May 6, 2010
Theater week has brought nothing but butterflies to my stomach. In less than a week I will be joined with my fellow Princeton Ballet School dancers and peers on the Trenton War Memorial stage in our production of the Sleeping Beauty. I find myself dreaming and even day-dreaming about the show and the choreography I have spent months rehearsing. Countless weekend rehearsals and hard work have gone into what will result in two shows on Saturday, May 8.
On our first day of tech and spacing rehearsal in the theater I enter an almost empty house. I feel chills running up and down my body and I know that it’s not the air conditioning that’s blasting the auditorium. Approaching the stage, rows and rows of red seats surround me. In a couple days they will be filled with all the dancers’ family and friends, hopefully even mine! I look up at the magnificent ceiling and chandelier and think to myself “ I’m the luckiest girl in the world.” How many people can say that they get to perform for a live audience? How many people can say they were given the opportunity to perform in front of hundreds of people? How many can say that they performed their last show as a senior in high school at a theater as beautiful and professional as the Patriots Theater? I am so grateful that I am one of few people that can actually do this. Ms. Youskevitch reminds us “ The theater is our church, our temple. This place is sacred to us.” As she says this I look out from the stage and tears fill my eyes. No one can take this moment away from and the joy that fills my soul.
As a senior in high school I have been doing a lot of reflecting lately. I’ve been thinking about how far along I have come in the past 10 years. It feels like almost yesterday I was a court child in Sleeping Beauty or a snowball in the Nutcracker. If you were to tell me back then that I would dance on stage in a tutu I would think I was dreaming. That day is quickly approaching and I can’t believe my dreams are coming true. I couldn’t ask for a better performance or group of dancers and teachers to work with . With all of their support as well hard work coming from all the crew backstage, May 8th will be a day I will never forget. My goal for that day is to share my passion and love for performing and do it in such a way that it enters the audience and touches them all.
Adrienne Esposito graduated from Princeton Day School this spring and will attend Texas Christian University on an academic and dance scholarship in the fall.
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