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December 10, 2003
Ashley's December Entry
Hi guys,
Could this term have gone any quicker? It only seems like a couple of weeks ago when we started the third year (scary). It seems like I haven’t even stopped since my last entry, what with classes, rehearsals etc and I can’t believe we start to tour in a few months. Saying that, we have already done six pieces towards our tour, which we have been rehearsing like mad for a performance we had on Wednesday 3rd December at the Tate Britain.
This event was organised by Ballet Central’s sponsor, ScottishPower, giving us a great start before the tour. As I said, the programme for the performance consisted of six pieces ranging from Ballet to Neo-classical to Contemporary Dance and Jazz Dance. It can prove difficult to change style quickly and it didn’t help with the stage we had – it was put up in one of the Tate Britain galleries and was 3ft high platform with nothing but tape showing the edge, which can be very scary when you’re right near the edge jumping. Other than that it was a great night and I can’t wait for the actual tour to start. I was involved in two pieces in the show. The first being ‘Scottish Dances’ from Flowers of the Forest, which David Bintley gave us permission to perform at this private event (and being Scottish, it was particularly relevant to our sponsors, ScottishPower). In the second I played Jonathan Harker in a pas de deux from Northern Ballet Theatre’s Dracula. ‘Scottish Dances’ uses Scottish themes, and involves wearing a very heavy kilt (not nice to jump in). I found this a great piece as it gives you the chance to basically show off in a very subtle way. This is very different to Dracula when I have to turn into a nervous wreck as I’m being tortured by Dracula. I find this a brilliant role to play, as I have to make everything look a struggle as Dracula is overpowering me, slowly wearing me down. This was a great start to our third year at Central and gave us a brilliant insight to the tour.
Ashley
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