Tuesday November 9,2010

Tuesday started off a little hectic. Once I got to school, I realized that I forgot to burn Sing,Sing,Sing on to a CD for the recruitment. Luckily, Ms.Mack was able to quickly burn a CD. We didn't check it to make sure it worked so when we got there, we had technical difficulties. The guidance counselor from the school was able to find us another CD player and it even had an iPod dock. I was able to play the song from my iPod. Other than that, everything else went fine.

Later that day, we showed our solos to our peers and Ms.Mack. Ms. Mack was surprised with my work. She started off my feedback with "holy cow!" She also said that she had never seen me so loose (in different words) before. She seemed to be overall satisfied with our class' work.

Monday, November 8,2010

Monday we had Laurie and she had a lot of books with wardrobe from the time period that we are studying. But during 5th period, Ashlei, Shannon, and I ran Fosse because we were doing recruitments the next two days. Once the freshmen arrived, we looked at wardrobe and learned about the dances of the time. Some of the wardrobe was extravagant. One of the dresses looked like it had a table underneath it. We learned more of the court dances. I felt like I had more of a focused face on this week. The more upbeat dances are more fun.

8th period, we worked on our solos that were due on Tuesday. After I got home, I went across to my grandparents' house to finish up my solo. I'm actually satisfied with what I came up with. I saw what Ms. Mack thought of it the next day.

Dance History and Yoga on a Thursday

Today during 5th period, the seniors cleaned the senior piece, while Ms. Mack started a duet with Dana and Rachel. When the freshmen arrived, we went over World Concert/Ritual and Folk dance for the quiz that we are taking tomorrow. After going over the slideshow, we watched some Polka, Bollywood, Bali, Bharata Natyam, Capoeira videos.

Instead of taking a modern technique class, we took yoga today. It felt so good since I've been sore lately. I felt relaxed afterward and I'm less sore than I was.

Wednesday October 27, 2010

Today is Wednesday. I thought this week was going by slow but it started to go by quicker. I was so out of it today because I couldn't go to sleep until 1:30 last night because I found out than an essay I thought was due Friday was due today. During 5th period, the seniors worked on cleaning on what we have for the senior piece because we look like a mess. We really have to clean it up.

When the freshmen arrived, we started working with Laurie. We learned about two styles of dance from her today, but I cannot remember the names at the moment. I enjoyed doing simple moves, but I guess I was so tired I didn't realize that I was making faces. I need to pay more attention to that next time. During 8th period, we ran through the rep a few times and we had to say "HA" for every move that we did. We then continued working on our assignments from yesterday. The duet that Dana and I had to choreograph actually came together well. I'm satisfied with what we have came up with.

Hopefully I can get to sleep earlier tonight.

Sore Tuesday

This morning I woke up really sore. I was dreading going to dance today because of that. Luckily, once we really started moving, it didn't hurt as bad as I thought it was going to. We set some of the senior piece today during 5th period. We did a ballet bar to warm up today and then we went directly to rep. We set the phrase that we learned during 8th period yesterday. I was actually able to absorb the material today. During 8th period, we moved on in the rep. Ms. Mack gave us each separate assignments. Dana and I had to find a way to do a phrase and stay connected and make it so we couldn't do it without the other person. We had a little trouble with it at first, but we fixed it and showed Ms. Mack again and she said it was better than our first attempt. Ms. Mack said that we will set a lot more of the rep tomorrow.

Tonight I have to do an entire essay on Beowulf that is due tomorrow. This should be interesting.

Mondays

Today is Monday, October 25, 2010. During our senior period, we worked on our solos and yet again, I started it over. When the freshmen arrived, we did a quick modern warm up and then went over the phrase we learned last Wednesday. Ms. Mack decided to leave that be for today cause it looked bad. We reviewed our solos/choreo projects and showed them to each other. After we were done showing, we got our snacks and ate them quick after getting a little confused by the Kanye West video/movie thing. We finished up with learning some rep.

When I got picked up from school, I went to New Brunswick to take a ballet class with Peggy at Lustig Dance Theatre for an hour and a half. Now it's time to do some homework.

Wednesday October 20, 2010

Today we went to the little gym because there was a gas leak in the studio and it was making us sick. It was surprisingly warm in the little gym, it felt nice compared to the coldness we feel everyday. We started with a yoga warmup. After the yoga warmup, we did tendus for 4 minutes straight, then we did a rond de jambe combination. We went over the phrase that we learned on Monday and learned a new phrase. I really like the phrase work we are doing this year so far.

I can tell that I am getting sick because I felt weak and really sore today. This is kind of good because I only have to make it through tomorrow then we have Friday off.