Ballet Central Diary

Sarah Kundi’s January Diary

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas - I certainly did and enjoyed having a good rest.

Just before we broke up for the holidays, we all had our audition shots taken by the well-known dance photographer, Bill Cooper. This included portrait shots which was great fun, partly because I got to get my hair done! It was my first ever experience of a proper photo shoot with backdrops and lights - it was absolutely fantastic and I enjoyed every minute of it. We had to choose and rehearse ballet, neo- classical and contemporary dance positions beforehand so that when we got in there for the shots, we knew what we were doing. The thing that made me feel really at ease was that Bill Cooper was very helpful and communicative with us, giving us tips and advice on how to make our chosen positions look even better. What a fantastic photographer he is - probably helped by the fact that he had a successful dancing career himself.

During the holiday, I was chosen as one of eight dancers from CSB for a photo shoot with Sunday Times magazine. This was rather exciting, partly because we modelled Alexander McQueen clothing. It was a one day shoot and when we arrived in the morning, we all had our hair and make- up done - I was shocked when we had to wear red wigs!! We all looked so different (especially me - red hair does not suit me at all!!). Look out for the article.

We have now started rehearsing another work for our Ballet Central tour, one which many of you will know – we are going to perform extracts from ‘A Simple Man’, which was created by Gillian Lynne. Rehearsals have just started for it and I have the part of the tennis girl. The costume is lovely - I have to wear a white silky dress with a hat which has a long black plait attached to it. I also need a wooden tennis racket which my Dad luckily found for £1.50 in a charity shop - what a great Dad!! When we were shooting the production pictures for the piece, again with Bill Cooper, everyone was amazed that I was able to acquire a wooden racket as they are all but obsolete!

That’s all for now but I’ll catch up next month on how rehearsals and auditions are going.

Best Wishes

Sarah

Posted by at January 12, 2004 02:17 PM