Le Conservatoire

Just a bunch of dancers standing in B-plus


I'm in the middle between Olivia and Em. High bun in the midst of the low ones.

Last class...

So today, we pre-pros/trainees were taught our last class at my ballet school. Most of the company have been gone for a while. I am SO excited for the month of June to arrive with our ensemble auditions for next season.


Today after last class: Arabesque. In jeans. On an incline...yah that's right.

However, I still have our showcase performance on Thursday to look forward to. We are doing Konservetoriet, a Bournonville ballet (a.k.a. Le Conservatoire in French) as well as a couple of other pieces.

The image in my blog page header shows the costumes we are wearing for this ballet (yes, that is from a real photo of the preprofessionals at my company before a performance; that is me at the far left. Our costumes are so Degas-like...I love it.)

Happy birthday, Mr. Tchaikovsky

I totally LOVE Google's logo for today, May 7, 2010.


The word "Google" depicted as a scene from Swan Lake


How fun to log on to my laptop this evening and see Google's beautiful logo celebrating the 170th birthday of the amazing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

I've been in The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. So, one day maybe.. Swan Lake? That would make a triple-Tchaikovsky sweep.


:D

When I was little...

Backstage at Nutcracker 2001 (Daisy)


Hey, at least I was in Waltz of The Flowers. :D


One afternoon when I was maybe three or four, my mom had somewhere to take one of my little brothers, so my dad was in charge of getting me to ballet class that day.

He asked me - "so Madeline, what are you supposed to wear to this class?" I said "Mommy puts my leotards and tights in the top dresser drawer." He looked through everything in that dresser, and then finally said - "ok, I don't know what a leotard is."

Hahahaha! I love my dad.