Ballet Central Diary

I'm back!

Sorry about that, college is really busy at the moment. We're rehearsing our Graduation solos at every possible opportunity. Anyway back to where I left off, our last day trip venue was Epsom, the coach journey was fun and we sang virtually the whole way home! It was a good last show; I felt more confident being back on stage and really enjoyed the performance. I can’t believe how near the end of the tour is though, it feels as though I’ve been in a coma for the last couple of months as the tour had only just begun when I got injured and now its ending! We’re all getting really scared about finishing now and are going to miss each other lots, its such a weird feeling as we spend so much time we each other the thoughts of not seeing people for long periods of time is awful! I live with Julia and Leonne so we’ve decided to stay down in London for an extra week before going our separate ways. That way we can spend a bit more quality time with each other and do some last minute sight seeing.

We did the get –in at Bloomsbury yesterday, it was quite a difficult one with all of the equipment having to go through the front doors and in through the auditorium. Not fun when the weather is 30 degrees! It’s going to be a really busy week with performances on Thurs (with the school), Fri matinee (BC), Fri eve (school), Sat matinee (school), Sat eve (BC) and then 2 performances of our Grad solos on Sun. This is with rehearsals squished in between too. On top of this Julien and I have been trying to write the speech for Graduation and I’ve been busy making necklaces to go with peoples dresses. By the end of the week we still need to have enough energy to be able to party until the early hours of Monday morning. Luckily Bill and Elia have given us the day off; I suppose they’ll be needing it too! I am also trying to choreograph a piece for the Garden party but its moving very slowly.

I am really excited about this week and really want to enjoy it, but it will be a rollercoaster of emotions. It will be so strange leaving this environment and venturing out into the big wide world alone. I’m scared, really scared but looking forward to what the next three years will hold. I’ll try to write next week and tell you how the Bloomsbury week went. Go to go, off to a European ballet audition!! Speak soon.

P.S Julia has some very exciting news to tell you!!

Posted by Katherine Hollinson at July 4, 2006 09:47 AM