Things I noticed in my rehearsal and performance videos that are incredibly frustrating:

• I occasionally let my turnout go when I need to get my tuchas accross the floor, pronto
• OMFG why did I prepare for my turns in such an effing huge lunge? BW would kill me all the times
• My arms still really like to creep back behind my shoulders
• When I get spooked, I let the music push me. To misquote Hagrid, “I shouldn’t’a doon that!”
• I did these beautiful assemblés battus all week and then left out the battu on the big day
• I still tend to end the arm movements too quickly
• Also, when I get tired, I still throw my head back in turns.

Things I noticed that are at least okay:

• So much less Flappy Hands! Yay! Nobody wants to watch Seigfried Flappy Hands, even if Tim Burton directs.
• Great traveling sauts-de-chat, Batman!
• Me legs. They look pretty amazing. Also like eleventeen feet long in those tights.
• Before I got spooked, some of my port de bras was actually pretty okay.
• I played off my mistakes pretty well even though they pissed me off royally in the moment (the AD showed up)
• The nice moments are much nicer than last year’s nice moments.

I’m sure I’ve got plenty more thoughts, here, but I’ll brain-dump them later. Tonight I’m going out with ballet peeps from home just to play 😊