestesses will perform, but I’m not sure
where that aspect of the ceremony stands. The winter solstice celebrates death and the
renewal of life so it seems appropriate that there should be death – in
addition to the ‘little death’ (orgasm) that typically is the climax of the
ceremony - associated with celebration of the winter solstice.
Inverness airport (IATA code: INV) Dalcross
Scotland: Dalcross is much closer to Ullapool so we will be flying
into Dalcross airport which is some six miles east down the coast from
Inverness. The main runway at 6,190 feet is long enough to take a G650 at MTOW,
maximum takeoff weight.
It’s about 56 miles up the A835 between Inverness and
Ullapool then another few miles into the mountains to His Graces hunting lodge
so it should take about one and a half to two hours depending on the weather. Jack
will have a small fleet of Range Rovers meet us at the private air terminal.
Planned departure: We plan to
leave at 1:00 AM on Tuesday the seventeenth which should give us three days to
adjust to the eight hour time difference before the celebration on the
twenty-first. The pilots want to top off our tanks at Dulles even though we
have the range to fly non-stop. That way they say if there is a reroute or some
in-flight delay we will have plenty of fuel. That also gives me an opportunity
to drop off a very high priority item for the government that will be given to
me at McCarran just before departure.
Weather forecast for Tues. 12/17 arrival:
- The Met forecast for Inverness for Tuesday 12/17 is intervals of sunshine temperatures in the high 30s and a southwesterly wind at 12 mph.
- The Met forecast for Ullapool for Tuesday 12/17 is for light rain temperature in the low 40s F and an 18 mph southerly wind.
The Met forecast for Ullapool for the
winter solstice:
Light clouds with temperature 41 – 48.2 F at sea level with a
24 mph south westerly wind. Sunrise 09:04 Sunset 15:33. So at best (assuming
10° colder on site) it will be about at freezing with a strong wind off the
ocean. With sunrise at 9:04 at least we won’t have to get up before 5:00 AM
unless the weather turns really bad, or Himself decides otherwise.
Just wondering: how long does a pair of pointes usually last a dancer?
ReplyDeleteJohn
Hi John, it depends on the Maker, style, roles danced and how the dancer breaks in her shoes. Freed Classics are performance shoes made of traditional materials: paste, paper hessian (burlap), paste and leather and they are wonderful to dance in but last a very short time. On the other hand, Gaynor Minden pointes made with polymer boxes and shanks and foam padding can last a week or more of performances and take no breaking in which is where a lot of the life of shoes made of traditional materials is lost.
DeleteWorst case a pair may last less than a single ballet. Best case, several weeks. Pointes no longer suitable for performances are usually worn for class and rehearsals.