So I'm home and it's exciting, but still kinda sad. The final Nutcracker performance was filled with crying and flowers and guys confessing their love for me to me. I cried alot, and saying "Goodbye", I have decided is not one of my favorite things to do. They gave a toast for me at the cast party, and everyone started crying. Crying made the ( Read more... )

So, Nutcracker peformances have been going really well, I'm super tired though. Last night after the performance, I was signing autographs, and this guy came up and he had like a billion complements for me. He told me that he watched me in every dance, and that I was amazing, etc., anyways, it made me feel really good. I thought my feet were going ( Read more... )

I cannot wait to get home tomorrow! I haven't seen so many people in so long ( Read more... )

Nutcracker rehearsals are getting really intense. My feet are like black and blue, and I have never had so many blisters on my feet in my life. I love my tutu though, it's a big black one with white lace and black sequins and I get a feather duster. Yea! I love tutus!!!!!! I get to wear it around the Biltmore Estate this weekend for the Tea. All ( Read more... )

I found out my parts a couple days ago for Nutcracker, and they are.... My solo- HEAD MAID YEA! I get to partner with Lyle(another guy dancer at the studio). I open up the show with my solo. Like, the curtain comes up at the beginning, I'm the only one on the stage, and I dance by myself for like 3 minutes, then I dance with Lyle for a long time, ( Read more... )

The rock ballet "Anna" was absolutely fantastic!!! I loved every minute of it. Dancing to live music, having people tell you how wonderful you are, and getting flowers and stickers from people you hardly know is awesome too! lol. My parents came up to see it, and loved it! They stayed for two days, and I got to show them around downtown Asheville ( Read more... )

So, ASHEVILLE IS SOOOOOO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!! There are soooo many things to do, and the community is very into the different kinds of arts including dance! Yea! There's always fun stuff to do on the weekends, like dancing to live bands downtown/ teaching Daniel how to salsa dance, that was hilarious and you can so tell he's a ballet dancer, or ( Read more... )

So, everything is going great here in Asheville. The people I'm staying with are totally awesome! Sara is really cool, and she has a brother that's my age named Daniel. We all went to a ballet last night by another company that's here in Asheville. The ballet was contemporary, and they all wore like black leather and stuff. THEIR COMPANY FRIEKIN ( Read more... )

So, dance camp was friekin awesome! I absolutely loved all of my classes, and I got a short pointe solo in our performance. All of my teachers were awesome! They had all danced in New York and other big dance places, and they are all members of the Asheville Ballet Dance Company ( Read more... )

Well, I'm leaving for dance camp now. I'm kinda nervous, but oh well I'll get over it! We totally have to hang out when I come home Kati! LOve y'all! PEACE~