#7 Open Topic

I am very happy to be having a snow weekend; however it sucks that it had to occur over the weekend. I would have much rather it snowed during the week so we could get out of classes and work. I would have been nice to sleep in and do nothing. But it instead it snowed on the weekend and now my weekend is ruined. I had so many plans but not anymore. First on Friday night I planned on having rehearsal with Joe Bowdie from the Mark Morris dance company to perfect the piece Grand Duo choreographed by Mark Morris himself. Then that night I was going to go the Center for the Arts and see the company perform at 8. Then My friend Kam from back home in St. Louis was suppose to arrive and stay the night at my apartment because the next day he would have had an audition to be apart of the dance department here at mason. I was going to help set up the audition and talk to perspective students that had any questions or concerns from 11-12:30. Then I was going to get some lunch. Then around 2 go take a class for warm up before my rehearsal with Mark Morris. This was going to be a scary experience but one I would never forget and one that I was extremely excited about. Its not often a dancer my age and where I am in my dance career gets the opportunity to dance in front some one like Mark Morris. He was going to rehearse his piece and give us corrections and advice so that we are ready to really perform it in March in our Gala performance. Then on Sunday I had an audition for Doug Verone’s piece but that got cancelled as well of course because of the snow. They have rescheduled the audition for Monday at 12:30 but that sucks because if I get into the piece I don’t have much time to find a sub to work for me this coming week while I have rehearsals from 4:30-9:30 every day. I also don’t have much time to inform my theater teacher that I won’t be in class. He seems to be strict about attendance. However although my weekend was ruined the highlight of my week was being able to see The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night. It was a marvelous performance!!!!!!! I can’t wait to see them again.