A handful of friends and relations have asked about my upcoming dance performance. If you care, here’s the info:
The show runs May 29th through May 31st. You’ll find me in Cast II, which performs Saturday the 30th at 7:00 pm and on Sunday the 31st on 2:00 pm at the Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis. There are more details on the PTDW studio webpage. I’m not sure what ticket costs are. My guess is they’re somewhere around $8 or $10. It’s a full studio concert so be prepared for everything from four-year old dancing flowers to 40-year olds in tutus. I’m in two ballet pieces this year: one classical and one that’s more...um...contemporary.
So now you know. I think it’s going to be a good show. Everything I’ve seen so far has been pretty interesting and I’m fond of both of the pieces I’m in. One week out from dress rehearsal and I feel like I’ve got a fairly good grip on where I am and what I’m doing, and I have a short but distinguished list of stuff I want to do better by the time my feet hit the stage. That’s about where I should be at this juncture (in the comfort zone between so-confident-that-I’m-bound-to-screw-everything-up and so-nervous-that-I’m-going-to-barf-in-my-pointe-shoes). I was lucky enough to have both of my pieces land in the same cast and I’m thrilled enough to do cartwheels over that one. Or I would be if I wasn’t so bloody sore.
I’m still wiring together headpieces, and costumes are slowly but surely coming together after four or five returns and rejections. For the Sweet Dreams piece, I was given leave to wear my own hair – don’t ask – which is a plus.
We’re stitching and tweaking and trying to line up heads and bodies. Next week we’ll all be clinging to each other, forgetting most the nuances, and just trying to get through it alive. And the following week it will be back to business as usual at the studio and a new cycle of choreography begins again. This part is sort of like the long climb at the start of the roller coaster ride.
Here we go.
Alright. Wish me luck.