#performer problems

[hilaerials]

Random fact:

I’m an introverted dancer, so no matter how confident I appear when I perform, I avoid a lot of heavy eye contact and if there is a camera in front of me I will pointedly ignore it

[red-finch-and-linnet-bird]

Director: put something on your faces. Just dancing isn't enough anymore!

Me: well Now i am Not going to do it just to spite you

[tinytimpanist-blog]

Weird Performer Problems

- “I can’t, I have rehearsal.”

- Learning how to change almost anywhere, and sometimes how to change without revealing yourself.

- Ordering to-go before a rehearsal/performance but finishing your food in line anyway while you wait for your friend to order, and then trying not to make eye contact with the server.

- 1st dress rehearsal: *consistently checks time* 75th dress rehearsal: *not even remembering where you left your phone because you gave up hopes of getting out on time forever ago*

- Introducing yourself with “Just throw it in the back” when literally anyone gets in your car.

- Trying to explain to your manager at your non-performance related job that you might actually die if you miss the event.

- catnapping becomes less about the ability to nap for short periods of time and more about the ability to nap in the weirdest places

- you’ve wondered on more than one occasion if it’s possible to wash duffle-bags, and have noticed that “that” duffle-bag has started to smell suspiciously like a gas station bathroom.

- you think you’d have to explain to people why instead of listening to the radio you have your show music in your car, but the only people who ride with you are your fellow performers so there’s really no explanation necessary.

[hilaerials]

My body forgot what it’s like to be a performer. Looks like I need new dance shoes again.

Update: my socks look just like those shoes (I switched to the shoes once my socks got torn to shreds) and my director just venmoed me $5 for new socks I’m crying 🤣🤣🤣

[hilaerials]

Rehearsal schedule for this weekend just dropped. RIP my weekend. I overlap enough that there’s only one rehearsal time that I don’t need to go to. I’m gonna be dead by Sunday night but I’m happy to be dancing

[hilaerials]

We have a rehearsal weekend in a few days and then next week we’re videoing. They’re videoing separately by acts so that we stay under the maximum of 10 people in the stage space. I’m in 3 of the 4 acts though, so yay living in a theatre for an entire weekend 🤪

Need to stock up on Monsters and rehearsal snacks so I don’t die during these 7 hour shoots

[friendly-neighborhood-ella]

I just got a flashback to this one time I was in costume for a show I was in and we had the usual rule about no eating in costume, so I thought that wearing my hoodie would save me and I ate one of those lunchables pizza things. I got some of the red sauce on my tights and someone thought I was bleeding and freaked out and I went with it because I was already having an anxiety attack and was too scared to say anything. It came off with water though so everything was chill.

[the-library-guy]

I miss being on stage.