Ballet Audition

Yes, as the title indicates, I did I a summer ballet intensive audition today. I was pretty confidant, but got more nervous when we were in the studio. There were about 80 people (some boys, but mostly girls) there, and I felt intimidated by how good some of the girls were. Barre went fine though. The only odd thing was, at our studio, we start with both hands off the barre for preparation, but I guess at that certain school, that's not how they do it, because many people started with one hand on the barre. That tripped me up for preparations, but otherwise it was fine.

Then onto center, for some reason my leg wouldn't hold up in the center when we did adagio, so it actually lowered enough so my foot touched the ground. It was frustrating because I knew I could do it, I was just so nervous that I had a hard time keeping my balance. Grrrr... But the other leg I did fine.

Across the floor was a bit odd. I don't know if it was because of our amount of time, but we would only do one side...odd. But whatever, that's OK. Then, we were instructed to put on our pointe shoes. We were told that if we hadn't done something in our other classes, we don't have to do it at the audition. I followed that rule and didn't do pique turns. That turned out to be very awkward on my part, because everyone else did the piques. So after everyone finished, there were a little less than 80 people on one side of the room (the boys didn't do them) and me on the other side. I felt like everyone was staring at me, but that was probably not true.

Last but not least, we have to wait up to 2 1/2 weeks to know. I want to know, but I already know that I'm doing the musical theater program this summer, so it's not an option for me, unless I drop out of Godspell.

Anyway, I'd like to hear from you: what do you do to make your auditions the best they can be? I'll post tomorrow about my musical theater callback. Bye!