First Week back at Waapa

This week was my first week back at Waapa, and i had very mixed feelings about it. I was happy to be back but also wished i was still at home a little. Wow was it an epic week. Tuesday I had an audition for the musical 'Wicked' which was fun. We learnt a dance from a scene in the show, the choreography was a bit strange but nothing i couldn't pick up or handle. I got a call back after that audition with two other dancers from Waapa, we just had to learn some lifts and stuff which was easy. They seemed quite shocked that I could do all the lifts, i was surprised because the lifts weren't hard they were just normal. I got a call last night asking if i could please prepare a song for another call back. It needs to be from a contemporary musical lucky, i have friends in the musical theatre department. I chose the song 'Corner of the sky' from the musical 'Pippin' its a nice song and i can hit all the notes which is nice. I also found out this week that i might be performing for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting when it comes to Perth. I would be performing with a few other Waapa students which should be an amazing experience, hopefully it happens. We started rehearsing a piece called 'Jabula' by the choreographer Natalie Weir who is the artistic director of Expression Dance Company. It is a beautiful piece and i really hope that we do it justice. I also start working with the West Australian Ballet Company on their season of 'The Taming of the Shrew' which should be fun. I have never seen the ballet before and look forward to it because i have heard great things about John Cranko's choreography. Quite frankly i have a ridiculously busy semester, and its going to go by so fast because i have so much on so i'm a little nervous but oh well. My good friend and photography Evan Dylan arrived in Perth the other day, and i'm currently sitting in this beautiful house he has rented out. We plan to take some amazing photos while he is here. So i will update with some pics when i get the chance.  
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My Dream Last Night

So i had the craziest dream last night, and i thought i have to document this and what better way than to put it on my blog.
It starts off with a group of us learning George Balanchine's serenade, which i just did at waapa. But it wasn't the serenade that i knew i think, also it wasn't all the kids from wappa that i did it with, it was with a lot of randoms. Somehow i was getting the spacing wrong or something i can't truly remember 100%. Once we had finished the ballet we went back to the kingdom hahahahaha i know weird. It wasn't just any kingdom our castle was inside a mountain and they had carved the mountain so it looked incredible. We were ballet crusaders i think because we got huge cheers from all the spectators who had come to welcome us home. We each took an individual bow, but then an Arab boy came up to take his bow and no one cheered. In my mind, this part was a bird's eye view and we zoomed out as the boy went up for his bow. I was so shocked that no one would cheer for him. So we decided to throw the queen (who looked like Aunt Marge from Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban) down a giant crack in the mountain. From where i was looking it looked spectacular. But apparently she got caught half way down so we decided to leave her there. After a few years we came back to her and pulled her up. She had somehow gotten hugely fat like in the movie again. I was still angry with her so i threw her off the cliff this time. This is where i woke up. I just thought it was so funny that i had to share it.        

Modeling

Have a look here for some modeling i did with Evan Dylan

Photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a few of my pics i wanted to share.

My holiday in Sydney

I thought for my first blog post it would be appropriate to start with my holiday in Sydney. Sydney is my home and my love, no matter where I end up in the world Sydney will always have a very special place in my heart. The weekend I got into Sydney was the weekend of my 19th birthday which was really nice, I love spending time with my family. Its amazing to be independent, but I do forget how much I miss them and enjoy their company. On my flight over we had an amazing experience, the captain announced over the speakers that if we looked out the right side of the plane we could see another plane flying 1000 feet away, in the picture it looks close but he said we were a very safe distance. The plane was emirates coming from Abu Dhabi. I had a family breakfast on the Sunday morning which was a little mean of mum, because she had set the time for the breakfast for 8am which in Perth time is 6am, which meant I had to be awake at 7am, so 5am Perth time, I was not a happy chappy... It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, being that early in the morning. The whole of my mum's side of the family was there which was amazing because I hadn't seen some of them for a long time. I spent the rest of that day with Mum and Lok my brother, we went shopping around the city and the Bondi markets which was awesome, I got some great new clothes. On the Tuesday I did class with one of my old teachers which was amazing because i hadn't seen her for a long time, she was impressed by my work which is really nice to hear. I spent the rest of my week doing class with Sydney Dance Company which was AMAZING, I have decided that i must join that company one day, I don't think i'm ready for it yet but hopefully in a few years i will be. It has been so wet and gross all week, really???? couldn't just for the one week i get to Sydney have nice weather please is that so much to ask?? Today (Saturday) i caught up with a friend that i met back when i was at the Australian ballet school. He is a model, it was so nice to see him because we haven't caught up for ever. He has had the most amazing experience modeling i wish that i was taller and more attractive so i could do that as well. He told me tales of the infamous New York city and it literally sounded like a fairy tale i was so super jealous. Tomorrow we are having a whole bunch of old family friends over for dinner to say hello and farewell to me which is going to be super nice. This whole blogging thing even though i have only just started is fun i cant wait to have something else to write about hahaha.