Tuesday ballet- rehearsing for Paquita piece

This Tuesday night Sabrina was not there so Miss Sarah taught our class, we had a relatively short barre on pointe and then kept our pointe shoes on to go right into our Spring gala dance: Paquita. I had missed last week's class because it was my birthday and I realized last night just how much new choreography I had missed. At first everyone was trying to teach me everything all at once and it was chaos. So I watched them do it once without me and then joined in the second time. I did miss a lot of choreography but I was able to catch up.

Thursday night ballet and Friday competition

So on Thursday night we wore all pointe shoes all class like we usually do with Francesca and started to learn the slow adagio dance to Paquita, we start out in two groups and make a circle, it's very painstakingly slow. And Francesca wants us all to do a double pirouette on pointe and turns aren't exactly my strongest point and she wants me to do one on my bad side too. So I need to achieve a double pirouette on my bad side, (my left) in a month somehow.

On Friday Sabrina was not there so I was put in charge of the little girls downstairs while Jen the other teacher had a class upstairs. Everyone was late so we only had time to stretch and work on one of the little girls' dances. We had competition at Providence a little over a week ago and it went pretty well but we all think that we could have done much better. Sabrina is fixing a few of the dances to add some turns and more diversity so that we can score more points. And also Lorissa and I are really going to work hard on our duet, we want to especially score high on that, so we're going to the studio whenever we can and Jen is changing some of the choreography.

Wednesday contemporary

This week at contemporary again not a lot of people were there for us to really work on choreography which is incredibly frustrating. But my old friend Katie who danced there last year came to class since she has Spring break and we were able to do some exercises that we haven't done in awhile like our plies, tendus, leg swings, arm swings and abs! I don't really love the abs but it's good for my body to get used to them again.

Tuesday night ballet- new choreography for Spring Gala

So last Tuesday night we started learning new choreography for our Spring Gala, Sabrina is teaching us a fast dance on Tuesday nights and Francesca is teaching us an adagio which is just a slower dance on Thursday nights. The music is from Paquita and it's really pretty, I'm already loving the choreography. Sabrina's choreography especially is really interesting, but my feet were especially hurting that night. I think it's just because I need my feet to get stronger again.

Short SOI meeting.

This week at SOI was a very short meeting, but more people are finally beginning to show up again. We're done with the movie and had a bake sale Friday at break, I wasn't able to come to school on Friday, otherwise I would have definitely made something or sold. We also discussed the overdue food festival and Jade mentioned that it be just for seniors. And I think that this would be amazing since it would be right after IB exams, the stress is lifted and we could just relax. The problem would be how to fund it right now.

Competition practice Friday

On Friday, as usual I had competition team practice 4-7. Since the first competition is a week away, we did a dress rehearsel, costumes for most of the pieces. for Angels and Demons I need to tack on a pair of wings to the back of my costume, and we'll all wear a halo. And I also wore my solo costume, it's really pretty and dark blue. And my friend Lorissa and I wore our duet costumes, we also bought together the shoes and tights that we need for that piece. I think we're all really ready for competition.

Thursday ballet- Francesca again

This Thursday I learned that Miss Francesca was back, she's pregnant and decided not to teach for a little while, but now she's feeling better to teach our class. I didn't really like her teaching style in the beginning of the year, but now I'm starting to really appreciate how much she concentrates on technique and really pushes you as a dancer. So I look more forward to her class now. I wore pointe shoes the entire class, which was really good for my feet to get back into. And later in class she had us jump over a stick she was holding up in the air that we had to go over and she is going to do that from now on.

Wednesday contemporary

So on Wednesday, the weather was really horrible and there was only about six of us in class, so everyone needs to really start coming so that we all learn the choreography and move on much more quickly. But we learned about a third of the dance for "Sweet Disposition", it might be my favorite, choreography wise. And now we're about three quarters through the "Starlight dance", which is really exciting, now we can work more on technique. Both dances are going to be really great.

Tuesday night ballet

This Tuesday Miss Sarah taught class since Sabrina was sick. But it was a really nice class, I wore my pointe shoes at barre, I felt like my feet were really strong last summer and this winter, but for the last month we haven't worn our shoes as much what with breaks and everything, so I think we've become a little bit lazy and a goal right now is to get out of this lazy spell.

SOI meeting

Last Wednesday, we finished Food Inc, we only had about 10 minutes left of the movie. Then after we talked about having our bakesales again, I volonteered to bake something, I'm just not sure what to make yet, maybe muffins or something. I am wondering when we'll have our big food festival, maybe that will only happen at the end of the year.