This SAC BALLET BLOG, written by the dancers of The Sacramento Ballet, is a fantastic way to get to know us and also to understand more about the incredible profession of a professional ballet dancer.
We're just about religious in our habits to keep our bodies at the same high standard of performance - taking daily class, intense stretching, eating well, and cross training which includes anything from running, yoga and pilates, to tai chi and ball games in the park. Each Monday morning since the start of season 2011-2012 I've been guiding a chill, 45min IM=X Pilates session before our daily technique class and participants have informed me how much more grounded they are throughout the day.
Let's not forget of course the hours we can spend in the hot tub, sauna, or steam room to relax our muscles and calm our spirits.
You can read about Chloe's dance bag, Roberto's repeat experience with Second Before the Ground, and watch our Blood Source video or my own summer adventures and Katie's work in video editing.What's fun about this is you not only get the inspiring personal accounts of different ballets from the dancers, the history of famous ballet pieces and choreographers and repertoirs but also the pain and struggles that accompany any company working towards a production - information you're not suppose to know by just coming to our shows.
With a profession that requires us to only present the ease and love of a performance, our audiences don't see the sometimes frustrating process that gets us there; whether that frustration means ever-present blisters on our toes from constantly wearing pointe shoes, massive bruises, sliced fingers, falls, partners not in-sync, muscle injuries, tendon injuries requiring surgery, dead pointe shoes, sprained ankles.. the list of frustrations go on and on...all of which did in fact happen in the first two weeks of work at The Sacramento Ballet.
KEEP CHECKING The Sacramento Ballet Blogspot for daily updated frustrations, pleasures, pain, and thoughts!
Have you bought your tickets for our first performances??
Trey McIntyre's "SECOND BEFORE THE GROUND"
George Balanchine's "SERENADE"
Ron Cunningham's "DRACULA"
October 22nd @7:30, 23rd @2, 27th @7:30 & 28th @7:30
Individual Tickets on sale now:
Call: 916-808-5181 (mon-sat, 10am-6pm)
OR: http://www.Tickets.com
http://www.sacballet.org/tickets
~Isha
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