Petite allegro

Crap.

Cara doesn't really give us much petite allegro in her ballet classes. She's never really liked petite allegro very much (she's 6 feet tall, so it's never really come easily to her), so she's kind of let it slip by the wayside. Of course, the result is that all of us really struggle whenever we have to do a petite allegro, which is problematic when her students audition for a part in the Nutcracker and then don't get it because it's all petite allegro. So every now and then she resolves to fix this and crushes us with it. There's one particular combination that's been cropping up every now and then for about a year and a half now. We call it simply Vivaldi; I'm sure you can guess why. =)

Vivaldi is horrific. It's very long and very fast. And unfortunately, Cara has always loved it on me. Arrrrr! When she chooses people to demonstrate it to the class, I'm always one of them. I know she's been toying with the idea of making me perform it for at least a year now, and I'm still slightly surprised that I didn't have to in the Summer Rep show last July.

So I was very glad to hear her announce last week that her Tuesday ballet class is to perform it in the spring recital. I just laughed. Suckers! I'm sooo glad I'm not in the Tuesday class! If they perform it, it will be over, and I'll be safe from it forever! Safe from performing it, at least. There will probably always be the chance of it continuing to haunt class.

But it looks like I'm not safe. NOOO! Cara's been threatening me with it. Apparently the fact that I don't take the class is no guarantee that I won't be in its dance. D'oh. Isn't there a constitutional amendment preventing that or something? We should definitely propose one! I didn't really worry too much about Cara's threats though. I figured she was just giving me a hard time for the fun of it. And then I ran into Carol-Anne tonight. She's gotten the official scoop from Cara, and it's no joke. Both she and I will have to be in it (I'm pretty sure she doesn't take the Tuesday class either). I guess it's going to be split up into sections; Carol-Anne and I will be the "leads", and the actual Tuesday class-ers will be the "chorus". Carol-Anne's pretty excited. She's never had a "special" part before, and figures she'll take what she gets. But I don't know. I don't actually mind the dance. I mean, it's long and brutal and turns me into a panting, wheezy ballerina, but other than that it's ok... =) But I'll already have to be in enough dances in the recital for the classes that I actually do take. There's the Monday/Wednesday class, which will be something from Midsummer Night's Dream (yay Mendelssohn!); and the pointe class is dancing to Blue Danube (I'd like to get out of this one too, but am pretty sure there's no chance of that either); and it's rumored that there will be 2 dances for the Saturday class (one of them is from Swan Lake, I don't know about the other). That's lots of dances! Maybe I can scam out of the 2nd Saturday dance. Or maybe she's teaming that up with Tuesday, and that's how she's getting me into Vivaldi? Though earlier she said that Tuesday and Saturday won't share a dance this year. (They did last year: the pirate dance.) Lots of dancing, lots of costume changes. Oy.

So who wants to come to the recital? =D