Dreams

So, basically what I was trying to accomplish with this picture was the idea of people dreaming in either black and white or color.  Supposedly people can either actually dream in both of them or only one of them.

I only ever remember dreaming in color.

Anyway!  I've definitely had my share of nightmares but what most people may find odd is the idea that my worst nightmare, next to being eaten by a shark, was a dream about an upcoming dance show where we were given a new director and everything got totally out of hand.

This old overweight white guy walked in to our class one day announcing that he was in charge, and for people actually in this dance it would probably help if you knew we were working on Ms. Otjes' number. 

Firstly we were given new costumes.  My costume resembled a fluffy pink pom-pom with a tule skirt billowing over the length of my body, basically my armpits to my knees, and my shoulders were drowning in pink flamingo feathers, and let me be very descriptive, this flamingo was high on shrimp.  I'd like to say Alyssa Magno had it better off but we were about to tears as I glanced and saw her in a similar outfit, yet more high off of sunshine than anything else. 

To top off the ugliness of the costumes I thought my partner Aaron Sampson was going to start yelling at the evil man director guy after he (Aaron) quietly yelled in my ear that he simply could not find my waist underneath the bloated salmon encasement that surrounded me.  Although he was looking quite fine in his new "St. Patrick's Day" leprechaun vest.

Though costumes may always be a horror I could never imagine what was coming next.  After running through our number (quite horribly, considering the boys couldn't find any girls' waists and they were constantly inhaling a flood of feathers) the director approached my partner and me and asked us to, instead of doing one promenade in a certain section, try three in the same amount of time.  Ugly costumes, flailing arms, and horror-struck faces were present as we attempted to time the steps as quickly as possible without looking like a movie on "fast forward" and "repeat."

As if these directions weren't abominable enough the director was disappointed with the way the boys were dropping girls everywhere (which, by the way, was because of the costumes) so he made changes to the set up of the stage and had workout mats lining every inch of the floor so the girls would not be injured if they were dropped.

Yeah… try doing pointe on a fluffy work-out mat.