Saturday, April 22, 2006
aristaL 06 :)
someone please tell me ystday was just the full dress rehearsal with full house audience?
it's over. so soon.
heh i donno how i shld be feeling.
exuberant because everyth went fine, exuberant because of the love of dance came through freely in last night's perf.
yet i guess a huge-r part of me is feeling very nostalgic.
aft the curtain call it finally came t hrough to me that it's over.
there was a frenzy of hugs and tears on stage all around me. i rbered hugging all the juniors, plus nia, tracy, yeong chyn, zhu, sok. when my kor came on stage to find e dancers i got a hug from him too.
i thought i'd cry in front of my kor, but i didnt. i'm stronger :) bet he's proud of me.
but yar. it was like the end of the horrendous dance schedule. ballet and mr gn's on alt days.
hah i dont feel so attached to the ballet item actually. we started choreography in feb, and well, it was like deja vu (college day 04). no offence to mr chong, but glad as i was doing ballet, if ballet was all i did this dance night, i prob wont be feeling this way.
it's mr gn's item.
have known him since 2004 since he choreographed 6pm.urbanstyle for vive 2004. he knew me as e 'girl with superb memory', so when i got through auditions initially for the SEAMEO perf in march, was really glad to work with him again.
we learnt (5 of us) the entire dance in 2 sessions.
but MOE trimmed 3/4 of it, and it really lost its flavour. thus we decided to do e entire item with more ppl (+4) for aristaL.
ccab dance studio had been like my second home.
honestly, i had dreaded walking up the hill to the studio. but on tues (last mr gn's prac) i really didnt feel like leaving. coz i didnt know when will be e nxt time i can step in again.
it was the place i had spent half the yr at, where i had panted, perspired, let my body and emotions take over.
i really REALLY miss the studio, the dance, mr gn himself. oh, and dan. mr gn's assistant and teacher at sba :)
i've grown so attached to that dance. it seemed as if i had known it since birth.
so when ystday on stage we were doing this item i felt a pang, like, this is the last time i'm gg to do this. but it's because of this i forced myself to do my best, by letting all my love and emotions for this dance flow out through my movements.
i want to go back to the studio. i want to hear the music blasted in the room, giving each dancer extra energy.
i need to dance.
okay okay, enough of nostalgia, let me relate ystday's incidences. i went to sch in the morn to hand in my pi. through shannon lar. then went to far east flora to buy roses. bleahh it was freezing and since i had 60 ppl to buy for, prices were, although compared to florists they are cheap, higher than when i came to look on tues. there werent much variety too -_- but i was rushing for time, so just bought them and guess wat, i forgot roses had thorns. used to getting roses w/o thorns. ohh my gosh i had no time to go remove the thorns, so i didnt care and chionged dwn to ucc. mr gn's girls had to come earlier to mark spaces. since i spent so much time at far east flora, i didnt have lunch, so asked kor help me buy. yar kor came when everyone had arrived and were getting ready for tech run at 3. he gave me bread la. chocolate :) and a pink rose. yay.
ohh yar, during marking of stage with mr gn he was rehearsing my grand jete (added on thurs) and pencil turn (added AT THAT TIME, 1pm 21st apr), he said it's scary to see me losing weight and asked me to eat more. upon knowing i hadnt taken lunch (once reached UCC we immediately marked stage) he went to tracy and told her to give me more of the cookies he bought for us. he told her to make me eat. yar. but i dont think it's visible tt i lost weight lehh. :S
hmmm well tech run went fine. nth much happened in e dressing rooms. jus gave out my thorny roses lor :)
debrief for tech run, test of lightings for some groups (ballet supposed to try, but no time). while waiting for our turn i was practising my grand jete and pencil turn. bleahh was quite stressed coz i cldnt do e turn right aft the jete.
aft tech run, make up, then dinner, where mr ho gave us notebooks with our names. yar then warmup, change into costume. abt 7:10 my kor came dwnstairs to say a few words of encouragement to all the wd-ers. then he came over and i was like i'm very nervous. i donno why lei. i was just jittery and scared. then he held my shoulders and said don't worry, just do your best and i'll be watching you. yupp thanks kor :)
then the concert kicked off. ballet went okay. though my first penchee i cldnt stay en pointe and went demi pointe at the last beat. like instead of holding 4 counts i went demi on e 3 1/2 count. not too obvious lar. pirouettes and everyth was fine.
rushed dwn to dressing room aft ballet, then started getting ready for mr gn's item. ya aft i'm done (didnt trust my own makeup skills, so zhu helped me) i went along the corridors to prac my grand jete and pencil turn. haii.
okay mr gn's item. i guess i didnt want it to end. but nontheless, i did it with all my heart and have no regrets abt my performance :) the grand jete and pencil turn were straight as well. double YAY :)
nth much aft tt. talked to jess and anchi awhile before slacking in the dressing room. finally they called us up for finale.
gosh there was the surge of joy and triumph.
aft curtains went dwn, as mentioned hugs and tears everywhere. took group pics and with mr gn, kor. helped ppl take too :)
aft tt gathered my stuff from e dressing room and went out coz ppl were waiting. outside, immediately saw chin, yuenyi prong, shannon charissa. haha flowers lar, as i walked saw alot more ppl, and was swamped with flowers :) gosh haha.
today i sorted my gifts properly. for flowers, i have 1 reddish-orange rose, 1 orange rose, 1 beige rose, 6 pink roses, 1 pink rose bud, 1 large purple rose, 1 red rose, 3 pink gerberas, 1 beige gerbera, 1 hotpink gerbera, and 3 orchids (purple, magenta and yellow). so in all 11 roses 4 gerberas 3 orchids :)took pics! (ehh there's some prob wif uploading e pics. will upload asap okay? alternatively can click here)
oh ya, sharon's special flower:
cauliflower! :)
then plus dan gave e 5 SEAMEO girls a shirt he designed himself:
nice right :)
and jing gave a star:
yay :)
hmmm okay i spent alot of time writing this, have to mug le.
i'm gg to miss MR GN, CCAB STUDIO, MY KOR.
i'll see e studio everytime i flick open my phone. it is my display pic
ahhhhhh.
aristaL 06
xiao jo
@ 12:28 PM
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