Just keep swimming...

Not anything crazy interesting to report...
right now it's in a weird area, cause we don't have a performance coming up,
but Ecole Nationale de Cirque auditions as well as the Ecole de Cirque Quebec auditions are at the end of February.
Some of us are preparing for that, so that's a slow simmering anticipation, rather than an immediate boiling one.
I'm working on a new trapeze act which will in its entirety be my new happy performable trapeze act, and in its 3 minute or less version, be my audition act for ENC and Quebec. Jamie has been really great working with me on it, we have been picking little transitions and figuring out more interesting ways of doing things.

Yesterday we had our mid-program physical assessment. At the very beginning of the program, we were assessed in many many physical strength and flexibility measures: i.e. how many pullups, straddle ups, how long can you hold an L-sit...as well as how low to the ground is your split, how low is your straddle, how bendy is your back...
So, yesterday was the exact same assessment, to see how far we've come in various areas and what we might still need to work on. I improved almost all of the strengthy ones, except for the Wall sit, which I utterly failed on.. grrrr. I still was the LONGEST HOLLOW BODY holder in the class, which made me happy. It was near 3 minutes. My splits have dropped, my Left leg one is near the ground, my right leg one is better, but not near the ground. My straddle is almost entirely on the ground.

Last night, AFTER the physical assessment and my trapeze private, we had Lyra/Sling class, where Caroline started me on her 12 step program to learning some cool release moves. Sadly the first step, was a few different kinds of pullups, so after my body was abused and dead from the day, I had to do PULLUPS for pretty much the entire class. HAAHAAHAA *sob sobsob*...

Anyway, I woke up this morning, my abs feel like hell, and I'm ready to read me some Harry Potter :)

All's Quiet on the Circus Front

So, it's been an interesting past little bit of time since we've returned from the holiday break. On the first day back in class, I had a private in Trapeze with Jamie and we were focusing on release moves (power moves where you let go of the bar to perform an acrobatic movement and re-catch the bar with either your hands, ankles, or other ways of grabbing the bar).
This was going well until all of a sudden, my hands ripped off of themselves.
To sum it up, all that time working on fabric for the Flying Nut show, meant that my trapeze calluses lost some of their vigor. So the first day back, deciding to do hardcore release-y trapeze....maybe not the best choice.

Conveniently however, I was out of town for the rest of the week, so I had a slight chance to rest my hands. Now, they are almost completely healed, and yesterday I had a trapeze private with Jamie and we worked on my upcoming new trapeze act, and it was fine. I taped my hands so that the healing rips wouldn't un-heal any, and we worked on combining tricks I can do, tricks I can learn to do, and really started forward motion on my "Apologize" trapeze act. Also...a picture of something I thought looked really ugly on me, but apparently it doesn't. There goes my sense of accurate self perception. Picture below: