Sofa Rehearsal

Since I am a new apprentice with the company this season, The Great Gatsby is my first experience working with Ron on one of his brand new ballets.  What a blast we are having!  Before winter break he had set a couple of dances for Gatsby's big party scenes, and now we are working on stringing everything together.  Monday was our first day back after the holidays, and my first rehearsal for the day was titled "Sofa."  We had no idea what that meant.  Ron explained to us that we were guinea pigs for a scene that was going to be all centered around a couch in the middle of the stage.  So a big sofa was brought out and we started doing all sorts of fun tricks...jumping over the back, tumbling off the front, cartwheeling over the sides, bouncing off cushions, kicking over each other's heads... and a few humorous innuendoes as well that I won't give away.  We were having so much fun that we didn't even realize till the rehearsal was over that we were sweating.  I think we are all looking forward to our next sofa rehearsal.  Get your tickets now for The Great Gatsby so you can see for yourself what we come up with!

-Karina