Fourth position, right foot back, knees bent, and go! Open leg into second, back to passe, keep turning.
“Open, in, open in, turn turn finish,” Jill mouthed to herself as she completed a series of the dreaded fouette turns.
Fouettes, she hadn’t choreographed a dance for herself with those in ages; they simply weren’t her favorite thing to do. But they were challenging, and what she needed for this routine was challenging if she had any chance. And music, she needed to settle on a piece of music. God, the choreography. She wasn’t even starting that yet, this was purely practicing different dance moves. Not like ‘I just recovered from an injury’ would get her any points.
Fouettes, a la seconde turns, a grand allegro jump, maybe a series of double tours. Just throw in as many challenging moves as she can. She can’t afford to be anything less than stellar. She only had one shot to audition for the program. She had to put together a breathtaking 120 second long routine.
Jill wiped the small beads of sweat from her forehead and stared out the window, prepping for a la seconde turns. She turned back toward the empty desks and nodded their direction, having found something to spot.
Good, she didn’t travel and that’s becoming a more common occurance with these. Excellent. She went for another series of turns, careful to spot, always always she was careful to spot.
Except out of the corner of her eye she noticed something - someone - that wasn’t there seconds ago. She gasped and jolted, pulling her body away from where it should be, lost sight of where she was spotting and, fuck, where’s Ke$ha when you need her because timber. Jill squealed and held her arms out so she’d fall on them and not her face, but she never did.
The surprise guest had caught her - that, or she drug them down under her.
“What the hell, oh my Godric you couldn’t make a little noise walking up? You’re light on your feet, like, really light.” Jill grabbed fistfuls of her hair, still in the person’s arms - or fallen on top of them, all she knew was she hadn’t moved yet - and sighed. “You scared me.”