Dress Rehearsal

Day 350 of practice.

My new bra is done-ish (I may yet do more to it, but it's wearable now), so I had a quick dress rehearsal to make sure that everything would play nice together and that none of the embellishments would fly off my bra if I had a sudden shimmy attack. Everything seems great and I am extremely excited about my new costume and my solo, which is the closest I've ever come to choreographing something.

Tomorrow is the Plaza de Anaya student recital, so I should probably also practice my zills for that, as we have to do something a little new and different. I am surprisingly confident about playing zills on stage now, as long as I am not leading and zilling.

By the way... day 350! Only 15 days left in the year! Hard to believe.

Day 285 of practice.

Another dress rehearsal for Sunday's performance. I'm looking forward to finally performing instead of practicing ;) Feels like we've been working towards this show forever!

I suppose at some point I should actually figure out what I'm doing for my solo at this show, too.

Dress Rehearsal!

Day 278 of practice.

Today was a partial dress rehearsal for our student showcase next weekend. I like my costume but I think I need to inject more color -- our colors are black, red and yellow and I am mostly black whereas everyone else is wearing a lot of red. Maybe I can make some red tassels next week.

Good Wednesday

Day 159 of practice.

Today was a pretty good day. During the afternoon I ran a quick dress rehearsal for my solo, to make sure I could do floorwork in what I wanted to wear. I also discovered that I should wear my hair up, because if I wear it down it gets tangled in my crazy hair clip.

Speaking of hairclips, I got some in the mail which I will review next week!

Tonight I went to Fonda's class, where we did some fun drills and went back over a couple moves and then practiced dancing in formations. It was a good time.