Get to the Pointe

"There's a pole. There's a POLE! I know where we're going with this!" The title pretty much says it all.  This week, Josephine reacted to *beautiful* dancer Elena Gibson. According to her Wikipedia page, Gibson trained in classical ballet at Canada's National Ballet School as a young dancer. She danced professionally with the National Ballet of Canada & Bavarian State Ballet in Germany as well. In 2000, Gibson suffered injury in a car accident, forcing her to retire from her professional ballet career. This sparked the beginnings of her fusion of ballet, gymnastics and acrobatic with pole dancing. By 2005,...

A long awaited requested video! This week, Josephine reacted to Anna McNulty's "Learning a NEW SKILL EVERYDAY with No Experience!" - just the pointe shoe portion at the very end. Although Josephine didn't know who Anna was, it was pretty clear from the get-go that Anna did have some experience. McNulty is a self-proclaimed contortionist, who has gymnastic and dance background from her childhood.  So although wild, Josephine's anxiety did not peak that much when Anna sets the goal of doing a needle en pointe. As always, the huge disclaimer: do not try this at home. Do not go en pointe without...

"are we cups people now" On this episode of 'traumatizing-josephine-with-the-ballet-internet,' we revisited the land of Instagram Reels! We don't wanna spoil the surprise. Just know there's some Barbie, some cups, some amazing things, and cute things. Ya know, just the usual ballet internet chaos that we love. What will Josephine make of it this time? Watch to find out!

Grab your tissues, everybody. This week Josephine reacted to Eugene Lee Yang's coming out video, simply titled "I'm Gay." Released on YouTube in 2019, this dance shot film tells Eugene's story. Born and raised in a conservative, Catholic town in Texas, he struggled through his adolescence with his sexuality, but also his Asian identity. The video shows the conflict he faced as an adult, and where he stands now. Needless to say, Josephine picked up a lot of what Eugene was putting down. As a fellow Korean, there were many moments of empathy. Like this video, we are also fundraising...

June is Pride Month, so we started the celebration strong with having Josephine react to Lady Camden! In case you don't know, Lady Camden was the runner-up on season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race. She's British, fabulous & walked away with a $50,000 cash prize.  Rex Wheeler was born in Camden Town, London, England. He trained with Royal Ballet, then danced for the Slovak National Ballet. In the states, Wheeler moved to San Francisco. She also danced for Smuin Ballet. This video that Josephine reacts to is from the channel Nowness, episode 12 of their 'Just Dance' series. The short film...