Well, all – I never thought I’d say this, but we’re almost one month out and I am excited about coming home. I have realized that while this place is absolutely phenomenal in many ways, once this program is over, it won’t seem as much like Paradise as it currently does. I have loved this isolated and quiet life, this program, and my friends. It has been a really great opportunity for me to focus on my dancing and reconnect to myself and to my thoughts. I have recently rediscovered, however, that where I really thrive is in a city where there is always something new to explore and be a part of. Oddly, I also crave the anonymity that a city provides. I like that I can be surrounded by friends at one moment, but then choose to go into a café and disappear into my own bubble and thoughts. Here, as much as I love everyone, I don’t feel that I can find time totally to myself and it has recently be making me a little crazy! Despite these things, however, I will be really sad to leave this place. I have had so many good times here…
This past week was full and hard! At the end of this week, we go into tech week for our choreography show “Nitzotzot” (which means sparkles in Hebrew). At the top of this past week, we had showings throughout the day. During the evenings, choreographers would scramble to find time in the studios so that they could implement their corrections. There was quite a bit of head butting between choreographers due to shared dancers and lack of space, but so it goes. This is why I get super organized from the get go. At the end of this week, we’ll be ready for show time!
This past Wednesday and Thursday Sharon Vaisvaser came to the kibbutz to give us the 3rd of 4 workshops/rehearsals that will culminate in a half-hour piece for our show at the end of June. I love her movement – which is contorted, grotesque and theatrical – but these rehearsal days with her are really testing. The first day we had class at ten followed by rehearsals until 9pm. The second day, we were only in rehearsals until 7:30pm, but by that point, we all felt like our muscles were melting off our bones and our brain was sliding out from our ears. Tough. Day. Despite this, however, the days went pretty fast and if we can all get our stuff together, the piece will look pretty cool. Here’s a link to her dancing. You should check it out because she is absolutely beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLFM6id9Iao
As if my week wasn’t full enough, I decided on Friday to travel to Tel Aviv for yet another (and most likely my last) audition. The exciting thing about this trip was that I saw my first Israeli sunrise! In order to get there on time, we decided to leave the kibbutz at 4:40 in the morning. What we didn’t take into account, however, is that Nahariyya is not exactly a bustling town and therefore we didn’t consider that there wouldn’t be taxis available at 4:40am. I tried 4 different cab numbers to no avail. Luckily, everyone was in great spirits despite the hour, and we all sat on the steps and laughed hysterically at our fate as we watched the sunrise. By some stroke of luck, or perhaps madness because I think we all would have much rather been in bed, one of our crew decided to try another number again. This time, someone answered and in a fit of fury we ran to meet the taxi at the gate, barely made our train and arrived to the audition on time!
I really dislike mass auditions. It is so impossible to see everybody. Not only that, but most likely in these large things, choreographers are looking for something very specific which the auditionees are usually unaware of. Unfortunately, I got cut after ballet so I didn’t even get to learn repertoire, which was a bit surprising to me. If I had been able to learn some of their choreography, I would have deemed my excursion worth my while. Sadly, I cannot control things like this, so I would have never known that this was the way it was going to turn out. I strongly believe that if something is meant to be, however, everything will align and one of these cattle calls will work out in my favor. Until then, I will find other ways!
Okay, all! The flies have taken to calling my skin home and it’s getting pretty irritating, so I am going to wrap this up. I have some exciting things brewing back in the city, which I may or may not tell you all about later! These little brewing ideas are part of what are fueling my enthusiasm for coming back to NYC! There are so many exciting things that I can finally take advantage of and I cannot WAIT! I hope you are all well! Please do drop a line to let me know how things are going. Love and miss you all, Marissa
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