Drills, Drills, Drills

Vanessa Blakeslee
7 min readFeb 7, 2020

On the 10,000 hours of practice to mastery

Vanessa Blakeslee

I don’t think I can push out my hip any farther.

My hip is stretched to the limit, pointed at a diagonal toward the back corner of the studio. It’s Sunday, and our Master-level Bellydance class is practicing a series of drills designed to increase flexibility and improve technique in our maya and snake hip movements. Maya, the…

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).