dance recital '09

This past Saturday was my dance recital! I was pretty nervous the night before and the morning of, but by the time the actual performance rolled around, I just sort of threw it all out the window and decided: if I mess everything up, so be it. Heh. I wasn't worried about the jazz routine, but I'd been having some problems with the hip-hop one.

We performed the jazz piece first, and it went fine, just as it should. We had one number in between for us to quickly change, then come back out for our hip-hop routine. It ended up going fabulously. I didn't even come close to messing up on anything, it all just sort of . . . flowed. I had so much fun. Hip-hop = my favorite kind of dancing. Afterward, a lot of people told me that it was their favorite number from the recital, even. Yay!

The week before, mum came to rehearsal and snapped some photos.

The tappers of "Singin' in the Rain":

A sea of umbrellas:

Annnd a bubble of them:

Dancing to "Golden Years" for our hip-hop routine:

Moon-walking!

:)

love.

Today I helped a friend film a scene for his audition tape for a short film he's trying out for and I am just basically in love with filming and being an actor and getting to do what I love.

That is all.

Quotes: Amy Adams

"I was too consumed with the ins and outs of my career as opposed to enjoying the work. Doing Junebug helped me really get back to enjoying the work and realizing that I do want to be an actress, and if that means nobody ever sees anything I do, that’s got to be okay. If that means I teach during the day and do a play at night, that’s got to be okay. I had to stop defining success by how society defines success."

"I still get completely weirded out working with these people I saw in movies growing up. I’m like, ‘I need to be so professional.’ I turn into a bit of a try-hard, you know."

(on roles she's attracted to) "There’s something about the destruction of innocence that I find fascinating."

"I find that recently I've been playing characters who have questions of faith. It's been interesting to examine why that keeps popping up. And not just faith in God--faith in themselves, faith in somebody else."

"While Charlie Wilson's War and Enchanted are obviously very different, they're both about people who have an ultimate belief that things are going to turn out great. And I think that is something we need in the world today--it's something we're lacking. We live in a world where cynicism is confused with intelligence."

~Amy Adams

song and dance

I don't think I've mentioned this here, but in January I started taking voice lessons. I'm taking them from Tina (musical director for Fiddler on the Roof, "Mama" in I Remember Mama), who rocks. I've only been taking them every other week, so I haven't had a ton of lessons yet. We've been working on the song "How Could I Know?" from The Secret Garden, which is lovely. She also helped me out with my song for the High School Musical audition. Already I can feel how much my voice has grown.Dance class is going very well . . . we are hard at work finishing up/polishing our routines for the upcoming recital. Two more classes, one dress rehearsal, and then we perform on the 25th! I'm having a good time tap-tap-tapping in "Singin' in the Rain," our jazz piece. So far, no one's gotten an eye poked out by one of the numerous umbrellas used in that piece, heh. Learning how to moonwalk for our hip-hop routine (to David Bowie's "Golden Years") was way cool. (I moonwalk in the kitchen all the time now . . . once you learn, it's really easy and addicting because it's such fun.)

makeover

backstage musings has a new design/layout.

thoughts?

*edit*
I'm also thinking of getting a new title, since my acting isn't just stage stuff anymore; I'm doing film as well. Any suggestions would be most welcome...