Extra hours, a torn ligament and an end-of-year show
Over the rest of the year I worked tirelessly to bring my skills to a level that I felt comfortable performing at. I had spent countless hours training acrobatics after classes finished and managed to gain a few fantastic training partners outside of school who helped my training along hugely, Lisa and Jane (my acrobatics teacher and her partner) were patient even when I was exhausted and irritable after a long day training in class.
When I had the energy I also trained extra Corde lisse. Learning climbs, drops, holds and later on some catch-release moves that I couldn't have dreamed of achieving without the close tuition of my rope teacher, Jonathan Priest.
As the year came to a close I was looking forward to using my newfound skills to create some technically challenging routines to put forward for the selection of the end of year show, a showcase of the first-years' work. Unfortunately in the few weeks leading up to selection day I tore a ligament in my thumb, the result of an overenthusiastic attempt at a flip I didn't understand and had no idea how to execute. I effectively destroyed the use of that hand in terms of Acrobatics and Aerial, but had to carry on regardless.
It turns out that this was rather a positive turn, rather than losing my willpower and sitting out of selection day, I worked to put two pieces together that could be done without the use of one hand. For rope this proved to be an excellent devising tool, the piece took on its own movement style, theme and limitations from the injury... I didn't have to think about creating a piece at all and I managed to take some new tricks from the experience too!
On the other hand working around my hand in acrobatics made both me and my partner Chloe have to think hard about what we could do. Any move where i supported with my hands was out of the question, unfortunately this ruled out some 80% of what we had learned, so we decided we would just focus on doing something that we enjoyed working on and wasn't too strenuous. The piece ended up almost like a caricature, larger than life and all swingdance and clowning. One or two technically hard moves kept it a challenge but that wasn't what the piece had become about. It was the first time I really enjoyed playing at a character and it meant i could really get into it, something I will definately work at doing next year.
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