Some relevant words from Miguel Gutierrez on the subject of touring: "i feel incredibly lucky to have had these experiences. touring makes you a better dancer, plain and simple. putting yourself in front of an audience that is not full of your best friends, your best friend's unwitting co-workers, ex-es, lovers, soon to be lovers, old dance school friends, relatives, and well, the other local dancers who are there to appreciate or secretly compare or disdain...

We are going to Dortmund today and will be there through saturday. I hope that Berute will give us a little break during these extra days, but I doubt it. She has taken to making major changes to the work an hour before we perform, and then giving us corrections as we put on our makeup. Yesterday she rechoreographed an entire section of the first piece, and we didn't even have time to do it once before we went on stage. Crazy!!! It has been a bit rough on me. V...