Jarkko Lehmus Diary

Just a party animal?

In case you think I'm just another alcoholic party animal I have to correct you: I'm just an animal.

I've just read through my hung over ramblings from the Edinburgh days, corrected the spelling and added the words that I thought I wrote. I guess my mind was a bit faster than my fingers. You know when you're having a conversation and you really think you've said something but the other person just isn't following and then you realise you've jumped from one thought to another in the middle of the sentence only thinking about the bridging thought but you never actually said it out aloud? Funny that. I get it all the time. There's probably some wires loose in my head. Or maybe they've dissolved...

Tomorrow, 30th December, is Glasgow first night and Mara's last night. It's sad to see her go. She's really blown life into the character of Marie. There's a couple of new casts slowly working themselves up to speed and the existing casts are feeling pretty confident with what they're doing. The hardest bit of the tour is behind now and it's time to find a proper rhythm.

Watching different people coping with the work load has been very interesting. The difference in personalities, experience and where they've trained makes a huge difference to the way people deal with physical, emotional and mental stress. Dance schools, especially ballet schools, don't seem to teach much more than just the technique and the rest is up to the kids to learn the hard way. I'll think about that and delve deeper into the subject with better time.

Posted by Jarkko at December 29, 2003 03:48 PM