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I'm so hexcited for Spring Show this semester.
Finally, I will be Lucy Westenra, which as we all know I've been completely insane about for several months to a year. Right now I'm listening to the Masquerade Waltz by Khachaturian on loop, which is the song to the first scene where all the townspeople are waltzing and stuff. There's a little interlude where Mina and Lucy greet each other and Lucy's like, "I have big news! I'm getting married!" and then they dance and jump in celebration. This was what we did last Friday, and honestly I think it's super fucking good! It doesn't look like we just choreographed it in 20 minutes, it really looks like we rehearsed it for 2-3 weeks. My choreographer/dance partner/Dracula said so. The "celebration" part is very "peasants in Giselle", I think it looks really classical.
I will also be taking cues from Giselle when I get turned into a vampire! Lucy is going to take down her hair and get really like messy and distraught. It also coincides with her transforming to being a classical ballet dancer to having less conventional dancing. My choreographer/dance partner/Dracula calls the arms he gave me the "throwing up arms", lol. The vampires aren't sexy and beautiful and sparkly, they're always hungry and animalistic and fucking gross. Which is sexy in its own way.
My nerd ass will also be choreographing a piece to My Castle Town by Toby Fox from Deltarune. I purposely wanted to choreograph something special for the beginner/intermediate dancers who have serious potential. Something special that they'll feel good doing. I've simplified the choreography a bunch, I hope they'll be able to keep up with it though. As long as they can do balancés, waltz turns, and piques they'll probably be fine. I hope. If anything, the turns can be turned into balances. I choreographed it with lots of breaks and discrete sections so they'll basically be like across the floor steps.
I was lowkey fighting with another choreographer over one dancer who would've been literally perfect for what I was trying to do with the level, but she was one of 7 people available for the other choreographer's time slot. And the dance just had to have 7 people. In the end, I ended up scoring that dancer, on the condition that I also dance in that dance. It's contemporary, to a pop (?) or lyrical type song. I actually haven't listened to this song yet, I hope it's not horrible. I have beef with "lyrical" dance for not being a real dance style. It's just dance competition (eugh) bait contemporary dance set to music with lyrics in it.
So when I was asked if I'd like to be in the dance, I said, "Is it... contemporary?" with apprehensive derision in my voice.
The choreographer said, "No don't worry it'll be really ballet-based, so no flopping around on the floor, and it'll be dark and spooky and there'll be partnering."
"Partnering???" I was sold. Hopefully that dance turns out fun.
UPDATE: IS THE SONG WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME BY BIRDEATSBABY? BECAUSE I GENUINELY FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG OMFG????? OMG?????? WAIT THIS IS GONNA BE SO FUCKING GOOD OMFJGJDSKGHJDSKLMNV I didn't see the artist on the castlist or anything, but when I looked up "What the Water Gave Me" this song came up.
Wait I think that just came up because of my spotify algorithm: the song is more likely to be the Florence + The Machine song. You know what, I'll take it. I don't absolutely despise f+tm and Ethel Cain likes them so. Surely it'll be okay. It's still kind of that lyrical competition bait feel that scares me a bit, but the choreographer invited us to a WhatsApp group to poll us on what steps we'd like to do, and to put a thumbs down on something we'd absolutely NOT want to do. So I reacted a thumbs down to "contemporary: contractions, modern/abstract movement" lol.
Only classical ballet comes naturally to me. I can't choreograph anything else, and visions of variations come effortlessly to my mind when I listen to music. I like this about myself. I've been so immersed in ballet since I was a child. I am good at it now, I think. I hope.
I like that my lovers find it attractive, too, that's a nice bonus, lol. I'm obviously still focused on the artistic element of it and of how it makes me feel to be in class or on stage, but. People do think it's impressive. My childhood best friend was telling me about how she took a ballet class and she has so much more respect for me now because it was genuinely so fucking hexausting even when she was doing the basic steps. And like. Yeah. But I've been doing this shit for so long that it's second nature to me.
I think I do like this song. I hope this dance is good.... seems like the dancers will have some input on the choreography too, so I won't get stuck doing something I hate. Cool!
