Long time no talk...

Wow it's so strange to go back and revisit all the things that happened way back when! Even if not many are still reading, it's interesting! Woohoo!

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To whom ever reads my blog:
I probably wont be blogging much anymore. i figure its best to just live my life because it has become more of a task to write my posts. i'm pretty sure audrey and mia are the only ones that read it, and they already know most of the stuff anyway.
If you have been following, thank you!
See you later guys.
-Lilia Deering <3

Sleepy Saturday

ballet started out really good today but by center i was just exhausted for no reason and couldn't focus. i left ballet like 10 minutes early (you can do that in open ballet). I decided i needed to sleep so i went in the back room and crashed for about half an hour. I got up and went to afro Brazilian after that. that Leo dude thats in my ballet class to it and he was ok. its gotta be hard if thats the first time you've ever tried anything like it. Anyway, AB was sooooo fun and i was really energized by the end which was good!

Last Show and a DB meeting

After ballet today the academy was scheduled to have a meeting with Artistic Director Donald Byrd. Kinda scary but i was anticipating it the whole class. In the meeting, we talked about how the year was going, DB told us what he rest of the year would be like, and we discussed how to improve the academy program (like adding dance history!!!). Afterwards, i changed into my black clothes and helped work the show. i thought i was supposed to do lighting today but it turns out that Kate wanted seneca to do it. :'( I swept the floor and set up chairs etc. and had a lot of fun anyway.

Thursday: Eva

Advanced contemporary today. I had to leave early, but we finished our dance for alice! yay! its really pretty good. im excited. not much to tell i guess since i had to skip choreo for my orchestra concert. couldn't find my choreo notebook anyway.

Amber!

Wednesday:

So today i had ballet which was good. it was a 5/6 class so it was on the easier side. about a week ago i was messing around with some echappes and i did this thing where i go to fifth on one side, then turn 180 degrees and go straight to second on the other side. my teacher saw, and now she uses it in a combo called the "Lilia."

That new guy in our class named Lio is really starting to improve! I hope he gets good enough to be in 5 next year. tha might not happen tho...

After ballet i went with audrey and sydney to starbucks and they got some coffee. when we got back to the studio, i noticed that i hadn't seen vincent around anywhere and he was supposed to be teaching the DB contemporary class! ahhh! i thought i was his last class this week! unfortunately he didn't show, but the good thing is, we had Amber instead.

Amber is another member of the company and shes a really good teacher. in her class we did a lot of the same combos (it was only me and mitch today >.<) but we went across the floor instead of doing choreography. What i like most about her class is that she connects a lot of the work to ballet stuff, she talks more about the DB style and how he likes to work, and she really personalizes her comments so that they are more useful.

After class she asked me how old i was and she thought i was 17ish. i get that A LOT!

Poopy Pirouettes and Buttinsky Buses.

Monday:
The bus that i usually ride got to my stop super late today so i had to sit in the cold for ages! when it finally did come, both seneca and paige were on it (usually its just paige). We rode the bus together for a couple of blocks but then, since there was another bus of the same route behind us, the bus driver made everyone get off since he was late and needed to turn around. We all got on the second bus which was fine except that when we were about a block away from our stop, Seneca realized that she had left her bike on the front of the first bus. She talked to the bus driver about it while paige and i walked from the bus to class. Seneca never showed up...
Barre was fine, but in center i just couldn't turn. i dont know why but i just sucked at it!!!!!!! it made me sad.

p.s. mitch didnt come to class so i got to stand in my own spot at the barre! yeeeeeeees.