on their way . . 
well, today was the day morgana and chanda have been waiting for and working for . . today was the day they auditioned for dances patrelle's yorkville nutcracker. last year when they went to the audition, they hadn't done a tendu or plie all summer . . and they bombed! they were awful! and they didn't get the parts they really wanted. but this year . . oh my goodness . . they looked beautiful (i took a peek, and they were so poised, so graceful!) they have been working all summer on specific audition combinations and also practicing with making up their own (in addition to painstaking technique work). and all that hard work really paid off. they were kept back for consideration for the party scene. i was so relieved when the first batch of auditioners came out, and they weren't with them! they stayed in for another hour of dancing. and when they did come out . . they both had bright smiles and a bounce to their step.
hooray!
m said that it was such a good audition that she doesn't care what she gets . . but we both know she does!
and since we were just a few blocks away . . i couldn't resist a visit to andre's to pick up some prune danish and apple strudel as a celebration for all the hard work and a good audition.
i was supposed to make chickpea soup with rosemary and garlic (from the angelica kitchen cookbook), but the chickpeas were still soaking, so chanda got her wish and i made linguini with clam sauce instead.
followed by fresh whipped cream and apple strudel!
Dorina, I wanted to ask you this earlier, how do you get your daughters' hair so perfect? I've never had long hair, I've never taken ballet, so I don't know very much about way you put up hair. I manage to get it in a bun, but mine never looks as neat as yours unless I use a hairnet and lots of hairspray. Any secrets?
ReplyDeletehello eva, we use a hairnet and hairpins, not bobby pins. first i spread on a little aveda hair control paste (it's expensive, but lasts forever!) (http://www.aveda.com/products/CATEGORY10538/Hair_Care/Styling/index.tmpl?PRODCAT_ID=CATEGORY10538&PAGENUM=all), running my fingers from the temples and back. then i brush the hair into a pony tail (not too high up for chanda!) and make sure it's pulled back tight. then i start to wrap and as i wrap i put in the hairpins, so that they kind of slide under the pony tail holder. then i put on the hairnet and finish off with some kind of puffy pony tail holder . . or sometimes one of the flower decorations korrina has made (i'll have to take a picture one day). we also use heavier hair pins from capezio (http://www.capeziostore.com/Bunheads-2-5-Hairpins-p/bh437-fslash-bh438-fslash-bh439.htm)
ReplyDeletegood luck! let me know how it goes . . and did you ever identify that caterpillar?
Hello Dorina,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the helpful tips. We do have hairnets, but I normally only use them for rehearsal and recital week. Then I also get out the hairspray. I don't have any haircontrol paste. How much do you use? Do you put a ponytail holder on the pony tail before you wrap it? I've never put the hair pins in while I wrap only after I'm done wrapping. Maybe that's my problem! Do you stick them in close to the head or more from above? I think we're using the same hair pins as you do and I also have similar hair pins from Capezio as you have (although mine seem to be larger than the ones you linked to).
We haven't had any luck with the caterpillar. We got another book from the library and I tried to look online, but no luck. We keep looking.
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