The slip of my ball gown even caught on the heal of my "stage partner's" character shoe during one matinee and was pulled down to my ankles. Yes, it was a funny situation.but I was thrilled to take part in my first ballet!Īnyway, to make a long story short, those were stressful weeks, being in an onstage performance at a university theater, and having lots of new systems and routines to learn quickly. It was a little awkward, as most of the other parents, were, well.real parents. I made it into the performance as."a parent." I'd started taking lessons so much later than the younger girls in my classes, and was so tall compared to my peers (who were being cast as Russian dancers, soldiers, or sugar plum fairies), that the only role the directors could use me in, was as a parent at the Christmas party where Clara gets her nutcracker. I auditioned for the Nutcracker (which the Utah Valley Regional Ballet Company would put on every year). When I was fourteen I was a gangly, late-blooming wanna-be ballerina.
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