Comings and Goings

With all the writing on my under-performing leg last week, I never mentioned that we had an American dancer join us last week. This morning, he left to return to America. He's a good dancer (very American in style) but he was just too short for the company. He came from New York on a similar deal to me; do company class and see what Nina thinks. I don't think that the company realised just how short he was because it was obvious to every one that his height would limit him to soloist roles without any partnering. He is a member of a company in Portland, but wanted to do some auditioning so he is going to back to good prospects. I don't think that he was very keen on living in Tbilisi either. This place is pretty orthodox and conservative which was a bit of a shock to a guy who has lived in New York for most of his life.

Today there should be a guy arriving from Kazakhstan. Apparently he is quite good, and I'm guessing that he will be more adept to living in Tbilisi than the American.There is also probably another boy coming from Egypt soon. So we will have the countries of Australia, England, Kazakhstan, and Egypt represented in Georgian ballet company! Who would have thought! It'll make next year's proposed tour to Israel interesting.

Work has been busy this weeek. I think I'm going need a computer to keep track of all the stuff I'm learning. We have a single performance of Don Quixote on Wednesday which as far as I know I'm cast in. That one is mainly Spanish style character dancing. Rehearsals for Siberia to Moscow have been going full blast. I got chucked into replace a boy on Saturday which was interesting. I had been watching the rehearsals so I sort of knew what he did, but was still was relying on traffic signals from the girls a bit. On Sunday we did an intense six hour run of the ballet. I was still replacing the boy which included doing a mime scene that I had never seen before! Just a bit of pressure! In to that full mixture we've also been doing some rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet. By the time we got out of work yesterday my brain felt like cold porridge dripping out my ears.

My leg is slowly getting better. Thank you to all of you who have been praying for me. I'm still avoiding jumping and pirouettes, but hope to be able to start gradually loading it back in this week. Your continued prayers would be much appreciated.

Thanks for reading

DeamChaser