The fact that I even got to the rehearsal was nothing short of a miracle. I've had such a string of bad luck and bad health. This performance season with Aerial Experience Productions was just the thing I needed to lift my spirits! Just two days prior to the first rehearsal, I had a fever of 103.3 and hadn't moved off the couch in days. The flu had done my in good with a fever or 104.4 just 6 days prior and persisting with night sweats, giving me a break from the fever in the night, but ugh! Hate those night sweats. I arrived on site, looking sickly, coughing, tons of pressure in my nose, but was relieved that Misty RasonSmith was our Artistic Director. She was so wonderful to work with. She respected us all as artists, and did not make us rehearse the things we knew. She trusted our artistic capabilities and vision. No pointless run throughs of things that we knew. We just targeted our energies on mental run throughs, and creating the things that weren't set yet. She wasted nobodies time, and man, I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
Among the pieces that I got to create and perform during this tour was a trio silk act. We did a canon climb and drops in series to a beautiful piece of music sung by Nicole of Covenant Worship. She has a flawless voice, and I wish I was there for the release of their new CD which was coming out this week. I just barely missed it. But, I'm glad I got the chance to perform to it both for the trio piece, and for my solo, Overshadow Me. The solo was my favorite piece for the emotion involved with it. I got the most amount of feedback from that piece, and really felt a connection when I was dancing both on the ground and in the air.
I loved flying through the air in a number entitled "When Heaven Kisses Earth" and another number "Glory to God." I was FLYING out over the audience, and felt so free!!! I saw the kids who wanted to jump up and join me. :)
For another show with an entirely different feel, we did a circus piece to "Send in the Clowns." It was slow and heartfelt. It was part of a fundraiser to raise money to send clowns into Hospitals to cheer up patients! That's really the short of it, there's a lot more to it, but it's a huge project. I don't really know all the details, but seeing the glimpse of the project made me happy to be a part of it.
I did another solo to a techno song "Save the World." That one nearly wore me out, but I saved just enough energy to wipe out my grip on trapeze in the final number. What an event!
Among the pieces that I got to create and perform during this tour was a trio silk act. We did a canon climb and drops in series to a beautiful piece of music sung by Nicole of Covenant Worship. She has a flawless voice, and I wish I was there for the release of their new CD which was coming out this week. I just barely missed it. But, I'm glad I got the chance to perform to it both for the trio piece, and for my solo, Overshadow Me. The solo was my favorite piece for the emotion involved with it. I got the most amount of feedback from that piece, and really felt a connection when I was dancing both on the ground and in the air.
I loved flying through the air in a number entitled "When Heaven Kisses Earth" and another number "Glory to God." I was FLYING out over the audience, and felt so free!!! I saw the kids who wanted to jump up and join me. :)
For another show with an entirely different feel, we did a circus piece to "Send in the Clowns." It was slow and heartfelt. It was part of a fundraiser to raise money to send clowns into Hospitals to cheer up patients! That's really the short of it, there's a lot more to it, but it's a huge project. I don't really know all the details, but seeing the glimpse of the project made me happy to be a part of it.
I did another solo to a techno song "Save the World." That one nearly wore me out, but I saved just enough energy to wipe out my grip on trapeze in the final number. What an event!