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January 21, 2005
Richard's January Diary
Dear Diary,
Hello again and Happy New Year!! I had a great Christmas holiday with my family and a good rest too. We started back on 6th January, and David Nixon was watching class, which was a bit scary for our first class back.
We’ve got straight back into the swing of things as rehearsals and fittings etc got underway. This week should be a busy one. On Wednesday and Thursday we’re having our Ballet Central photo shoot, which I’m looking forward to.
The rep for the tour is coming on. I really love the pieces we have, but at the moment the majority of works are more contemporary-based and it feels like we need more classical works. We’ve been told this is set to change however with several new classical pieces entering the repertoire, including a pas de deux that David Nixon is creating on us.
Also this week, Central is holding the first Central Friends Trust Awards, an award scheme that gives students a chance to win a bursary to support dance-related expenses by performing a solo and giving a presentation on how you would use the money. This is a particularly good opportunity for us third years that are starting what could be a very expensive year of auditions and travelling. I’m going to be dancing a solo from John Neumeier’s A Cinderella Story, which I learnt from Otto Bubenicek last summer in Prague.
This coming week also sees the return of Aurora Bosch, a teacher from the Cuban National Ballet School, who comes every year to teach for about a month as part of an exchange between CSB and the Cuban school and company. She’s an incredible teacher: she was prima ballerina with the National Ballet of Cuba in the 1960’s, and she still always warms up with the splits!
That’s about it for now; I’ll let you know how it all goes soon,
Richard.
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