Juggling

Today, I had a lovely zoom chat with the director of a play happening this early spring/summer. The show goes into rehearsal roughly around the same time as Romeo et Juliet, but I am 99 percent sure I can swing both. As R et J is a remount and was done fairly recently, its a good ballet to let the dancers take some responsibility and initiative on. I wouldn’t have been able to do double duty while I was remounting Carnival of the Animals because so much of the piece is being re-imagined. But in the case of R et J, even much of the cast is remaining the same as when we did it before. As I get older, these opportunities to do plays and musicals, harkening back to my beginnings in musical theatre, do become more of a two way street. As a young choreographer it WAS very much a one-sided job interview. Now, it truly has become just as much about me feeling as if the director/project is a good fit for me as it is the director feeling I am a good fit for them. Not because of my status or because I am financially well off. It’s just that now, I can’t take outside projects that distract my work at the ballet, unless they are truly going to excite me so much that they are worth the distraction. So come May, hopefully I will be juggling not just one foray into Shakespeare, but two.