It's another week and another lari earned. Not a lot of news to report from this week's activities. From Romeo and Juliet and Giselle, we have had a complete change of pace and are presenting a Jiri Kylian triple bill on the 20, 21 and 22nd. The casting only really requires six boys for the entire show which doesn't leave me much to do. I'm only understudying a piece called Sechs Tanses which is a humorous set of dances set to Mozart. It's quite an amusing piece that has been fun to learn, but I think it very unlikely at this stage that they will need me to perform it. I wasn't able to find a video of Sechs Tanses, but did find this amusing video that is choreographed by Kylian and has a very similar theme.
Though I haven't been doing much in the afternoons, with my leg performing almost back at full strength I've been putting a lot of energy into classes and been really enjoying them. The classes here have a lot more Grand Allegro in them than I'm used to. But I really enjoy all the extra jumping and am hoping that all the extra work will add a bit of height to my jump.
The biggest news of this week is that the company will be taking Giselle on tour in two weeks. It's only a short tour that will last about a week and visit the Black Sea city of Batumi. Apparently we are also going to be visiting another city on the way but I don't know what it is yet. That's the way with so many things in this company. Because of the language barrier the only way we have of finding out what is going on is by word of mouth and everyone knows the Chinese Whispers effect.
I've just been interrupted by our land lady who has just taken us to our new wash room. This is very exciting as the old one used to be at the end of a hundred meter corridor on the second floor and had one tiny front-loader. This was becoming a bit of problem with six dancers living in the building generating enough washing to keep the tiny machine running around the clock. The new wash room is in the basement bunker. And when I say bunker, I mean two solid steal doors with two walls each over a foot thick! Noise reduction features aside the jewels of the room are the two massive industrial washing machines. Yippee!
That's all the big news for this week. I'm sorry that I didn't get the photos up last week but there only a couple which wasn't enough to make an album of. We are all going for a walk soon and I'll take my camera so I hope to have some new stuff up soon.
Till next week,
DreamChaser
Rodney Cuthbertson
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