This week’s auditions
STREB + Gina Gibney Dance
The Gina Gibney Dance audition was your basic, “You are all wonderful dancers, we so appreciate you sharing your beautiful art with us, but unfortunately you suck.” It was fine. I didn’t do bad at all. The movement was fine. There was a phrase, it was a nice phrase, then we did a walking phrase, it was nice too, then there was some floppy across the floor thing that you couldn’t really do because there wasn’t enough room and then partnering and improv. The only thing I really bombed on was the partnering, which is surprising considering I consider that my strong suit AND Philip who I dance with normally was my partner. I kept falling over for some reason. I think I was just exploring a little too much and should have been concentrating on doing the combo right instead…but I wasn’t really into that. :) Or it could have just been it has been about a month since someone had climbed on me and my muscles were suprised. Or it could have just been I suck. But you never really know. Gina didn’t like me last time I auditioned either and I did better at that audition, so I don’t know why I went again. And then we did some improv, which of course I rocked. :)
The STREB audition on the other hand was absolutely amazing. It was so fun. My body is crying still after 1 day off from it. I think I strained my neck. Maybe it was the back roll into the head stand, turn on your head and smack into the floor? Or it could have been when the trampoline beat my ass the final day, or it could have been when I slammed my self into the floor for the 100th time in a row (on purpose). It was VERY fun and super high adreniline the whole time. It was a 3 hour audition for 3 days in a row involving pop-action technique. Pop-action is Elizabeth Streb’s own technique that has to be done on gymnastic mats because you pop up and slam yourself into the mat a million times in a row as fast as you can - idealy you are making your body as ridgid as possible, usually in a plank position, so that you don’t jar anything, keyword, ideally. So each day would start with some pop-action, then we would move into tumbling involving forward rolls, back rolls, launching yourself into the air and slamming your body onto the mat (on purpose), candlesticks (arms over head, pelvis and feet extended toward the ceiling), tuck jump, dive roll, flip and plank to mat, hop on you hands and toes to the left 2x and then right 2x and then squat, stand and flat back, head stand in an ‘L’ shape, pop the body off the ground and land on your back in an ‘L’ shape, sit up, try to stand up while keeping your legs straight, trust fall back all the way to the mat and then roll backwards into a full head stand then twist your body around to face up and slam into the ground. FUN! Then we would do stations. The stations were trampoline, truss (scafolding type ariel apparatus), mini tramp or floor tumbling, and “wall” (slamming or launching yourself onto a wall and slamming yourself into the floor or hanging from a bar on the wall until someone else could slam into you). The first day was rough, mainly because you didn’t know what to expect and were just learning, but the second day was awesome, because we basically did all the same stuff and just bumped it up one level, and then the 3rd day was insane, they kinda bumped it up 4 levels and people were dropping like flies. :) I however did great (for myself anyway) not great enough to be in the company, but I think it was a very awesome “workshop” audition and the people were all super nice and awesome. So, go take class at STREB or see their show or audition for them, cuz it is fun. Oh and one day we got to jump off a 16 or so foot platform and slam into the floor on your back (i.e. looking at the ceiling)…so SCARY! It was awesome. :)
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