Pavan- first week!!

ok so i'm just gonna do like little (ya- it didn't turn out so little...) review of pavan just to give u an idea of how obsessed with dancing i am and how much fun it is!

Attire:
black leotard
pink tights
shorts/skirt (only after ballet class)

Hair:
ALWAYS a clean bun- usually alot of hairspray and bobby pins to keep it in place

Stuff i always need:
DANCE SHOES!! (ballet soft shoes, pointe shoes, black jazz shoes, tan jazz shoes, flat tap shoes, heel tap shoes)
leg warmers
sweatshirt
ipod
camera
money
book (right now City of Bones- part of the mortal instruments series and REALLY good if u into fantasy which everyone seems to be right now!)
planner (to try to keep my life incredibly organized)
sunglasses
lunch

Schedule during the typical day:
6am- wake up and get in the shower, go through daily routine, do hair, put on leo and tights with regular clothes over it (cuz we don't need ppl thinking dancers are ne weirder than we are!!)
7:20am- get on the bus at the middle school with annan and kitty, spread my bags EVERYWHERE!!
7:50am- pick up the loud obnoxious kids from the other school where i am forced to move all my bags. (annan and i have this theory that ppl don't like the dancers bcuz they won't sit newhere near us like we bite or something, which we don't just for the record! we think its from last year bcuz we spend the last 3 days at the regular high school so we can get used to the stage space and mark our pieces but...the theater kids think the stage is theirs so they don't want nebody on it even tho its out time slot to have it. so we got kicked off the stage last year and i'm really hoping that doesn't happen agian...)
8:45am- we arrive at the high school and i lug all my stuff off the bus and we sit outside (or inside depending on how hot it is) for one of the louden county buses to come and pick us up.
8:55am-we ride over to the shenandoah conservatory that has dance studio space
9:10am- we run into the studio (usually late from the bus ride)
9:10-10:45am- ballet class with a LIVE ACCOMPANIST!!! which is just mindblowingly amazing and really awesome!!! and we can't wear ne shorts or skirts in ballet class so i'm always freezing until we get warmed up. we usually spend 30 mins at the barr and then do a petite allegro, across the floor combos like leaps, work on turns, and then do a grande allegro with a reverence at the end.
10:45-12noon-we work on one of our performance pieces, usually the lyrical (lyrical is a combination of ballet and modern) piece that we are doing to apologize by timberland. its really fun and i like the choreography but its a bit sloppy bcuz ur so free to interpret the movement to make it ur own that sometimes it looks really bad but we have all next week to clean it. or we do our ballet piece sometimes that is really quite pretty. both of them back me pant and sweat but the tricky thing is is to make it look completely effortless...which is very hard sometimes!!
12noon-12:30pm- LUNCH!! get to sit and talk to annan and sarah, everyone else is so quiet and they never want to b in the conversations.
12:30-12:45pm- work on our other piece- just a runthrough to keep in fresh.
12:45-1:55pm- MY FAVORITE CLASS OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!! its a hip hop (ya not my fav- i look so white doing it but the good thing is that nobody is really good at it so...) and jazz class and its so much fun. we're doing a latin jazz piece and it really really really fast and precise and its so fun!!! but shes tough and really intense- i wish i could have her all year cuz i love her style and i feel like i'm getting better rather than not improving at all. so when we run through this piece, if we mess up we have to do 5 push ups for every time we messed up. i only did 5 yesterday but i'm pretty sure more push ups are in my future but there was one girl who spent practically the entire afternoon looking at the floor bcuz shes a ballet dancer and if felt so bad for her. its a great piece and SO FUN!!!
1:55pm- annan and i run out of the studio to make sure the bus doesn't leave us (we have to leave 20 mins b4 everyone else to get back to the hs and its so STUPID!!!)
2:10pm- wait for the rest of pavan to let out, annan and i usually change out of our clothes bcuz we are already really sweaty and sitting on a really loud bus with no air conditioning isn't my idea of fun
2:20pm- we leave for home, i read or listen to my ipod, or talk but usually i'm SO tired that i just don't want to form sentences! the stupid kids in the front makes TONS of noise and its so annoying that i just want to break the guitar they use to sing and just tell them to shut up!
3:36pm- back at the middle school!!!! and my day is done- i usually nap b4 going to swim practice or whatever else i have to do, go to bed at 10ish and wake up and do it all over again the next day!!!

5 MOST USED PHRASES IN PAVAN:
5) "girls!! remember ur posture- pull up, zip up ur ribs, hips facing forward, shoulders over hips. ur movement should come from ur legs, not ur torso!"
4) "use ur extremities- make them beautiful!!! it does u no good to have beautiful posture, arms and legs if ur paying no attention to the lines that are created with ur hands and feet. POINT UR FEET!!!!!!"
3) "use ur head- it should follow ur arm, engage ur viewer, make them want to watch u, dance with ur ENTIRE body, i want to c ur entire head move not just ur eyes!!!"
2) "when ur turning, feel that force pulling ur upper half up and keep it lifted while really PUSHING into the floor with ur feet!! USE UR SPOT GIRLS!!!"
and for the number one!!
1) "USE UR PLIE, UR MOVEMENTS, TURNS, BALANCES, EVERYTHING, WILL BE NOTHING WITHOUT A DEEP DEEP PLIE!!!!!!!!!!!"