Monday with Laurie

On Monday in Laurie's class, we cleaned up the ballet piece. It is expected to be quick but elegant, not frantic. The part that needed the most work was the part that we added last week.
In the diagonal line after I have my little solo/duo with Zaynah, we take 4 walks and do ballotté ballotté step ballonné. We then run to 2 vertical lines and lean sous-sou and lean to the same side facing backwards. Then we form a circle by going step, sauter in arabesque, glissade, little split jete. Around the circle we do pas de basque, step, step, sauter twice. Then Ashlei and Zaynah go towards the center of the circle with step, sauter, step, coupe sauter, step, soutenu, pose. Tori (or Julianne) and I follow with those same steps 2 counts later. Tori (or Julianne)and I do a little duo to switch places, which I finish with a rondajambe into sous-sou in to arabesque with the left leg back. All of us then do a breath with our arms.

Terra Firma

All last week, I helped tech for the Terra Firma show. It was a new experience for me because i never really had to hang lights or put in gels before. It was interesting to see how the dancers worked all week to have a show.
In the show there were about 5 pieces. I didn't really understand what some of the dances were about. The costumes for Ms. Mack's piece were beautiful. The women started off wearing a crochet dress with a nude leo under and changed into a blue unitard with a lace overpiece.
In the last piece of the show, there was a film being projected onto the back wall. I never really saw anything like that before.