Dancers are frequently told: "Listen To Your Body."We aren't told that if you "listen to your body" when you're sore & warming up for a nine a.m. rehearsal, you will hear a lot of whining. Take a look:
KNEE: Snap.
HIP: Pop. POP. Wow, that felt good.
(Forward cambre)
HAMSTRINGS: No.
SPINE: Hey, can we skip the cambre back for now, and stay down for here a second? It feels good. I'm not ready to bend the other way yet.
HAMSTRINGS: No!!
BRAIN: Sure.
HAMSTRINGS: I hate you all.
(during a series of quick eleves)
ARCHES: Dead pointe shoe alert! Dead pointe shoe alert!
CALVES: Um, wow, hey. Dude. We are SO not ready for that yet.
BRAIN: Oh. Sorry.
(calf stretch)
CALVES. Thanks!
ARCHES: Yo, can we do something about this dead- shoe situation here?
BRAIN: They aren't THAT dead. They've got, like, an entire class left in them. You can at least make it to the end of barre work, Captain Fussypants.
(later)
ENTIRE LOWER HALF: Why. The hell. Did you think it would be smart. TO RUN THREE MILES yesterday.
BRAIN: Sorry.
ENTIRE LOWER HALF: I dunno if you've noticed, but we are not runners. WE HURT.
BRAIN: I said I'm sorry! And admit it, we really needed that run.
TOES: Cramp!
TOES: Cramp some more!
ARCHES: Hey, Toes are cramping up big-time, maybe we --
BRAIN: Yes I KNOW.
ARCHES: I'm just saying... you know... maybe we should ditch the pointe shoes.
BRAIN: Maybe you should suck it up.
ARCHES:
BRAIN: ZING.
(Barre stretch)
HIP: Pop!
HAMSTRINGS: Holy damn, woman, WHAT PART OF "NO" DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
BRAIN: You know, you will feel a million times better IF YOU JUST SHUT UP AND LET ME STRETCH YOU.
HAMSTRINGS: But I'm so sorrrrrrrre.
EVERYONE ELSE: So are we!
BRAIN: You buggers are whiny today.
2 comments:
All in a day.
The good thing - is that you dance anyway.
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