He people,

One more week of performances of 'Holland', 3 more shows to go and than 'Holland' is finished.. wauw feels strange.. After doing this piece so often I feel its almost in my blood :) I will miss it.. But I dont have much time to grieve, because one week after we will have the premiere of 'The Nutcracker' of Marco Goecke...

The Nutcracker is nice, a super different way of moving though, its inspiring, new, fresh, funny, superdetailed, etc. Its weird to rehearse a piece through the day and than rehearse another piece in the evening..
The rehearsels of the nutcracker were different than the creation of Holland, we just watched the tape from last year (because they did the piece last december also) and worked with the balletmasters on the material. For a lot of dancers it was nothing new, because they worked allready with marco goecke and they know the piece from last year. But for the new people, like me and Jeroen the other stagiere, it was a different cookie :) ;) !!
Its really isolated, fast and detailed material; which feels so strange on my body. Im used to move, to flow, to glide, to slide, to be soft, to be loose.. And now I have to do these movements that feel so unfamiliar and hard and harsh and ugly.. The first week of rehearsing my back was sore like what!!!!!!
Now that im more comfortable with this way of dancing, I enjoy it a lot! It has its charms to be so staccato.. Its still hard, and I really need to concentrate (and sometimes pretend that I know what Im doing), but I find my way in it.

Wauw I just had a moment of realising what a lucky person I am!!!! To work in such a great company, with so many unique and inspiring movers.. To be in the position that I can be in theaters almost eveyrday.. (sometimes when Im lying on the theatre floor before the balletclass we have before a performence, Im giving a little kiss to the floor and a quiet praise to the Lord because Im so happy that thát theatre floor is the floor I may jump and dance and move on and be wild on in a few hours in front of the eyes of an audience..)

Maybe sometimes I sound like Im used to this way of working, in this kind of company, with these choreographers, but Im not. Im enjoying and very thankfull. Its amazing!!!!!!!!!! really amazing!!!!!!!! Everyday I learn something new..

So this is it for now, Ill write more later.. kisses