Guest DancingBoi Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Okay, I started taking ballet classes at the beginning of this school year. For my first performance(Nutcracker stuff) I didn't really have a big part since I was still relatively new and stuff. Well since then I have improved and so for our spring performance the teacher felt I had advanced enough to have a variation! So since then I have been working really hard on the variation which has beated jumps, several turns almost half of which are doubles. I was also included in the coda part. But guess what? Yesterday I hurt my leg and today the doctor said that I wouldn't be able to dance in the performance which is TOMORROW. *sigh* Oh well, I guess stuff like this happens all the time. Link to comment
Administrators Victoria Leigh Posted April 23, 2004 Administrators Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 That is a shame, DancingBoi It's always very difficult when a dancer gets injured, especially at performance time. I think it might be a good idea to spend a bit of time trying to figure out what caused the injury, just to be sure that you were not trying to do things that are beyond your technical level. I can't quite imagine a male dancer, or ANY dancer, attempting any kind of classical variation with beats and turns, at the end of the their first year. Link to comment
Guest DancingBoi Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 I didn't consider that to be a factor initially because majority of the stuff included in the variation I do in ballet class on a regular basis. I believe the injury is a result of improper warm up and cooling down after rehearsals, which is my fault but I feel really guilty because now choreography has to be added to cover the parts where I was supposed to dance in the ensemble piece. Thanks for your help and I will keep you all posted on my recovery. Link to comment
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