Holiday showing off

So. Holiday show number. This...will be interesting. In a good way, mostly, I think.

Pros:

• There are 14 of us (I am astonished one could find 14 adult skaters in Nashville...), so there will always be someone other than me to look at!


• The spotlight moments, so far, are all duets and trios. I'm part of a trio with another woman who's basically at my level and someone a notch higher than us. *whew*


• Three of the other skaters have been my class teachers in the past, so I know people!


• With one exception, there's nothing in the minute choreographed so far that I can't do reasonably well. It's pretty much crossovers, stroking, spirals, and T-stops. *whew again* Of course, there are still five minutes left to go.


• It's going to be super cheesy, but in a fun way. For example, we're all going to come out holding a big cardboard letter each from "White Christmas" (luckily there are just enough of us to do this), stand in two lines with "White" in front and "Christmas" in back, and then as bells chime in the music, pop up and down so the words alternate. Silly, yes, but we'll get some laughs, I'm sure.


• Part of the number will involve partnering. This makes my former ballroom dancer's heart go pitter pat. (It makes the safety conscious part of me go ohshit and envision multi-person crashes, but I'll ignore that for now.)

Cons:

• I have to do a two-foot spin. Have I mentioned how wretched my two-foot spin is? The upside is that it's for a very short amount of time, so I can sort of pretend...okay, even I can't fool myself that it's going to look like I deliberately cut it short rather than ran out of steam, but at least I won't be looking ridiculous for too long. (Maybe I can practice it a lot and get it to an acceptable state. Maybe pigs will grow wings.)


• Next week's rehearsal will involve three turns, mohawks, swing rolls, and chasses. Homework for this week: Figure out WTF swing rolls and chasses are.


• The costumes are going to look like this, only less obviously Mrs. Claus-y. Possibly we'll have mixed colors rather than all red (I'm gunning for blue, myself). Won't lie, I was really hoping for black leggings and a white shirt or something like that. Oh, well. I was somewhat worried we might be wearing something along the lines of this, so there's a blessing.

Several of us are getting together at someone's house next weekend to watch the movie. And to drink, apparently. Lots of people volunteered to bring alcohol. YAY I AM BEING SOCIAL AND GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE OMG.

In class today, we did lunges and shoot the ducks. My lunges have improved rather a lot since I last seriously tried one. Stretching works, apparently. On the other end of the spectrum, every one of my shoot the duck attempts ended with me flat on my back, minus the one where I didn't really crouch so much as make a token attempt at bending my knees.

Between this and the extra hour of rehearsal, my thighs are now basically made of jelly. Ow.