Ice Show Rehearsals

This year I'm doing an ice show at a different rink than where I usually skate. I watched it last year and it was charming so I wanted to be in it, the Nutcracker on Ice. They do it every year and it actually follows the ballet quite closely and I love ballet. I'm in the adult group number. The adults are the "guests to the party" so we are on ice the whole first act. I'm impressed that they allow adults to have solo numbers too (at my regular rink, they don't).

We've had two rehearsals and they were soo relaxed, especially compared with my old rink rehearsals. You can find my posts about the ice shows I did, under the tab "ice shows". The choreographer/ instructor started by saying that he wants us all to feel safe and enjoy, and we don't have to do anything that doesn't feel like that. Then, he explained the process: we'll try different things and depending on what they look he'll decide the choreography for the next week. He asked who can do what, and had us do some things together.

On the second week rehearsal he gave us the backbone of the choreography. We are split in 3 groups, filling the middle and the ends of the rink and will do 3 main things, a line with some steps and a spiral for who wanted to do it, then some steps into waltz jumps, then pinwheels. We haven't actually put it all together, but some of the skaters do this show every year and they seam confident that it's all gonna work, plus they are very used to work with each other and they are part of each of the three groups on ice, so I feel they'll lead the rest us well. I also loved that it allowed for each of us to choose the costume. No stress there, again, compared with the previous shows I did, where we had quite strong unhappy voices about the costumes. And then, we went to breakfast, almost all of us.

We have a two weeks break, then four more rehearsals all on the weekend and week before the show, two one after the other on the same day, then a matinee for the neighborhood school kids, not open to the public, then three performances.

Up to now it aligns well to my idea to skate for my own enjoyment, as a balance to skating hard to progress. I'm especially happy because I feel I'm finally starting to get some desire to push for progress again, and for testing.