Julia's First Entry
Hello, the tour has only just begun but I thought I would come on and introduce myself! I have been at Central since first year and I cannot actually believe that the Tour has arrived. We have all been building up to this moment for so long but now that it is here I feel like it's crept up so quickly! I trained first of all at a local dance school near to my home in Wokingham, before moving to learn with Susan Robinson in Surrey. I have always wanted to be a dancer and my absolute dream would be to be able to get a classical job for when I graduate. However, now that auditions are upon us I'm feeling a lot more anxious about the whole thing! (More of that later!)
We had our opening night on the 15th at Ilford. The theatre is a really nice size and we had lots of room backstage to spread out. We did the get-in on the Monday which was fine. I am on the sound team, but so far it seems like we don't have to do much compared to everyone else! We had technical and dress rehearsals on the Tuesday which went really well, then another dress rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon. This rehearsal was disasterous! I think that because it had gone so well the night before and because we were tired it just all fell apart. The costumes for one of the pieces literally fell apart(!) but were frantically fixed by our amazing wardrobe mistress Annie in the nick of time. However, after some stern notes and encouragment, everyone pulled themselves together for the evening.
In the opening performance I dance in St Paul's Suite, Coppelia, Le Corsaire, Moving On and Going South for the Winter (usually referred to as Birds). It went really well! I thoroughly enjoyed dancing St Paul's because the music is so beautiful and you just get carried away. I always find Swanhilda fun to dance, particularly acting with all the others girls whom I am really good friends with in life too! Corsaire is a nerve wracking but exciting experience and Jenna's is great fun, although apparently I didn't point my feet at all! Birds was fine and provided an energetic end to our first show. It is a big piece so I don't think we will ever have enough space but we coped well! Everyone was on such a high after the performance and we all clubbed together really well to do the get-out. Apparently we will get faster and faster as time goes by, and our aim is to get it done in twenty minutes! Got a bus back to school and then the lovely bus driver agreed to drop us off just outside our flat in Angel which was much appreciated as my legs had slightly seized up by this point. Fell into bed and before i fell asleep I momentarily appreciated that I did not have to get up at 5am, travel somewhere else, and do the whole thing over again - this tour business is going to be tough! That said, I can't wait for the next one!
Posted by Julia Davies at March 16, 2006 06:53 PM
