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| | Oh God It's Day Four
Posted on 01/05/2007 by Isabella
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Friday. Or as I like to think of it, the LONG day. We went until 6:30 today instead of 4:30 because we had the gym and tomorrow is a short day. So it was great, and by great I mean exhausting and painful. But still great!
We spent the morning stretching very thoroughly and warming up, then I challenged everyone to come up with a four-move sequence. Beginners worked with their new vocabulary of moves, Angels company members had to include at least one move new to them. We worked for about 2 hours and then showed off -it was amazing!
Guest camper Richard is both very strong and very flexible - he had a great Vertical Split and then still did another heavy-duty lifting one's body move to wrap for a nice single rolling drop. Angel Spike made some beautiful new choreography in the straddle position with one foot in each silk and lots of backbends - the most striking thing about it was that Spike is usually fast and high energy, and her new moves were slow, graceful, and ethereal. It was so neat to see the contrast! Luna also had an amazing "tone" shift - she normally executes silks quickly and precisely, and she instead did upside down splits and leg flexibility moves on her back, with both silks wrapped on one ankle and Luna making her body fill space between the silk, as if the silk was a picture frame. It was so mature and languid and sensual! And guest camper Missy had a setback in the middle of a move, but then stayed up there and powered through the routine - the longest she'd been up!
After a longish lunch (I got a pedicure, more on this in a minute), we came back for more aerial time and ground skills. Guest camper Rick got continuous bullwhip cracks forward and reverse for more than 20 cracks and Angel Lady got the triple crack (forward, reverse, forward on circus cracks). And we headed to the cold concrete room in the back and ate some fire, too - everyone did it again and progressed a little, and we learned the tongue transfer.
Best of all, it was my birthday! My gift to myself was a pedicure at lunch (I now have gold toes), and everyone was super nice, including driving all the way down to my house for a surprise party. I'm not a hugely social person, so the party was the perfect length - about an hour - while we ate delicious lasagna and cake and I held little Evelyn (age 2) from next door. Evelyn is learning to be an acrobat - I put her up on my feet in Superman and she knows that the next move is to tip forward into Cathedral. She'll be in the show as soon as she can hold a hat...
I got some super presents from good friends, but I was most touched by Luna choreographing a hoop routine for me as my present. It's hard enough that I'll have to work to get all the moves, but not so hard that it's discouraging. The big challenges are a drop into Mermaid (ouchy on the tops of the feet) and a fall back where I hook my feet on the hoop, the hoop tips up, I tip down, and hold on by my feet and legs - it makes me really high up and I'm finding it hard to hold on. I thought face-diving forward and catching in one knee would be scary, but it really wasn't that bad!
So thanks campers, and my husband - awesome birthday :) And hey, you know you're an adult when you work on your birthday...
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