Unfortunately Bipolar

6:00am - Alarm
6:00:01am - S*** D*** H*** 
6:00:03am - Sleep
6:15am - Repeat
6:30am - Izzy and I arise and head down to breakfast. 

So that happened. Needless to say it was not the greatest start to a day.I did however end up going back to bed after breakfast for about an hour before getting up, getting ready and walking to the school for my first class. Jazz.

I have been waiting all year to take Lawrence Jackson's Advanced Jazz class again. It is a fabulous class that I took last year and I knew that I had to retake it. Jackson is a fabulously tall black man with legs out the ceiling. He teaches a glorious class full of leaps, turns, battements and ends with a fabulously sassy combination. I was in heaven. ( I honestly mostly just wanted to watch him kick and leap all day. Literally....legs out the ceiling. It is fantastically awesome and exciting in so many ways. Take that how you will. )

Jazz ends. Sad. Food happens. Happy.

The first (and only) informal concert started at 1:00pm. This is a concert full of dances that are not being judged but are just there to be performed and enjoyed. UVU had a piece in it and it was incredible. Not a terrible show. The U also did a piece that was remarkable.

Concert ended. Ballet began.

The more I take ballet the more I realize that I really do love it. Today I took a class from one of my former teachers are Weber and I remembered why she is the only person from Weber that I miss. It was EASILY the best ballet class I have ever taken. Just glorious. Fun, exciting, fast and ended with a good stretch. What else could a little dancer ask for? I also extended her the opportunity after class to tell me how much i've grown and how good UVU is making me,....shucks.....

After the ballet class we headed back to the theatre to tech our 12 min. piece in 18min. Man. That was just a joy.

Skipping ahead.

Concert is supposed to start at 8:30pm.

At 7:45pm we are all in the dressing room, taking our time, mostly not dressed and doing our makeup when we get a special announcement, "Standing by UVU, on deck SUU." WHAT!??!! Apparently the show starts at 8:00. We all begin panicking, stripping off our clothes and into costume and running upstairs to attempt to warm up before we open the show.

Alas, fear not. A mixture of long winded judges and idiot stage hands just muffed it up. The show did not start until almost 9:00. Ugh. Frustrated. The piece happened. It was fine. yadda yadda.

The rest of the show happened. I was pleasantly surprised with how good all the dances were. The standout (for me anyways) was Izzy's piece. He is a student at UVU and choreographed such an amazing workshop study in school that the teachers asked him to finish it and take it to ACDFA. It is a trio of three girls and is absolutely outstanding. Incredible choreography and dancing. So excited to see if he makes it into the Gala on Friday.

I should explain. All the pieces in the concerts are being adjudicated and friday after noon they will pick the best pieces to be performed again in a closing night Gala. End explanation.

I highly doubt our piece will make it in but I wouldn't be surprised if Izzy's did. Hurray Izzy. Whatever. You all know how much I love it when someone else is getting all the praise and admiration. Cue Dixon sitting at the back of the bus slowing slitting his wrist and plotting revenge while everyone applauds Izzy into his seat. I'm going to go so far in this profession.

End of day. It is most unfortunate that I do not have more to write about. I'd like to be sorry about it but it is just not in my nature. I had a fun day that was oddly relaxing. Got some good classes in, met some fun people (and by met I mean I didn't completely ignore them when they tried to make friendly small talk), again got to see and dance with some old friends and watch some really nice dancing. An all together good day. Tomorrow we do it all again. Oh the life.

Hope all is well. But who cares.

Dixon