I walk into Joel Hall Dance Studio to find the desk unmanned. All varieties of Davids are missing from the front desk. I was running a little late because I was hauling around God's largest Honey Crisp apple for MDB. I see Lil Red in the fish bowl and wave. She sees me and waves back.
As I decide to head straight to class and settle up after, Rich spots me and gets me signed in. I walk into the back studio to find mostly second company and one regular. Insert deep sigh. I'm already wearing my fat pants with the belly cover that's almost to my armpits...
I walk behind the piano and begin pulling away street wear when I hear MDB walk in. She's talking to one lady that hasn't been in class for more than a year. The second company people have taken my favorite spot at the barre and then the 12 year girl from the Joel Hall's student company comes into class with pointe shoes. Insert my version of hell.
Side Bar: Maybe we should just hide behind this piano. I bet we could make it through class...
Menty: One Problem: EVERYONE ELSE has seen us come back here...
Side Bar: Oh.....yeah....
I give another deep sigh, gird my loins, slap a smile on my face and stand up. MDB spots me and in her sweet slightly southern voice says, "This is the first time you've been behind the piano." I distract her with the world's largest apple, which makes her smile and I find a spot somewhere in the back. (Who needs diamonds when large produce is more affordable?)
Lil Pointe girl asks if the apple is a pumpkin. I love other people's kids - they don't belong to you and you can always send them back when they stop being cute :)
We all manage to get through the plie and tendu combinations, but then MDB ups the ante on the second tendus. The combination involves a coupe with pas de bouree. We ALL screw this up and now I feel less self conscious. I blame it on the music....MDB agrees - and then makes us do it again.
The degage combination doesn't kill us. And I'm happy to report that I'm not the only person that gets confused with rond de jambes changing directions!!! Or maybe I was the only person and that was my correction - and thinking of Blondie - I started to say - She's not talking to me!! But of course she was. But then she gave us some golden nugget of information that will help me forever with this.
We manage not to break our feet in frappes that have petite battements with flexed and pointe foot and go into battements.
We changed rooms so we have a larger room. MDB gives a petit allegro first and then an adagio. The adagio was going well until she sped it up. Then I had a mental pause....a literal WHAT WAS I DOING MOMENT! Now I've done that in my house moving from room to room, but never while dancing! I've had a WHAT THE HELL COMES NEXT MOMENT....scary - very very scary. I decide not to worry about it just then because we are jumping. I must report all appendages stayed in their packages!!
MDB decides to give us a traveling combination that includes tombee, pas de bouree, glissade, jete (left and right), followed by tombee, pas de bouree, glissade assemblage (left and right) - Let's leave this at that.
MDB made us do it again, but paused to tell us that this was just stylized running. So when the last group was almost finished, I literally ran across the floor and clicked my heels together.
How's that for stylizing running? :)
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