Graffiti Gratitude.....

Howls Moving Castle definitely being up there on my list of favourite movies, i was very pleased to see the other day that someone has graffitied a painting of my favourite character from it in the underpass on my way to the post office.....



thankyou Mister Artist......

A Birhtday spent with friends is a birthday well spent

It's my birthday........

"i was wise enough never to grow up while fooling most people i had"
margret mead


photo www.meghangiboin.co.uk

Tubby The Tuba

After the build up of the big premiere performance we have now done a few shows and it is at this point that i start to relax a little bit more on stage and notice things that are going on other than thinking thoughts such as 'what count i should be moving, is it the 2 or the 3', or is the choreogrpaher going to kill me because i'm half a centimetere to far too the left'.

Last night as i was standing very still and the soloists were doing their grand pas de deux i started listen to parts of the orchestra that i hadnt listened to before, i pick out an instrument other than one that is playing the main melody and try to follow it throughout the piece of music. During one piece i focused on what might have been a Tuba and it was making a very sad Ooom Paaa, Ooom Paaa, and it got me to thinking of a cartoon i used to watch as a child called Tubby The Tuba.

Poor Tubby the Tuba was very sad as no matter what the beautiful piece of music that the orchestra was playing all he ever go to do was Ooom Paaa, Ooom Paaa. Poor Tubby wanted a melody to play, he wanted to expres himself, but whenever he tried the other instruments just laughed at him. I wondered tonight if the Tuba player was having this same feeling, then i realised that sometimes i have this feeling. Here i am standing very still whilst others dance around the stage making beautiful steps and i am just Ooom Paa-ing, sometimes in life i feel like i am just Ooom Paa-ing.

I couldnt remember how the cartoon turned out, if he found his melody or if he learned to be contented with how he was....

Yes, these are the thoughts that go therough my head on stage.....

beards

My big sister has recently developed a crazy thing for guys with beards, personally i'm not so sure that i'm a fan. On the other hand this song is simply darling......



i just bought her album a couple of weeks ago, (from here http://sophiemadeleine.bandcamp.com/) and i love it!

i'm off to have an afternoon nap before performance tonight......
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Rainy days

As i lie all tucked up in bed and snuggled warm beneath my duvet.
I listen to the constant rainfall outside my window.
A sly smile comes across my face,
because I know
Try as He might....
Tonight Mr Rain Cloud will not be getting my socks wet.

Behind the scenes....

We had the dress rehearsal for our upcoming production of La Bayadere this week. Seeing everything in costumes for the first time helps to make the steps we have practised for a very long time begin to seem interesting again and helps bring some character to them. Here are some snapshots i took.....













Sometimes it all gets too much and we have to resort to just being plain silly...