I survived!

I survived my dance performance!! I must say, it was one of the scariest things I've done as of yet. Yikes! The first night, I couldn't even smile on stage because I was shaking so much my lips wouldn't move. Definitely served the purpose of distracting me from school, rather too well actually. But hey, I did it, even had a little bit of fun, and didn't fall over on stage!

Here is Rinley helping me practice

Emily made this hairpiece to go with the dress.

Jenise got these pictures from the Saturday performance

Dress Rehearsal

I have a full video of the dress rehearsal. It didnt go very well, and my hair and makup isnt done, but it is the full dance with the lights and all, so... Eventually, I will get a copy of the official video and try to post it, but it may be a while, so this is what Ive got so far.

Performance night

This is the second half

Katherine snuck a video of my performance on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately her camera ran out of memory. It is actually kind of funny where it shut off. She managed to get most of it, but the stupid thing shut off perfectly in time to miss the two most dramatic parts of the routine, the lift and the dip. Oh well.....

This is the first half

Dancing...progress?

I'm basically posting this because my computer is stupid and I can't watch it without downloading something (it worked just fine yesterday!) but I can't download anything without getting tech support to do it since it is a school computer and... yeah. And I need to watch this horrid thing because as you might notice, I don't have a clue what I'm doing and I need to figure it out!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Wanna laugh at me?

I'm putting this up here purely for the self mockery, and it won't stay long because I can't stand it actually. But, this is what I look like at the beginning of my lessons. Like I have absolutely no clue what I am doing! Can you tell?

So, we can just hope a) learn something (not really a problem since Walter is a decent teacher), but will I learn enough not to look like a total dork? b) get over myself and get some confidence so I can actually so the stuff I learn. c) not hurt myself in the process. By the way, this has very definitely accomplished one goal. I am quite distracted from the stresses of school (which is quite a feat since it is all rather stressful at the moment). I cant sleep now because I'm thinking about dancing fears. weeeee!