Well, dance is over for me. I'm kind of sad, which is weird because I was frustrated a lot of the time this year. I think one of the worst oarts of performing, though I love it to death, is that a lot of the time, you work for a months to perform three times. I guess that's the nature of it, though.

So we had three performances, two evening and one matinee. The matinee was a new thing this year because the dance recital is really popular affair in our town. It was a god idea, I guess, but yesterday afternoon's audience was kind of blah (kind of like our performance...) and the place was only half full. Last night's audience, however, was GREAT! MY Triple Threats class did Work This Out from HSM2, and our goal was to get people on their feet. We didn't succeed the first two times, but last night, there were a bunch of HSM fans in the audience (I could see them lip-syncing to the song) and they stood up! So at least we acomplished one goal.

I won't really be sad to see any of my tap roututines go- I loathe tap and I don't want to d it ever again except in a show... although I probably will because I know I need to keep training if I want to be any good (which I am currently not). I definitely will not miss TT classes- those were just crap compared to how amazing last year was.

I will miss both my jazz routine and my ballet routine. Jazz was just FUN this year, and we danced to What I Like About You- I didn't have to fake a smile during that song because the routine was just so fun! I looooved ballet this year- I love the discipline it requires and how graceful I felt while performing the end product. It's kind of sad that I don't have the ballerina "look" (i.e. I'm short and chubby :p) because I really like it. I really want to keep taking classes.

We had major drama on the ballet front- our teacher was fired during our studio run-through. So my poor jazz teacher, who already had a million numbers to deal with and didn't know the number, had to try to help us. The routine actually went pretty well, especially last night. Our teacher was extremely strict, which was great for us because most of the six year olds in other routines didn't know their steps, but our six year olds knew what they were doing, even after our teacher was out of the picture. We had to make a lot of changes to the routine because one of the reasons he was fired was because he yelled at a girl and scared her so badly that she locked herself in the studio bathroom for forty-five minutes. She dropped out that day- less than a week before the recital. In our routine, we have a maypole, which the little kids wrap ribbons around. A girl form our level had to take the little girl's place and learn how to do the steps in about a day. It went pretty well, though.

So... it's over. Wow. This was my second year at this studio, and even though it was frustrating at times, it's definitely the best studio I've been to (out of the three, LOL). I have made great friends and I love all the teachers and most iportantly, I gained some dance skill. I'm still really not "good", especially in the tap area, but I at least have some basic skills to apply at auditions. Right now, after dancing for at least a few hours a day for the last week, it is really painful to walk. The front of my legs- i guess the muscle there- feels like it's heavily brusied... but it's not. My knees are though...

So today, I have two auditions! I'm excited! One is for the rock opera I posted a thread about- I'm just singing a ballad from Chess. It may not be the best choice, but I really didn't want to pull out a brand new song that I just started rehearsing. If that one gets out in time, I'll head straight to the second one, which is the one I was asked to audition for April (remember my story about them wanting to cast me? It's the same people.) I'm hoping the director from the last play is there so he can put in a good word for me. I have a much better shot at this role- she's fifteen, while the other one was 25. So... we'll see.