Friday, October 9, 2009

Ballet class, 2nd Nutcracker rehearsel, long night

Tuesday night was abnormally long and tiring. Ballet class was an hour and a half, we had barre for a short time worked in center for 15 minutes and went straight to Nutcracker rehearsel, for the rest of class. We wore our pointe shoes for barre and center, but Sabrina let us take our pointe shoes off for the rest of class. and we practiced the snow scene a lot, so I was really happy to take my pointe shoes off. I'm Snow Queen, which means that I have little solos inbetween the dance, Snow Queen is kind of like the leader in the snow land. And Sabrina complimented me for when I danced, so I was really happy. But I've been watching this dance for ten years so it wasn't really difficult for me to understand.
And then after ballet, the competition team practiced the Fame dance, and we wore our ballet shoes. However Sabrina added new choreography and it just so happens to be the fastest dance ever, so we were basically out of breath and about to faint. However in the real dance world like Sabrina was reminding us, choreographers and teachers don't give you a lot of breaks, you just have to learn how to cope with dancing for long periods of time, breathing, inhaling and exhaling while you dance. And choreographers don't really give you a lot of time to learn a dance.
And then after jazz, the competition team for a half hour practiced our ballet piece. And by that point we were all exhausted, and couldn't really give our best efforts.

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