floating higher than any hot air balloon...

AHHH I still cant believe what happened to me yesterday. I got a scholarship! And not just some dinky scholarship, THEY PICKED ME as a semi-finalist for the MONSTERS show!!!!!!! My hard work yesterday paid off.

Monsters of Contemporary:

First off, scholarship aside, the convention was awesome. It was a one day event with some of the most talented contemporary choreographers out there. We started the day off with Will Wingfield (from SYTYCD) who taught us ways to warm our bodies up. Then he taught us a combo to this really intense version of Lux Aeterna which was really hard but so fun.

Next we had Wes Veldink. One word: LOOVEE. We had him at West Coast Dance Explosion a few years ago and I loved him there too, but yesterday we did a combo to taxi by kate nash which gave him automatic points from me. and the combo was awessommmeee.

After lunch they had a seminar thing where the talked to us about auditions and gave advice about what to do if you want to be the LA dancer. we came in kind of late from lunch so I didnt hear everything but it was pretty inspiring.

Next was class with SONYA TAYEH<33 we did this crazy combo to bodies hit the floor by dj sega. i loved the combo and i was going so full out but when I had to get on stage at the end of the day to be taped, I kind of didn't remember the dance due to my nerves. I didnt mess up too bad on stage but man I've never been so nervous in my entire life.


Next was Jillian Meyers. The class was different to say the least, but I couldn't ignore how amazing the syncapation of her moves flowed with the music. I've never danced like that before but it was really cool.

Last but not least we had Matt Cady from Fanny pack. He was pretty cool but his choreography was kind of tricky. I liked it though it looked really neat on some people.

The bad part about getting picked was that I didn't get to watch any of the faculty's solos or the special performance from fanny pack :[ Oh well I think what I got was definately worth it. It was my first scholarship ever. I think the thing that calmed me down back stage was when sonya was about to go do her solo and she was saying how she hated doing that becasue she was so nervous. It made me feel a lot better... well I've never been so happy wiht myself. now I just have to wait a few months to find out if this will go any further. It'd be neat if it did, but I'm not expecting anything.

Back to reality tomorrow