Competition practice

This week at competition, our teacher Sabrina was a little late, so we practiced the ballet piece Angels and Demons for an hour to really perfect it since the timing has been a little off. Then we went upstairs and practiced Schindler's List once and then worked for about an hour and a half, and added new steps to it which is hip hop which is definiely not my forte, I'm not a hip-hop dancer and I was having trouble with the steps. And then practice was cut short for a holidat party!!!

Greek club- holiday party

Greek club this week was basically a look back over verb conjugation and then a holiday party.

SOI meeting

The SOI meeting this week was very short, the last one before the holidays, basically it was just a reminder from Jade to finish the posters that she wanted to get done. After the meeting Emily Field and I went to the computer lab to find a template and some info on environmental reasons to go organic. We finished in that time and sent it to Jade.

Wednesday night contemporary

So finally more contemporary classes, they're my favorite, so I was really missing them. Again it was a really small class, people must have thought since it's near the holidays that there would be no class. So since there was so few of us, we spent most of the class on the new dance that will be in the spring show. I love it, it's going to be so pretty, the music is to Starlight, by Muse. And the concept is that we're all stars, colliding with each other in the sky.

Tuesday night regular ballet

On Tuesday night ballet, since the Nutcracker is over, we just had a regular ballet class which we haven't had in at least a month. It was only about 5 or 6 of us, and we had our pointe shoes on the entire time, but my pointe shoes are so dead and my feet are so used to them that my feet didn't hurt at all. But I still need to work on my pirouettes, because I tend to not move my head. And then after class we started to practice our jazz dance Fame again, and we all sort of had to relearn it since we haven't practiced it in a long time.

SOI

We had a pretty short meeting this week at SOI, we mainly discussed the posters that we're promoting. I am working with Emily Field on a template for environmental reasons to go organic and it needs to be sent to Jade by Thursday.

Nutcracker week

This whole week was Nutcracker rehearsel at the Cape Cod Community College starting Monday afternoon. On Monday we practiced the party scene where I'm one of two Masqueraders, and so I was there for a few hours. Then on Wednesday we had to practice the Snow scene and all of Act 2 where I'm a flower. Wednesday was a very long day, we had to practice since 4:00 pm, and for the first time we practiced Snow on a sleigh where I'm supposed to come out standing and then get off the sleigh on pointe. So I was having a lot of trouble with that on Wednesday, and then we practiced Flower later which still needed a lot of work. Then Thursday and Friday were dress rehearsels and I was still having trouble with the sleigh those days since the girls pushing me out weren't going out on time or fast enough so I was really worried about that. But on the night of the first show everything went really well, I was in my element, and everyone was glowing.

Greek club- translating

On Thursday after school Greek club we started working on translating from Athenaze, and it feels weird because there are other kids who already know some basic words and I don't know anything, so I'm kind of behind. Mr. Arcenas was working with us on pronounciation, we each had to say a sentence and then try to translate it.

Thursday ballet- more Nutcracker rehearsel

On Thursday night instead of regular class with Miss Francesca, we had barre with Francesca for 20 minutes and then went straight into Nutcracker rehearsel. We practiced Flower first since that absolutely needs more work for about an hour. Then we practiced Snow for an hour. I don't think I've ever had my feet hurt that much, all of us were in so much pain. But we knew that we all had to keep our pointe shoes on since next week it'll be even worse with Sabrina.

Wednesday night contemporary- new choreography

Before class Miss Jen and I worked on my solo for competition since there's not that much time to work on it otherwise. We have about 40 seconds into the song, and Jen is making the choreography really difficult. On Wednesday we did our usual warm ups like plies, tendus, degages, leg swings, arm swings. We also worked on axles across the floor, which is one of my favorites. And Jen started to teach some new choreography which is much slower than the choreography she was teaching last time.

Nutcracker rehearsel- Tuesday

On Tuesday night ballet we practiced Nutcracker for two and a half hours, which was incredibly tiring and painful since we were all forced to keep our pointe shoes on, but the dances are looking a lot better. Sabrina wasn't feeling well and only came halfway through rehearsel. We finally finished the Waltz of the Flowers and it still needs the most work.