Dance updates

Hey homedogs.

Advanced choreography adjunct is cool. Yesterday we had to lead improv . . . mine was easy: "You're filaments and the wall is MAGNETS! You don't want to get stuck but you're GONNA LOSE!"

I came up with the dopest floor move that I want to use in the Bowed Piano ensemble piece next semester. Don't want to ruin the pleasure of actually seeing it, but I'll tell you it comes with very specific injury - it rubs a chunk of flesh off the wrist and therefore I can't do it too much.

I played for them this "soundscape" song I was thinking of using for a duet. It's 37 minutes long and I wanted to choreograph 3 minutes or so and randomize the starting point of the dance for every performance. They all said I should do a whole show, a continuous one, with it because I loved the whole thing so much. They were like: "Would you be up to it?" and I was like: "Yeah, actually."

But next semester.

I finally told Jeff I'm overtrained and he got kind of horrified. So now he expects me to back off a ton. I may be burned out but I still love dance deep down to the mitochondria. Taking it easy is not something I'm particularly good at. I kind of wish I had a guardian figure who would yell at me if I was doing too much or going too hard.

My problem is that on the good days, I have enough energy to get things done, so I'll schedule that rehearsal, catch up on choreographing and push myself, do those three hours of research, visit a friend I haven't seen in forever -- what used to be normal stuff. Then for the next two days I am 10 pounds of poop in a 5 pound bag, to paraphrase. Some days are okay, and some days, like today, are really hard. Just going to class and walking to the library are painfully exhausting. Not to mention taking the stairs. Thank god I live on the ground floor. I can't relax. If I allow myself to take a break I just curl up into the Ball of Hurt.

So parents - could we please pony up for a few massages? Besides hot bath/cold bath therapy, which have been helpful, massage is the best thing I can be doing. It's in my textbook and the Olympic training center says so (we went there on a field trip today and the trainers said so.)

In other news,
Chelsea got swine flu and was quarantined for 3 days. Apparently the whole XC team is going to get it now.