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The Green Room / Re: Silly things done when we're not at our best
« on: Apr 21, 2015, 10:38 am »
So my rehearsal studio is a pretty informal place, we like to joke a bit and as anyone who SMs for ballet knows sometimes you just make up names for movements or lifts so that you can easily identify them in blocking notes. Well my director loves them and thinks their funny so spurred on by the idea that wow people think I'm funny I should open my mouth more when a new young dancer wasn't getting the concept of Phantom of the Opera (really who doesn't know the story of phantom?) so I blurt out "basically it's like Friend-zoned the opera" To which 90% of the room cocked their heads in confusion while the one other native english speaker tried desperately to hold back laughter.
I should have left it there but instead I proceeded to try to explain the concept of friendzone-ing and how it applies to Phantom of the Opera to a room containing ESL dancers and my Ukrainian Artistic Director.
That happened and my American dancer will NEVER let me live it down.
I should have left it there but instead I proceeded to try to explain the concept of friendzone-ing and how it applies to Phantom of the Opera to a room containing ESL dancers and my Ukrainian Artistic Director.
That happened and my American dancer will NEVER let me live it down.