Very Odd

It is so very odd.
I'm on BREAK finally, and all I want to do is train.

The Flying Nut (Necca's nutcracker-esque winter holiday show) is now over. We had a weekend of sold out performances. Our act was very well received by the audience. It was sad, cause I think as a group, a lot of us were mentally OVER the act, so it was hard to actually appreciate the praise of the act. It was a fun last weekend in Vermont for a little bit. We had our Secret Santa party on Saturday night, where everyone gave their final gift out revealing who they were (lots of socks were given, Dumbledore would have loved it).

All the costume work I did was well received as well.
In total, I made the giant skirt for Mother Ginger (see post below), made the pattern for the Fire group's multiple size tank tops, along with Jamie: made the entire set of 12 silver torso snuggs with appliqued silver stars on them for our Intensive fabric piece...am I forgetting something... OH YEAH!
I created an entirely new costume for Katie who was playing the sun in less than 1 day.
Katie who is in intensives was also given a role as the Sun, to do a duet piece with the girl playing the Moon (Emily). Emily shows up with this amazing costume she had made, and Katie was wearing this smirkus-esque hobo-esque unitard. So, I swooped in and masochistically decided to make an entirely new costume for her.
Voila...

Tech Week for The Nut

Hello people who are reading.
It's been a busy past few weeks.
The annual holiday wintery Nutcracker story performance at the circus school is upon us.
It is called "The Flying Nut" and this year it is being adapted to be about a boy who gets lost in the woods and finds all these woodsy creatures and stuff to entertain him (instead of a girl who finds candyland).
My program (Intensives) are 12 people, so we got brainstormed from the zodiac, into the night sky (stars). More specifically, we 12 are the weavers of the night sky. On a crazy amount of aerial fabrics, we fly and twirl and twist and lift as we weave around making all the stars.

Our piece was very hectic a few weeks ago, and we all were very pessimistic about its outcome. But it has really cleaned up, and people who watch it now are really into it, and getting taken away into our magical night sky world.

Having said all that, I AM EXHAUSTED, naturally, because of being one of the people more comfortable on aerial fabric, I am involved for almost the entire act (while some people are involved for segments of the act), I am multiple times, running to a fabric, climbing to the top, wrapping a catcher's lock (a position where you can pretty much lock yourself onto the fabric around your legs without needing to hold on with your arms), and then having someone lifted up by my arms, or they climb the fabric that is now wrapped around my body.
My hips had a big shock when we first started rehearsing, cause they are used to me holding myself up by them, but not so used to me holding both myself and the weight of another person as well. It put a lot of stress on my hip and for a couple weeks recently, my hip has really hurt me, and I had to take some time off of doing the tricks that really hurt my hip.
It is now better, and I've been given some very good advice from my coaches about how to protect my hip joints better when basing off of them.

In addition to performing in the group fabric act, my sewing/costuming talents have been put to good use, helping make some of the more intriguing costumes of the show. My favorite costume so far has been the Mother Ginger character costume. Mother Ginger (for those who forget) is the woman who has the GIGANTIC skirt that all the children come out of. With no budget, and some ingenuity, I "project runway"d a skirt big enough to hold people to go around a performer on stilts.

My lovely costuming intern, Suzannah Lowry.

More on all this later.

I'm off to take a nap.

Update on my life...

Hey everyone, sorry for the absence lately,
I was gone for thanksgiving, and then the week I came back was just hectic, but here's a quicky update on stuff, and this weekend, I'll post more.
Thanksgiving was low-key I got to see my mom, stepdad, and my best friend Sari.
I came back, and we got right back into rehearsing the Intensive program's act for the NECCA winter holiday show The Flying Nut (the Nutcracker story told through circus).
I ended up having a completely random opportunity to babysit for some circus performers' children while a bunch of NECCA staff performed at Mohegan Sun in CT.
So i got to watch some kids and then spend the night at Mohegan Sun for free (and got money for the babysitting). Seriously, not a bad deal.
On the way home, we stopped at OSGOODS which is THE fabric store to go to around here apparently.
I got about 60$ worth of fabric (including my most expensive fabric yet, 18$ per yard, but I bought that for a costume for myself, so I consider it worth it).
This weekend was pretty lame-o. Just worked at Fireworks a lot.
This week has started off with a painful bang, my right hip is REALLY hurting because of these frequest abuses rehearsals we have for the Flying Nut, I need to figure out some changes that I can make to protect it.
More soon...