It begins
Dear Readers (anybody?),
welcome to my first Ballet Central weblog. I hope my little contributions are in some way entertaining.
This week has been very eventful. It started with us getting ready for our first date of the tour. I had been madly rehearsing my pieces, one of which (Cinderella pas de deux) I had been thrown into because of injury and was still feeling a little scared about it all right up to the first night. In the event my partner and I managed to pull it together okay (barring a little mishap on the final lift) and I suppose it helps that it's a piece that I have loved since first seeing it on a Central School of Ballet open day.
My other big piece was 'Rendezvous' the first of two solos choreographed by Sara Matthews and is inspired by a WW1 poem by Alan Seeger ('I have a rendezvous with death'). The second (if you are interested) is inspired by the Wilfred Owen poem 'Futility', (Move him into the sun...). I really enjoy dancing Rendezvous. It's partly the sheer challenge of the movement and the fact that since it is largely in silence, you have some degree of control over the pacing and dynamics, but also that with such emotive subject matter, there's a lot of opportunities for interpretation.
So the first performance was pretty good from all. "A good place to build from" is how it was referred to and I suppose that's about right. It should just keep going up and up- come and see it twice, decide for yourself. He he.
We had an excellent audience at Ilford; very appreciative and it was nice to experience that. Thanks to all.
In other news I signed my first professional contract today. After school is over it's off to Leeds and into some real paid work with Northern Ballet Theatre. I'm very excited about it all, but it's pretty scary. I've never even been to Leeds before. One very beneficial part of finding out that I have something after graduation is that it removes some of the pressure from the year. At least I don't have to worry about doing more auditions and can just work on improving and doing the best that I possibly can in the tour. Should be fun. I'll let you know.
This brings my entry to a close. I have to get some sleep as I'm busy filling in for other injured dancers at the moment- it's a hazard of the job.
Until next time,
Robert
Posted by Robert Phillips at March 17, 2006 10:32 PM
