More classes!

I’m back to dance classes, today!

First, I had ballet with the same teacher I had from last week.  Needless to say, there weren’t many corrections given.  I did get a ‘very good’ and an ‘excellent’ for a posse (referring to the movement, not the position).  That was kind of nice.  Centre went fairly well, too.  We did step over turns (or whatever you prefer to call them) and I guess that he actually wants us to travel on the pique as well as the tombe, which I find is really awkward and hard.  I’ve never heard of them done like that; as I’m used to just traveling on the tombe and then stepping under myself.  So that was weird.  We also did a grande allegro, but much like most of them here, it didn’t really feel all that climactic or fun.  I miss that.  In general, I didn’t have a very great class, but I perservered and it went okay at the very least.

After a break, I had batterie/variations with my teacher that is French.  We did exerpts of the variation from ‘Sylphide,’ but he didn’t specify if it was ‘Le’ or ‘La,’ so I don’t know much about it.  From what we did do, I liked it for the most part.  It didn’t feel too hard, but it was a good-feeling work-out.  There’s one double tour in it, and even without a releve preparation, I’m getting pretty much all the way around.  Yay.

Lastly, I had pas de deux.  Today, we just ran through the La Bayadere pas one couple at a time.  My run-through went pretty well, I think.  It was really helpful that I’ve already done it since I didn’t have a hard time picking up the choreography this time and now I know oodles of tips and tricks.

I have mixed feelings about coming home.  I really want to stay longer since I’m just now getting used to being here, but I miss pretty much everything at home… except driving and Old Navy.