Ballet Central Diary

Long Time No Speak

Hello readers, Sorry I have not written for so long but things here have been sooooo busy. I shall bring you up to date as to where we are. It is the day before the Linbury performance and so we are being worked really hard and the pressure is really on. It seems that loads of really important people are coming to watch tomorrow, including royalty! I am looking forward to the performance but yet at the same time am a bit nervous. The tour has been going really well with some really great performances. The highlight so far has to be Hexham as Freya said. We had a great audience and it really made you want to dance for the audience. The last tour was really good fun but really tiring to trapse accross the country from venue to venue. Its funny how every motorway looks exactly the same very quickly. The only welcome relief comes from overpriced service stations! It was also really nice to spend a bit of free times in the places we went too. Even if this was delayed by gettting locked in the hotel room with malcolm because of the hotels dodgy lock. It was also really nice to visit Hadrians Wall. I can safely say as a truely Southern boy that it was the furthest north I have ever been! I also think we were the only people that have ever visited the wall and taken ballet photos on top of it. I doubt the Romans ever did that and we got some very funny looks from walkers. We have also received lots of good reviews that have been really encouraging. I hope that they and the good performances continue. I will leave you know as i need to go to class but if you are coming to the Linbury then enjoy the show. I will let you know how it goes afterwards. Bye x

...here is a little picture of me and Bec...once she'd been found!

catch up

hello there...i think its time i updated you on a few things that have happened in the world of Ballet Central since I wrote last. As Emma said, the second tour was amazing, being 8 days of solid fun and drama, with very long coach journeys inbetween times to break it up. however, the motorway did not deter us from having a good time, but towards the end of the tour it became just a little bit wearing, and whenever a service station appeared that had a Marks and Spencers a joyful cry went up because it meant we could get ourselves a treat!! The first venue was Crosby (which has a lovely tapas restaurant by the way) and the performance went ok, but the best was (as Emma said) the first night in Hexham. You definitely learn to treasure responsive audiences! In Colywn Bay Matt, Emma, Bec and I went to a local school and ran a workshop for their students who were studying dance. They were wonderful! especially when we started to teach them a section from Overleap (the final piece in the programme) because they were sooo enthusiastic, they were lovely to teach, especially since we were slightly nervous when we arrived! and afterwards they faithfully came to watch the performance and gave us a standing ovation!!!!! twas fabulous :) nearing the end of the tour, people were starting to miss London, so when the coach passed through familiar surroundings on the way home there was a lot of excitement! there were people and buildings instead of fields of sheep!! (of which there had been many!) anyway, that seems an age ago now, as we are all stressing about our dissertations and other degree work that needs to be handed in very soon...and also about the Linbury performance coming up! it's in two days and rehearsals have been plenty! loads of very important people are coming so the nerves are beginning to kick in...
will write again soon.....hopefully sooner than last time! x