I'm so hexcited for Spring Show this semester.
Finally, I will be Lucy Westenra, which as we all know I've been completely insane about for several months to a year. Right now I'm listening to the Masquerade Waltz by Khachaturian on loop, which is the song to the first scene where all the townspeople are waltzing and stuff. There's a little interlude where Mina and Lucy greet each other and Lucy's like, "I have big news! I'm getting married!" and then they dance and jump in celebration. This was what we did last Friday, and honestly I think it's super fucking good! It doesn't look like we just choreographed it in 20 minutes, it really looks like we rehearsed it for 2-3 weeks. My choreographer/dance partner/Dracula said so. The "celebration" part is very "peasants in Giselle", I think it looks really classical.
I will also be taking cues from Giselle when I get turned into a vampire! Lucy is going to take down her hair and get really like messy and distraught. It also coincides with her transforming to being a classical ballet dancer to having less conventional dancing. My choreographer/dance partner/Dracula calls the arms he gave me the "throwing up arms", lol. The vampires aren't sexy and beautiful and sparkly, they're always hungry and animalistic and fucking gross. Which is sexy in its own way.
My nerd ass will also be choreographing a piece to My Castle Town by Toby Fox from Deltarune. I purposely wanted to choreograph something special for the beginner/intermediate dancers who have serious potential. Something special that they'll feel good doing. I've simplified the choreography a bunch, I hope they'll be able to keep up with it though. As long as they can do balancés, waltz turns, and piques they'll probably be fine. I hope. If anything, the turns can be turned into balances. I choreographed it with lots of breaks and discrete sections so they'll basically be like across the floor steps.
I was lowkey fighting with another choreographer over one dancer who would've been literally perfect for what I was trying to do with the level, but she was one of 7 people available for the other choreographer's time slot. And the dance just had to have 7 people. In the end, I ended up scoring that dancer, on the condition that I also dance in that dance. It's contemporary, to a pop (?) or lyrical type song. I actually haven't listened to this song yet, I hope it's not horrible. I have beef with "lyrical" dance for not being a real dance style. It's just dance competition (eugh) bait contemporary dance set to music with lyrics in it.
So when I was asked if I'd like to be in the dance, I said, "Is it... contemporary?" with apprehensive derision in my voice.
The choreographer said, "No don't worry it'll be really ballet-based, so no flopping around on the floor, and it'll be dark and spooky and there'll be partnering."
"Partnering???" I was sold. Hopefully that dance turns out fun.
UPDATE: IS THE SONG WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME BY BIRDEATSBABY? BECAUSE I GENUINELY FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG OMFG????? OMG?????? WAIT THIS IS GONNA BE SO FUCKING GOOD OMFJGJDSKGHJDSKLMNV I didn't see the artist on the castlist or anything, but when I looked up "What the Water Gave Me" this song came up.
Wait I think that just came up because of my spotify algorithm: the song is more likely to be the Florence + The Machine song. You know what, I'll take it. I don't absolutely despise f+tm and Ethel Cain likes them so. Surely it'll be okay. It's still kind of that lyrical competition bait feel that scares me a bit, but the choreographer invited us to a WhatsApp group to poll us on what steps we'd like to do, and to put a thumbs down on something we'd absolutely NOT want to do. So I reacted a thumbs down to "contemporary: contractions, modern/abstract movement" lol.
Only classical ballet comes naturally to me. I can't choreograph anything else, and visions of variations come effortlessly to my mind when I listen to music. I like this about myself. I've been so immersed in ballet since I was a child. I am good at it now, I think. I hope.
I like that my lovers find it attractive, too, that's a nice bonus, lol. I'm obviously still focused on the artistic element of it and of how it makes me feel to be in class or on stage, but. People do think it's impressive. My childhood best friend was telling me about how she took a ballet class and she has so much more respect for me now because it was genuinely so fucking hexausting even when she was doing the basic steps. And like. Yeah. But I've been doing this shit for so long that it's second nature to me.
I think I do like this song. I hope this dance is good.... seems like the dancers will have some input on the choreography too, so I won't get stuck doing something I hate. Cool!
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