Today was a lot less stressful than yesterday, but still nonetheless a stressful part of this hell-ish weekend of previews! Luckily, after my long day yesterday, I was able to sleep in until 9:00AM. My first class was at Southgate, so in close proximity, and I was able to make it to class on time. We had Marjani Forte, from Urban Bush Women as well as Roger Belman teach. This was definitely one of my favorite classes that I have taken so far! Seeing Marjani again was wonderful, since I had taken class from her at ACDFA at Muhlenberg College and have had class with her fellow company members, like Bennalldra Williams. Roger's combinations were so fluid, and made sense to me. I felt really comfortable and happy in class. This class is definitely one I will consider when finalizing my final schedule.
Then afterwards, I went to my next class which was Afro-Modern with Michelle Gibson and Ballet with Elizabeth Corbett. We started with a 45 minute ballet barre from Corbett, which was different, but also a nice warm up for what we were about to encounter...Then Michelle came out and as soon as she walked in the room her ball of fire energy radiated onto the whole group as we learned this very challenging Afro-Modern fusion phrase. It was really intense, and she really pushes you to work hard. I mean, I don't think I have sweat so much this entire weekend until I got to her class! It was a really great class however, and she told us all to make sure that we take a class that we are uncomfortable in- because it will help us grow.
After that I had a long break from 1:30-6:00PM where I spent most of my day lounging around, watching Breaking Bad and sleeping because they were the time slot for people who got callbacks for Footprints. But later I had MFA auditions, which were wack! They shoved 300+ people into a room for one hour and tried to audition people for 4 different MFA's works. Literally walked across the floor, turned around to look behind myself - with intent, and continued walking and got cut- with the rest of the 280 people. We learned a phrase for one MFA student who cut everyone except 20ish people who did a partnering section. And then just got completely cut at the end when they told us to go home...interesting. Not too upset about it considering how they picked people. Definitely a good experience, because now I can say I have been in an audition where they did a ridiculous experiment and cut people after not seeing any of our potential. It also was an unrealistic amount of time and people in one room to see everyone- so it was definitely all about luck, I guess I just didn't have any today! But no worries, you move on.
Tomorrow I have one class in the morning and then I get to rest until Repertory auditions, which will be taking all day long! This weekend is almost over, thank the lord! I really need some stability in my life and schedule!
About a year ago I was at Lar Lubovitch, closing out my intensive with them! Here is a little reminder of my experience last summer, and inspiration for the next 5 weeks:
Love you all! Thanks for reading and continuing this journey with me!
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