Number of Steps: 10926
Well… I am sore as hell… let me just get that out of the
way.
This morning we tromped down to school for a slightly
earlier morning than we’ve had yet for our first singing class with the incomparable
Марина
(Marina). I love this woman. She speaks almost no English, but still
manages to communicate so much about singing it’s really amazing. And boy does she remember me from last
year. I ran into her yesterday, at which
point she gave me a big smile and a flurry of happy Russian, and this was only
compounded today in class when I got up to sing. I wasn’t great, but I wasn’t bad, and she noted
that I had gotten more confident since last year. Yeah – she REALLY remembers me from last
year. Then she asked me if I wanted an
easy song or a difficult song, so of course I answered a difficult song. So she gave me “Your Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime. This is a song I could never actually use
anywhere, but it definitely is tough.
Two students sang it last year, and I’m sure I’ll have a good time
working on it this year! It was also a
lot of fun hearing everyone else sing.
We really have a good group of voices this year, so I really think this
class is going to be a hoot!
After our awesome hour with Marina, we headed over to ballet
with Рэнад
(Renad), who is some sort of sculpted god.
Seriously, this guy is the very picture of elegance and grace. And though last year he seemed a little shocked
to be dealing with non-dancers, this year he knew what he was getting into, and
he really did a great job working us into the basics. That said… he also beat the living hell out
of us. The adagio sequence nearly killed
me.
After dance class it was another hurried lunch of buckwheat
and veggies before meeting to go over our beginning of class etude. Yesterday we were told to up the stakes, so
today we killed a groom at his own reception.
Boom. This was, of course, a
little over the top. But still, it was a
lot of fun. Then we played a pretty
intense game of Mafia – but the added element was that we had to choose a time
and place and then create characters for ourselves within those
circumstances. It was a lot of fun, and
turned out to be a pretty fascinating acting exercise. After that we did our first round of object
etudes. I was a G2 pen. It went alright, but it wasn’t nearly
detailed enough. Ah well. Better luck next time… if I ever come up with
another idea. Argh!
There was no show to see tonight, so I headed straight back
to the dorm and met with JT about possible shows for the group to see for the
rest of the month. It was a lot of fun
going through all these theatres, getting an idea of what might be ahead of
us.
*Луиз = Louise
all of your talk about how in shape everyone is over there is actually kind of inspiring :)
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