Two days off are always fun - and much needed after the first week back to rehearsing full time! (My toes needed a rest from pointe shoes!). Yesterday, Saturday, dancers Lauren Breen, Nicole Haskins and Isha Llyod and I attend the Guac Fest at the Urban Hive. We taste tested 16 different guacamole's while mingling with other Sacramento food and art adventurists. My personal favorites had pesto, blue cheese or cilantro bases - who knew that there are some many different ways to prepare mashed avocados!? Later in the evening we performed "living sculptures" at the Kennedy Art Gallery on 20th and K Street as part of the 2nd Saturday Art Walk. We ended the evening with a crew of SacBallet dancers to celebrate Lauren Winterhaulder's 21st birthday - friends and water guns always make for good times. Today, Sunday, I had a chance to catch up on chores (you know the usual grocery run, laundry and cleaning that has to be done) but my favorite part of the day came this evening. Fellow dancer Alex Stewart and his brother Tim Stewart (producers and directors for the hit show At the Ballet I and II) joined Stefan Calka, Lauren Breen, Michael Vester and I at my apartment to brainstorm ideas for a new video series about the Ballet Company. Stay tuned for more information about this hilarious mockumenary debuting on Facebook, the blog and youtube soon. Like the new Sacramento Ballet Dancers page on Facebook to get all the updates.
I am excited to start rehearsing again tomorrow because we will be learning one of my all time favorite ballets - Serenade. Choreographed by the legendary George Balanchine, this piece is truly special to dance, spiritual even. This will be my third time dancing this piece with the Sacramento Ballet, but it never gets old because it is simply gorgeous and incredibly fulfilling to dance. It is a piece made for 17 women and 6 men and I can't wait to experience it with this talented and invested company of dancers. I am also looking forward to soaking up as much knowledge as I can from John Clifford (the man who will teach and coach us through Serenade). One of Balanchine's original dancers, John Clifford contains a wealth of information and a vast collection of stories from his time dancing with Ballet's choreographic genius, George Balanchine.
I'd love to write more but I must get some rest. I'll see you Wednesday at Lucca's for the first "Happy Hour with the Dancers" (5pm-6pm) and fill you in on more then!
~ Alexandra
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