Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Bad Dreams...

They're back - pageant nightmares. I'm pretty sure anyone who has ever been deep into the performing arts has had these dreams.  I used to get them all the time around ballet performances when I was younger.  You know the dream - you show up and they've added a dance that you don't know the choreography for or your partner doesn't show up and you are now doing that pas de deux by yourself or with someone you've never met, or you go to put on your costume and it doesn't fit or is missing all together.... ya, that's the type of dream i'm talking about.


I've had this dream before and my mom says she had them for years after she did pageants.  I'm in studio A upstairs at Capital Theater and all I have is a leotard, tights and my point shoes and i'm competing at Miss Utah.  I keep telling them i'm married and I don't want to compete and I don't even know why i'm there, and they just keep telling me i'm on the schedule and
i'll let so many people down if I don't do it. So there I am, no music, no costume, no choreography and i'm going on stage.  So I start going through other contestants ipods trying to see if anyone has a tarantella so that I can try to throw some choreography I already know to a new piece of music.  Oh yes, and I am also going trough the Ballet West dancers lockers trying to find a practice tutu because that will be better than nothing, right?

Then I wake up exhausted because I just spent the last hour of "sleep" freaking out about a competition i'm not even in. Gotta' love it!


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  1. UnknownJune 15, 2013 at 6:06 PM

    Doug and I both have dreams about work. Whether it's stressful or not. One night when Doug was working at Chick-fil-A, he had a dream about a serious problem that I can't remember anymore, but he woke up thinking, "Oh no! THE CHICKEN!" So funny.

    Also, I needed to talk to the other event photographer at Carden about whether we were going to do individuals at graduation because we always have and never used them and I thought maybe we could take a more chill moment and not do it. In the dream, she flipped out and was screaming at me (never actually heard her scream in real life, didn't think I could even imagine it). In real life, she was like oh yah, that sounds like a good idea and laughed when I told her about my dream. Apparently I was nervous to talk to her about this.

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  2. UnknownJune 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM

    Glad to know i'm not the only one. And from now on, any time I have a dream like this, i'm just going to wake up and say "Oh no, the chicken!" I think that will make me feel a little better! :)

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