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May 28, 2004
Sarah's May Diary
A big hello to everyone!
I have some fantastic news to share with you all -
I have a job!!
I was offered the contract just over a month ago to join Northern Ballet Theatre in July. I still can’t believe it – it’s just starting to hit me that I am going to be moving up to Leeds, living and working there in only two months time. I feel so happy and relieved to have a job – I screamed down the phone when I received the news – I was ecstatic! It’s really good because Christie (fellow student and ballet.co.uk diarist) has also received a contract from NBT, so we’ll be there to help each other out, which makes it a bit less scary.
I officially signed the contract a few weeks ago and I start on the 19th July. That is only 9 days after our Graduation. I am looking forward to starting work with Northern Ballet Theatre. It shall be very exciting and I can’t wait.
We are now a good 6/7 weeks into the tour – almost half way I think and so far it has been running smoothly…
I recently had my first taste of touring away when we performed in Wrexham in April. I was cast in a Gillian Lynne’s A Simple Man (this time doing the Street Scene and ‘Coming from the Mill’) Andre Prokovsky’s ‘Vespri’ (pure classical ballet piece) and David Bintley’s ‘Flowers of the Forest’ (I danced the pas de deux role). The performance went well and as usual we all helped with get-out afterwards.
The following day I travelled to Warrington for a ScottishPower workshop with five fellow students. This was quite tiring especially travelling with all our luggage. We must have been on at least seven different trains that day to get there and back afterwards!... Aside from being tired from all the travelling and performing, we had lots of fun with the kids involved in the workshop. First we did a small demonstration for them of excerpts from the Ballet Central repertoire and then we worked with them helping to create pieces based on what we had demonstrated to show their parents…. It was great to see the enthusiasm of the kids – they really threw themselves into it.
Straight after this, we performed in Hertford. This was great because my Mum and dad and two sisters came to watch. One of my sisters hadn’t watched me dance in a few years and so it was really special to be dancing for her... I was really pleased to be dancing in ‘Flowers of the Forest’ and the Tennis Girl role from Simple Man again.
A few weeks ago, we left for our three venue tour which was in Hexham, Wakefield and Colwyn Bay. This I have to say was extremely tiring because they were three days on the trot with not a day in between to rest or catch up on the sleep.. So it was quite a struggle to get through them, but I am proud to say that I managed it! I absolutely loved Hexham. The town was pretty and the theatre was lovely too – I have less fond memories of Wakefield however, partly because a booming nightclub kept me awake late into the night and also because the theatre presented some difficulties. The stage we performed on had a horrible rake making turning and jumping more difficult and a little uncomfortable.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience that the tour brought, and I hope I have the opportunity to go on the Scotland tour which is next on the list.
I am signing off for now but I will keep you up to date on everything that goes on.
Until next month,
Love from
Sarah
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