{"id":8921,"date":"2009-02-01T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T16:40:04","slug":"the-alvin-ailey-flat-back-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"The Alvin Ailey flat-back series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture of my dear friend Shelagh and myself, before dance class at the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvinailey.org\/\">Alvin Ailey dance studio<\/a>.  We took classes in the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvinailey.org\/page.php?p=tech_d&#038;sec=aileyextension&#038;v=14\">Horton technique<\/a> &#8211; which involves the &#8220;flat-back series&#8221;, great for balance and also your abs and thighs &#8211; lots of squats and lunges &#8211; all with your back flat as a board &#8230; but it sure makes you look ridiculous.  We would watch the real dancers &#8211; the real Alvin Ailey dancers &#8211; taking classes and we would watch them do the same flat-back series and think, &#8220;God, it looks so elegant when they do it.  We look like crouching Hobbits hidden midgets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/3244762316_23f93c2a3f_c-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture of my dear friend Shelagh and myself, before dance class at the great Alvin Ailey dance studio. We took classes in the famous Horton technique &#8211; which involves the &#8220;flat-back series&#8221;, great for balance and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183377,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/183377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}