Performances, Adjudicator, and the Rest

First of all, thank you, Faja with the help you gave for getting those scanned pages to me!!

After a long semester of many rehearsals and probably about a total hour's worth of choreography on my part. I'm done with performances.

The show was really great! There was good energy from everyone and I'm sure it was a delight to watch. Friday night the water piece I was in felt kind of rough, but it played into the piece quite a bit. The "Seven Minutes in Heaven" piece was a little too sassy/saucy on Friday night. It's hard to tell where to draw the line in performance. My piece went really well both nights! The audience reacted really well. Tonight the water piece was smoother, even bubbly. The "Seven Minutes in Heaven" piece was a lot more subtle. We were able to make the sauciness more of a secret that the audience would want, rather than blatant.

The adjudicator gave me the following feedback for my piece, this is obviously abbreviated:

The end of the piece- contrasting the rigidity of the line with the absurd and quirky movement was very effective. She wanted to see it develop more. She thought that the ending could have really "made" the whole piece. It reminded her of clowns and the circus. She was wondering about the intention of the dancers for everything. She felt like I could have created more of my own world with the movements.

Tomorrow I'll found out in the late afternoon whether my piece will be in Chelonia, which is the most legit dance performance our school has annually. My guess is no... but based on her feedback, it seems as if she really liked my piece. During first showings she originally said that she thinks that I have my own vocabulary and a very definite and different opinion of what movement is. Either way I think one of the other two piece I'm in, if not both, will be chosen. I already have new, little choreographic ideas brewing in my head. So excited for CinderElla, so excited to choreograph Pretty Theft, and so excited to choreograph for December dance workshop performances next year!!!

Now that its all said and done for this year, I'm studying my little heart out at 1am on a Sunday morning (saturday night?). There is no snow, and its almost christmas, I dreamed about Grandma's christmas morning monkey bread last night. Sad I don't get to see Omaha this year, but I'm so excited to see Matthew again in Montreal!!!