"I love dance!!!!"

Ok....so I'm going to try to blog at least once a week.  I'll try to keep you "abreast" of what's going on with Cin City Burlesque, as well as what I personally have going on.

This morning was pretty excellent.  But let me back up.

After the last big show at Bogart's in September, I held auditions for CCB.  EVERYONE had to try out...including girls that have been with me for years.  I did this for a few reasons: 1.) I need to constantly re-evaluate. 2.) I need to keep the girls on their toes. 3.) It's the fair way to do it.  I had a panel of 4 judges including myself.  EVERYTHING was put to a vote.  If I was outvoted 3-1, then I went with the majority.  I lost one girl outright, and two more became soloists.  I also picked up one of my original dancers, and a brand new girl.  After all of that, we started working on Seasons Teasings for December 7th at the beginning of October.  We had 3 group routines, as well as two duets and a bunch of new solos.  I was beginning to freak out that we weren't going to get it together to my crazy-high standards in time, but my girls proved me wrong this morning.

The solos were genius.  The group numbers were clean. And I didn't flip a table.

Cinnamon, during a moment of pure glee at the end of the closing number (that we had NAILED), squealed "I LOVE DANCE!".  It made me ridiculously happy.  We all do this for the love of dance and performance.  But sometimes in the shuffle we lose the joy.  It was nice to be reminded of how much FUN it can be.  Then following the most excellent rehearsal, I taught a Pump & Grind class.  I sweat. I shook. I danced my ass off.  It felt gooooood.

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