Day 5

Today was a good end to the week. We had floor barre with Mr. Lar Lubovitch himself! He is such a unique individual! Floor barre was a new type of conditioning for me. Although I have worked on floor barre a lot I feel as though I got a different experience when doing it today. Something that I noticed was that doing the floor barre and laying on the floor really helped inform my muscular structure of my back and shoulders. My upper body organization of my shoulders was beginning to feel what I was trying so hard to get it to feel today. I felt my back become very strengthened and engaged.

In ballet I noticed my shoulders really utilizing the new sensation I gained from floor barre. We did a bunch of combinations that were grounded, circular, and light with classical ballet as well as "Lar's" steps. Having the company members in class with us is a real treat. Not only do we have class with them, but we spend almost all day with them. They eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with us, teach us, take class with us, and are setting pieces on us.

We then had repertory with Attila who taught us part of a solo from the trio of three men. The solo was really hard for me to get into at first. I knew the steps but I didn't have any emotional connection coming out of it, until Attila demonstrated it for us. He told us that in those few minutes he was dancing he was telling his story, and by the end of it we should know more about him then we thought we did before. He was definitely right about that. I felt something in his dancing that I did not have in my attempt. When he was finished he said he was embarrassed. He felt as though he had exposed himself to us and given us a part of himself that is in a deep region of his emotional spirit. Then, a weird thing happened. I tapped into that place he was in when doing it. I messed up a lot of the steps in the process because of this, but by the end of it I felt as though I was feeling a feeling that I didn't want to feel expressed in my solo, maybe depicting an experience in my past. Even though I wasn't the one who stood out the most, or had the best interpretation of it, I felt something I haven't encountered in a long time if ever. Attila said that you have to pull something out within yourself and make it yours...and I feel as though I pulled something out that I can now use in the future.

Then we went to the Lecture/Demonstration and saw Lar Lubovitch perform Legend of Ten We then decided to have a girls night out. We went downtown and immediately approached a drum circle. Us being typical dancers were attracted to it, so we went over. Liz and Ashleyanne started dancing with the drummers, and let me tell you it was crazy dancing! It was so crazy that the company members saw us while driving by and yelled out at us, parked their car, and walked over to us to see what the riot was about. It was quite hysterical. Not only did the company members come over to the circle, but a huge audience came over and started watching! That is an experience I am not going to forget! Then we tried to find an 18 and over bar or something fun to go to, but literally nothing in Saratoga is made for people under 21! It sucks! So we ended up at this Chinese/Thai/Japanese restaurant that had live music.