Update!

Ok, I know that most of my previous posts are titled the same thing-update. But this blog is kinda about my life, so I feel that basically I am updating you on what's happening in my life currently...anyway, last Sunday was our closing of Godspell. There were many tears, and by what people have been saying on Facebook, many after that day. I can confirm that that happened to me. We had created this great community of friends, and it was so hard to go from seeing each other every day like school to, well, not. I live in a different part of the city than where most of the cast does, and where the place I did the intensive is, so it's not like I can just wake up, walk a couple blocks, and be reunited with some people from the intensive.
Also, as soon as the intensive ended, I realized school will start in only a couple weeks, unfortunately. While most people spent their time at the beach or pool, going shopping or going to amusement parks, or on vacation, I spent it in an air conditioned theater, learning songs, memorizing lines, practicing dance steps, and finally, performing. But honestly? I didn't want to spend my summer how most did. I wanted to spend my summer just as it played out. And even though at the end of it all there were sad times, it was completely worth every second of it. It was an amazing experience, and I hope to have many similar to it.

I hope you enjoyed my sappy post- I'll post more soon because...back to school is happening soon. But hey, more to post on! I think I might do some sort of "What's in my dance bag" post.
I'll be posting soon!
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Opening Night!

Hi everyone! It's been a while, I know, but honestly, I don't have a ton to post on. But today I do! As the title says above, tonight is the opening night of Godspell! I'm already getting butterflies thinking about it, because we're completely sold out! Last night we had a preview, with a sort of half audience...okay, let me explain: the theater has three sides, so, in a way, three audiences. There's a big center section, and then two smaller sides, which are probably half-ish as big as the center. Anyway, the preview audience was pretty much full in the middle, one side audience had the front row filled, and the other one had one person in the second row...that means tonight is going to be so different.
Well, I should go...wish me luck!
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Another Update...

Hello everyone! Time has flown by so fast, it's been a week since my last post! Oh, and happy August! I know that some people in different states start school this week or the 15th, or something like that, but I start back September 5th, so I still have a month of summer left :)
Godspell has been going amazing! I saw the level younger than me in their production of School House Rock Live, Jr., and they were very cute! I think it would be more interesting if there was more acting. It was mostly songs, and lasted for only about 40 minutes (Godspell's first act is somewhere around 50 minutes, and the second act is about 20ish).
Oh, I have something dance related to post about, too! I killed my second pair of pointe shoes! YAY!!! I feel so accomplished. So sometime soon my mom and I are going to go to a dance store, where I really want to try on Freeds... There's no rush because next week my intensive starts going an hour later, and then that Friday we start tech (adding in all the lights, and everything) which we do the following Monday, too, and that's 3 hours later than when we usually end. ANYWAY, the reason it's not going to be a rush is because I won't be able to make my dance classes that week, or for the next because our performances start on Wednesday the 15th.

Well, that's about it for now! I hope you all enjoyed, and thanks for reading!
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Quick Update

Hey everyone! I know it's been a little while, but I have been so busy lately! We only have four weeks to get our Godspell show together, and time has flown by so incredibly fast-yesterday was the end of our second week. I actually have to choreograph a dance to the musical part (interlude?) of All Good Gifts, so that is something I will be working on this weekend.
Sorry to make this post short-is there anything that you would like me to post on? Please comment below!
Bye!

Godspell!

Hello everyone! As the title says above, I will be posting on my experience in my theater intensive today. So, first off, I'd like to say this isn't you average summer theater camp where you have a week to sorta learn the songs, put some cool-ish dance moves to them, and call it a show. No, this is an intensive, meaning it's hard work, where the songs have to be near perfect, our diction has to in tip-top shape, and we have classes twice a week to help with acting. But the best part of all of it? I LOVE it!!! We're three days into it, have learned about six of the songs, and worked on some blocking (which, if you don't know, is how we move around the stage, and where we are in a scene...and stuff like that).
This thing is also four weeks long, so it's going to be a lot of serious hard work and focus that has to be on point every minute. Godspell is also such a fun show (with the tendency to be repetitive), so it's hard not to have fun!

I hope you guys enjoyed this post! I'll definitely post more later, whether it's about Godspell or dance, I don't know.
Bye!

ARGH!!!!! SO Sorry!!!

Hello everyone! I'm am mentally slapping myself, because I forgot my promise of more posts this week! But I'm posting now, and starting tomorrow, I will have way more to blog about, although it won't all be about ballet/dance. Tomorrow starts my summer musical theater intensive that I talked about way back when I auditioned for it. As I said then, the musical we will be doing is Godspell, and I am so excited!!! 

Here's what I'll try to do: weekly updates on what's happening in the intensive/camp and on ballet/dance. I am currently taking 4 ballet classes per week, and 1 lyrical class.

This is a real promise! I like blogging a lot, and if anyone cares what my summer life is like, and reads this blog, then they are going to be filled in on a lot. 

Okay, so before I go, I want to talk a little bit about my lyrical class. I am taking an advanced lyrical class with the most stupendarific teacher ever! What I'm really excited about, though, is the little combo that we're working on (not to perform, just for fun), because the music is.....................wait for it.....................still waiting..........................................................................stiiiiiill waitiiiiiiinngg..............Call Me Maybe!!!!!!!!!!! OMIGOODNESS, it's just so fun!!! (Sorry my sudden outburst, if it sounds annoying or dorky :P) We get to be all flirty and cheesy, and our recital performance for beg./inter. lyrical was so serious, almost sad, so it's fun to loosen up for the summer.

Okay, I think that's all for today! I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and look forward to more coming soon!

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First Class Back!

Hello everyone! Today I felt like making a (short) post, and I wasn't sure what to post on...and then I remembered that this past week I had my first ballet class at my regular studio since the June recital. So I'm going to post on that.
The class was last Monday, so yes, it has been about a week, but I can still remember it so that's good. Summer classes are always small, but that day it was only me and another girl. Thankfully, our teacher understood that we hadn't had the opportunity to dance for the last couple weeks, so she worked us a slight bit less than a regular class, say, halfway through the school/dance year. But the class was still challenging, and I was very happy to be back. I was sweating a lot by the end, and my calves hurt for the next couple days, but it was, in a way, refreshing.
This next week is my first full week of dance. Usually, I will have two other classes at my regular studio on Tuesday, a lyrical and another ballet, but since Wednesday was the Fourth of July, the studio was closed (and I was camping, so I wouldn't have been able to go anyway). I also am taking some open classes at another place Tuesdays and Thursdays to help maintain all the training I gained over this past year, and maybe gain some, because this schedule is different than my one that I had during the school year.

I hope you enjoyed this post! Just an update post mostly. More posts coming this week, and that won't be a forgotten promise!!! :)

P.S. Still thinking of creating that other blog mentioned in my last post...should I? I might just go ahead and make it.