The Abs were out today

Impressions were made. Auditioning for West Side Story is such a rogue experience. Sometimes he loves me, and I get through all three dance cuts and sing. Sometimes he cuts me in the first round (he being Joe McKneely, the choreographer responsible for restaging the original Jerome Robbins movement on Broadway and all the tours).

Just to mix things up, I went for a mostly naked approach (two piece swimsuit, a dance skirt, and heels today), which seemed to go over well and carried me through the later rounds of the audition. We'll see what comes of that.

This industry is so bizarre, and I fully accept responsibility for submitting myself to it. Slowly, but surely, I am seeing the yields of focus, hard, work, and acceptance of the factors I cannot control about auditioning and character type.

Also, the trick of not drinking too much water before dancing totally works! Les abs were out in full force, as was the recently accumulated tan that's taken residence on my epidermis. Sometimes it feels so vapid to focus so aggressively on building myself into the kind of dancer-athlete I always dreamed of being, but it's also so fulfilling to watch the fruit of incremental goal pursuit take shape on my body, in my voice, and at the auditions I go to.

Tonight's inspiration and food for dreams:

YUM.

I plan to be the lady version of this. Shortly.