Escape! to High Heaven

It has been quite the night!

For starters, I am trying to kick a stinking head-cold in the rear so that I can get back to my life, but it seems to be hanging around… darn! No, no, no! Pain, pain, go away! Miss Sara, too, is getting over a cold, dear, oh, dear. It would be very nice if she could speak tomorrow…

That stated, I omitted hanging up-side down from modern class today. While my sisters relaxed into the Downward Dog, I got some excellent stretching done in my arms— yay! After warm-up, we did a bit of across-the-floor and then moved on to “escaping.”

This “escaping” is a new concept, one which Miss Sara primarily introduced last week. Essentially, one individual must stand in the middle of a group of girls and attempt to… well… escape… while her peers grab at her head, arms, waist, legs– virtually anything! It is definitely challenging, despite my first impression (especially when your head is spinning in a thousand different directions).

After escaping my sisters (It was quite entertaining, might I add.), we moved on to a posing exercise. Once again, one individual was chosen from the group and her peers were responsible for moving her in different directions; however, the individual was not to escape, but to keep energy in all of her limbs in order to be positioned desirably– ah! What an experience!

Finally, we began work on modern partnering, something which we will be seeing much of in the year ahead. Caroline and I were grouped together, as we are the same height and weight. We performed a combination which reminded me somewhat of a High School Musical jump (though I can assure you that it wasn’t). Um… haha… yeah, let’s just say: we’ll keep working on this one… *winks*

I now proudly announce that my feet made it through an entire pointe class in my shoes today. <3 At last. Allison was able to make it to class as well, after a week-long cruise in the Bahamas and shared with us the details of a seashell that she found. To quote her, “it smells to High Heaven!”