Cupo Limitado
Saturday, September 29th, 2007.
9:00 am: I wake up (yes, I’m not an early bird… especially not on a Saturday).
9:30 am: Breakfast while watching Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs (time to relax).
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Continuing with the relaxation process, I take a shower and put everything I have for my curls in my hair, hoping not to look like a messy lion in the evening.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: I finish getting ready, look for things, waste some time (I even put on makeup and everything) :P, etc.
1:00 pm: I arrive at Teatro Montes de Oca (I feel sad about not having class there anymore), (yes, I still miss having class there).
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: My friends from the theater come out and we go to lunch (we should have done that more often :P).
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Lunch at “La Hoja del Aire” (a very nice place, delicious food, all of us very excited, a lovely lunch).
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm: We go to Spoon, pick up the cake for the teacher who is having a birthday and we go to El Carmen de Guadalupe, almost Jaboncillal :D
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Arrival at Andrea’s house, we sing “Happy Birthday” (with the cake under an umbrella because it was raining, only about 3 candles lit), we eat cake, laugh for a while, choose costumes (yes, the day of the presentation).
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Class + “dress rehearsal” + finishing what we could of the details.
7:00 pm - 7:45 pm: People start to arrive :O and us girls “go to the dressing room” and start doing our makeup (together we had everything necessary for a complete makeup set, none of us had everything we needed) and warm up a bit. Andrea runs around the house like crazy, comes to see us and updates us on the situation outside, wishes us luck and finally sends us outside to start…
7:55 pm: Cupo Limitado starts…
After all that: a glass of wine, celebrations, impressions and other related events :P
That was the last Saturday of a process that started a few months ago, for me, I must say a difficult process, like most things worth doing, it required a bit of sacrifice (not just mine, but everyone’s).
There were many times I felt frustrated, when things didn’t go my way, when I felt left out of the group, when I suffered from remembering every Saturday that I didn’t make it to “Danza Abierta”, especially when I saw the camaraderie among my friends and knew that I could have been a part of that camaraderie.
Also, feeling like my lack of training sometimes held me back, wanting to run away and wait for Andrea to open a group for extra-beginners with curricular adaptation included… the choreography sometimes hit me hard because of the processes I was in (looking for work, looking for where to take class)… but in the end, it was all worth it to me.
I was in the first workshop-production of Teatro Las Afueras, we practically “premiered” the theater, which is an incredibly beautiful, inspiring space; a whole experience alongside the Catania family, people to admire, people who have a name and a trajectory in the performing arts of this country, I danced a choreography by Andrea Catania (for me, one of the best choreographers in the country right now), we even celebrated her birthday :D. Music and other collaborations by Alex Catona (another great artist, too good a musician), danced alongside 7 very good dancers (on their way to becoming more professional every day), in short, everything was a gain.
The only thing I would have liked to add would have been more guests at the show, since we had to be a little selective due to space issues :P, but thank God there were people there that I love, who I care about being there, without their support it wouldn’t be the same… anyway, Andrea says that the most important thing about all of this is to enjoy it, otherwise it’s not worth it… she’s right and I enjoyed it very much.