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.