The Nutcracker Auditions

So our school performs the Nutcracker every year in December. Our auditions are in August. Which, happened to be today.
DTI is like my second home now. I spend about half my life hanging out there, waiting for some class or another. It's pretty funny, actually. So today, August 28th, I went to the studio at 9:30, half an hour before class as they had instructed me to do so. So the audtion was one and a half hours long but we started late so I ended at 12. At the end of that class, the teachers told us who they wanted to stay for the acting callback. I was part of it, just like last year.
During the acting callback, we learned the Candlelight scene from the beginning, which requires acting, of course. In the beginning you act all frightened and then joyful once you see the doll. Of course, that wasn't how anyone was feeling while doing it. We had to do it one by one in front of three teachers and all of the students. Nervousness. All throughout it, I'm sure each single one of us was thinking "Oh my gosh everyone is staring at me. I need to get past this level. Oh shoot I made a mistake. But I need to keep smiling right now or else I'll never make it."
Well last year, I apparently did not do well because I did not continue any further than here. I'm sure you're expecting me to say now that I passed this year.
Well, you're wrong.












Naw, you're right.

I was one of the maybe ten or so chosen for the next acting callback. We still did Clara stuff, except we were being her in the Winter Wonderland scene. It was short. All we had to do were shenays (how's it spelled???) in and a sutenu (again, how?) and then a grande jete (I know how to spell that one! I think?). But the first step was hard since we had to spot looking up, and hold our arms out to the sides.
I learned this over the intensive, only this was simpler. Honestly I liked the other version better, but this was fine, too.
I don;t think I did very well in this. I didn't feel that same confidence as I had during the Intensive when I did it on my own, and my grande jete was sloppy. But I was the oldest in my group, and all of the older girls moved on so I don't really know how I did.
But anyway, I moved on even more, plus two really good ten year olds. The next thing was a pointe class. I'm not en pointe, but we still did it. It was a hard class since it was with the older girls, but I got it. Mostly.
After that, all of us passed to the next thing. We just did a small sample of the Russian dance. Two pique turns, ambuates (wow, I need to improve my French miserably), two more piques, and then shout "Hey!" Well it wasn't as easy as it sounds. It was fast and it was all turns. Pretty hard. But I almost got it.
And that was all the girls my level had to do. I passed everything.
Mostly, I think I did well. I have a feeling that I might get a lead role, such as lead lamb. It's the role I want desperately, and I have a really good chance.

~nat~