17/11

Oh I feel so bad I haven't written in quite a few days. I have just been caught up in everything here. I have a lot of work right now. No matter what I do there is always something else for me to do. I have grown to love my scene more and more, my partners are great and I'm learning so much about myself through the character which is exactly what you want. I do have to go to bed but a quick update on my world here. I saw Beauty and the Beast in Russian the musical. It was fun which is exactly what it is suppossed to be. I also saw a beautiful production called Daemon. We had to watch from the cat walks but it completely kept my attention. There were no words it was all like an art piece. The stage was covered tin mutiple layers of paper and each scene- although they weren't scenes more like images, ideas, thouhts- was painted on to the stage. The space is self was a circular tower and the staged lowered itself down to the bottom so we were all no matter where you were sitting looking from above. To me it was the story of life, to others it was individual scenes, either way it was a beautiful moving piece of theater. Last night I saw a piece called Carmen, which was a student modern dance piece based on the Opera. It was really good, I enjoyed it alot. The dancing was definitly modern, it was a movement pased piece where one action would triger another reaction in both your body and your partners. I'm always interested how these types of pieces are built, whether it comes mainly from choreography or improve.
I still have plans to finish about Petersberg I just haven't gotten there yet. Its on my list for tomorrow
My shoulders are doing a little better but I still have to numb them every night. We added handstands to our lists of tricks so they are even more important. My body hurts though my ballet teacher added a duet for my friend Liz and I to do and it is really hard lots of turns and lots of balance so my core is being very worked. I love it though. Still everyday I walk home from school and I'm so happy about every sore muscle and special pleasure I'm experincing. I do miss you all though and while I don't feel like I have enough time left I want to see you.
Hope all is well in the states!!!
Love
Kirsten