Some people spend four hours at a half-day at school. Some people spend four hours on a road-trip. Some people spend four hours shopping. And some people spend four hours at dance. Like me.
What a wonderful evening!
I walked into Studio B today, prepared to teach my brains out in Miss Bethanny’s ballet/tap class. Upon sighting Bethanny, I gave her a huge hug, and the two of us expressed our excitement for the year ahead. “When I found out that you were going to be assisting me with this class,” she said, “I started doing back-flips!”
The class was AWESOME. I loved it. The girls were so very polite and mature. We worked on a bit of center, some stretching, leaps and played a few rounds of Freeze Dance— what fun!
After work, I had a thirty-minute dinner-break (which Abby so kindly joined me for), and then it was on to modern! The class is much smaller this year, as we have three different levels now, which is quite nice. To begin, we performed our usual warm-up, complete with plies and tendus. Afterward, we did some across the floor work (ah!– crazy!) and stretching. I especially enjoyed our final developpe combination.
Finally, it was time for Training 3. This class, like modern, is quite a bit smaller than Training 2 last year, consisting of only ten dancers. We did a “smidgen” of barre-work and then ran down to Studio B to put on our pointe shoes. Once there, we found Bethanny (she had a long day!), who informed us that more dancers are needed for her choreography class. Apparently, Elizabeth and I are the only two who are currently signed up…!
As this was my first class in my new pair of pointes, I started to feel the pins and needles after a while and resorted to my flats. Though my feet cramped for the rest of class, my chaines turns were not a complete failure, and I managed to make it through without any blisters… yay!