Today, I went to the ABT Summer Intensive audition. Being my first real audition, I think some things went well, and some not so well.
Last night, I had to face probably the most stressful part of an audition: the arabesque photo. It took half an hour to get some and only one worked out. The flash on our camera gave the shot a 5 million bajillion second delay, so I'd fall out of my arabesque as soon as the picture was snapped. Eventually, we managed to get the flash off, and I changed just posing in arabesque to just pique-ing to arabesque, and agreed that my mom would snap the picture on "2" of my "3, 2, 1" countdown. In the end, my picture still came out slightly blurry and my back is sore from last night
I also observed during class last night that the sole of one of my soft slippers was pulling away from the rest of the shoe. I was really angry. I had a nice black leo for the audition. I even bought a new pair of tights last week, but wore my old, dingy pairs with holes in them during class this week just so I wouldn't run the risk of tearing them in class. But what was I supposed to do? Buy a new pair of shoes at 9 o'clock? No. Instead, I, the genius, used as much double sided tape as I could to get the sole back onto the shoe. I couldn't sew it, because the fabric was too thick for a non-machine to sew it. All was well, and my shoe did not come off at the audition. Joy!
The audition was pretty good. I knew some people there, from my ballet school, and from other summer intensives, so i wasn't one of those girls making shifty eyes and looking lonely in the warm-up room. The pianist for the audition class plays at my ballet school, so i had the advantage of knowing which pieces she would play (LOL). One girl was doing FOUETTE TURNS in the warm-up room, which was just stupid because it was sort of crowded, and fouettes are NOT for warm-up. I just worked with my resistance band so I looked like a diligent ballet student. :)
We were supposed to wear black leotards, pink tights and pink slippers, but one girl wore burgundy and another wore black shoes (I call that audition suicide). There were 62 people in my audition class. I was number 55. It was pretty easy, and some of the combinations were even boring. However, I only just started pirouettes en dedan, so those weren't superb. One judge looked at me when I made a mistake at the barre and wrote something on her clipboard, but then she looked at me again when I did something AMAZING, and wrote something down.
So for a first audition, I wasn't too shabby. Results come in 7-10 days, so I'll keep you guys posted!
Karen
Last night, I had to face probably the most stressful part of an audition: the arabesque photo. It took half an hour to get some and only one worked out. The flash on our camera gave the shot a 5 million bajillion second delay, so I'd fall out of my arabesque as soon as the picture was snapped. Eventually, we managed to get the flash off, and I changed just posing in arabesque to just pique-ing to arabesque, and agreed that my mom would snap the picture on "2" of my "3, 2, 1" countdown. In the end, my picture still came out slightly blurry and my back is sore from last night
I also observed during class last night that the sole of one of my soft slippers was pulling away from the rest of the shoe. I was really angry. I had a nice black leo for the audition. I even bought a new pair of tights last week, but wore my old, dingy pairs with holes in them during class this week just so I wouldn't run the risk of tearing them in class. But what was I supposed to do? Buy a new pair of shoes at 9 o'clock? No. Instead, I, the genius, used as much double sided tape as I could to get the sole back onto the shoe. I couldn't sew it, because the fabric was too thick for a non-machine to sew it. All was well, and my shoe did not come off at the audition. Joy!
The audition was pretty good. I knew some people there, from my ballet school, and from other summer intensives, so i wasn't one of those girls making shifty eyes and looking lonely in the warm-up room. The pianist for the audition class plays at my ballet school, so i had the advantage of knowing which pieces she would play (LOL). One girl was doing FOUETTE TURNS in the warm-up room, which was just stupid because it was sort of crowded, and fouettes are NOT for warm-up. I just worked with my resistance band so I looked like a diligent ballet student. :)
We were supposed to wear black leotards, pink tights and pink slippers, but one girl wore burgundy and another wore black shoes (I call that audition suicide). There were 62 people in my audition class. I was number 55. It was pretty easy, and some of the combinations were even boring. However, I only just started pirouettes en dedan, so those weren't superb. One judge looked at me when I made a mistake at the barre and wrote something on her clipboard, but then she looked at me again when I did something AMAZING, and wrote something down.
So for a first audition, I wasn't too shabby. Results come in 7-10 days, so I'll keep you guys posted!
Karen
