Bailey Vincent

Hello forum friends.

Well, I have some pretty major news. I am going to be taking a brief winter hiatus from the forum… and I’m going to miss you all so much.

The good news is that it’s a positive hiatus (is there such a thing?) as my girls and I will be traveling for a professional dance gig for a temporary contract (you can see more about…[Read more]

I am getting my booster/third shot tomorrow, as well as my flu shot, right before I head off to dance for a few hours, and then have dance again the next day.

I work everyday this week and it only gets worse from there (stage week is less than two weeks away), so I don’t really have a “down day”, unfortunately, to make room for resting if I have…[Read more]

I am on a nostalgia kick. 

I know I’m not alone. Lately it seems like, everywhere I look is another 90’s reboot, or a media wink-and-a-smile to a previous decade (that reference was a Harry Connick nod, just FYI), and on and on. And as cliche as it makes me: I LOVE it.

Leaning in to things that once felt new and now feel reassuring…[Read more]

I have spent most of the pandemic rolling my eyes at anyone who complained too heavily about masks because ‘we with CF’ have had to wear in hospital more times than we could ever count. Surgeons wear them. I wear them at dance and move at really high-speed levels. And so on.

But last night, while running an entire show with my company (where some…[Read more]

Hello forum friends! I have been off the forum for a few days, but I am still alive (hello, hi), and wanted to see how everyone has been feeling and doing.

I have had a rough medical week to say the least, so let’s talk happy and silly instead.

What are three interesting or fun things that have happened to you this week? 

Recently, our forum friend Jenny said the following: “I’ve experienced some pretty significant changes to my body in the last few years, but I held onto old clothes thinking “someday, they’ll fit again.” Finally coming to peace with the idea that realistically, they’ll probably never fit again and it’s okay to let them go was very liberating.…[Read more]

My “day off” yesterday ended up being the day where everything I couldn’t get done on the days “on” got piled on. It hurts a lot currently to write for long periods of time (it’s sort of silly how I can dance here and there post surgery, yet typing on a laptop is what makes me miserable?), but I had no other choice because it had to get done. It…[Read more]

I am one day away from finishing a 7 day marathon of dance. I have had to teach, choreograph or direct dance every single day for a week… and tomorrow is my first “day off”. I honestly can’t believe I pulled it off less than a month after the last major surgery, and couldn’t help but post about it because… Wow, I did it!

So, today’s question…[Read more]

What a week. Pain. Work. Work. Pain. So busy… but also always a little bit happy to be busy, I think. Despite this, we are working through some heavy topics in dance rehearsal last night. 

One of the lead characters thinks that the love of her life has been killed, and so she has a slow slow slow denial-level reckoning ‘on stage’, much…[Read more]

Yesterday was a stressful parenting day. Like…. really awful. It ended up consuming my whole morning when I had a lot of work to get done, and even worse: it just made me really tired and sad. Everything that’s going on is “normal” (teenage stuff), but man… it’s exhausting to balance all of it sometimes. The nearly full time work with…[Read more]