Thread: My first performance!

Hi ladies! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that posted advice in the previous months. It all contributed to my first performance, and my first perfessional costume. It's a purple Hanen! I think i did pretty good, becuase i was soo scared and nervous. I puked afterwards AHH! Anyways I am not looking for work just wasnt sure where to post this.. :)
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBXPq4J7cs]YouTube - My big debut!!!!![/ame]

Pretty good job. Keep it up.
How long have you been dancing?

You did cover the stage and you did use your veil alot.

Nerves are bad, I wish they didn't exist for performaning.

Keep up the work and continue sharing it with us .

I like two things in particular. First the way your whole body bent around 2.21 when you fling the veil from stage left to stage right over your head. Second, your enthusiastic male audience member (husband/boyfriend perhaps?). Like the man said "yeaaaaahhhhhhhh!"

I'm not giving a critique because you didn't ask for one :-)

YAY!!! You did a great job. Your nerves didn't show, you were bringing plenty of energy and extension (nerves make people crumple up and dance really small sometimes). Lots of gorgeous spinning (maybe that's why you puked?)

The costume is just gorgeous, love the color and the full skirt, it shows up really well onstage. Nice choice!!

Pretty! You have great energy on stage! Thanks for sharing.

very pretty. well done!

No wonder you were nervous - that looked like a big audience! (I think my first performance was for about a dozen people, and I was with a troupe!)

I really like some of the veil moves you did. Personally, I have a death grip on my veil because I'm so afraid of the wind taking it away, so I like to see when people let go and recapture it. I'd love to have that confidence and command.

WOW!!! Thank you all soo soo soo so much! I was very afraid to come back becuase all of the dancers i've seen on here are so professional and so amazing and I am very amature but thank yOU!

AHH thank you I figure if it falls, ill pretend its my unveiling :)

Thank you, and thank you for not critiquing :) My confidence is bad enough :) <3

I've been dancing in my bedroom mirrors since a kiddo, besides a few years of jazz/assorted dance, thats the exctint of my training. AHH!

Very good veilwork. Good stage covering - and good stage presence from what I could tell from the video.

Your first performance is for one reason - and one reason only: To get you on stage. If you accomplish more than that, you're ahead of the game! I'd say you accomplished WAAAY more than that. Congrats!

Brava! It can be very difficult to keep veilwork interesting throughout an entire song, and you did that superbly! I couldn't see what your hips were doing much, just because of the distance-- but if they were as good as your arms, you had just about as nice a first performance as I've seen. The nerves will probably subside in time. Remember that even experienced stars can get bad stage fright, but the first performance is likely to be the worst. I hope to see more from you! Keep at it!

Nice,r:;