Dancing Through Life

I am lying on my bed with an ice pack behind my back.  My toes are bloody and my knees are aching.

I would say that it has been a pretty successful in-depth study.

Five months ago, I was struggling to keep up in my ballet classes, forgetting exercises, and freaking out about learning a dance for the year end recital.  Pointe was only a distant dream.  Since then, I have greatly improved my posture, gotten my Pointe shoes, and learned an entire year and recital piece, as well as learning and advanced ballet solo as an understudy for the Wizard of Oz production at Glenealge.

And now it is time for the celebration of learning, also known as In-Depth Night.

My study easily lends itself a stage performance.  I am in the process of choreographing a one minute long piece to present on the night.  I am debating whether or not I also want to have a learning centre and do demos.  I am also toying with the idea of teaching very short exercises to guests at the In-Depth Night.  As it stands right now, though, I am probably going to have a small learning centre where I do demos, and I am defiantly presenting on stage.

I am by no means a choreographer, so that alone is gone to be one hell of a challenge.  I can easily perform choreography that is given to me, but creating it on my own is a whole different story.  Because I am relatively new to Pointe work, I will be doing a piece in the classical ballet style instead.  I am not at all ready to be dancing on Pointe.  If I do decide to do demos as a learning centre, I will incorporate some Pointe work into that.

That is, if my toes ever stop hurting.  Standing on the tips of your toes for an hour cannot be good for you.