Studio Sisters Part 2

Today Abby and Logan have a catch up about all things dance and work :) 

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Hi, welcome back to An St. Galleries. I'm Abby and I'm Logan. And today we're here just for a little catch-up, really. We've not been in an episode in in a wee while. It's been a lot's happened since our last episode. I don't even know when our last episode was, honestly. Well before Christmas anyway. So we've had the Christmas show, we've had Christmas New Year, and then everything that's happened this year already. Do you feel like this year's gone like fast or slow since we've started back? Um I'd say pretty slow. But do you think that's because you're at college during the day as well? I don't really know. I just think I feel like January went by really quick, and then I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like March has been here forever. I do agree with that. I think that I feel like it was the first of March about yeah a month ago. It's wild that we're still here. How are you? So what are you up to right now in life and college? That is literally it. But what like my life is college and so what are you up to right now? Like what what is March for you guys? Is it uh it's all rehearsals for go dance? So very full-on, long hours. I'm not gonna lie, feeling it pretty tired. I don't know if you can tell. Um but it's it's coming together. Do you think that being at college, like although you feel tired here, do you think that you like it helps you when caught choreo with choreography-wise here? Like, do you feel inspired by what you do at college, or do you feel like no? I I'd actually say the opposite because it's like it's not that I don't feel inspired by what we're doing, it's like I actually really enjoy what we're doing for go dancing, it's gonna be really good. Uh-huh. But it's more it's difficult to come away from that. Like, see, because my whole day is so like the it's not really a secret, but like also I don't know if basically what will like our theme for go dance, it's hard to then come away from that style that we're dancing. If that makes sense, it's like the movement quality and things that we're using for the piece. It's then difficult to not just go like into that mode when choreographing for here, even though like the pieces I'm doing for the show here are quite literally the complete opposite. It's still difficult to not like just be in that headspace of like like not copying, but yeah, not it's not a case of copying, it's like you really you'll like be choreographing something you'll do and you're like, Oh wait, I literally just learned that like two days ago, but it's because it's so full on and it just kind of over it consumes. Yeah, it's hard to switch off like one part of your brain that's connected to the other, sort of thing. Yeah, and I think cause it like when I'm here, I don't really it's not like I go home for like two hours, just guys and then come here. You you do not understand the life that Abby lives right now. Like she is up and out by what seven just after seven, away to college. At college for what seven hours, eight hours, and then drive straight to here to teach all night. Like it's wild. It's not this sounds like I'm dogging. I'm not dogging on anything, I do enjoy it, but it's just then not having that break is like hard to switch off, if that makes sense. Um yeah, what's going on with you? Um I suppose just work. It's been busy to say the least. Um a lot's happened over the past few weeks, so it's just been how it was the preschool open day. It went so so well. Do you know that? It was something that I definitely felt a bit more nervous about. Why did you make it? Oh you said it was really moving. You she just made a face at me. Anyway, uh it was something that I was definitely nervous for, but then once we once we got there, it was so much fun. Like it was so nice to meet new faces, new families, and it's it was quite a refreshing. Like, you know, when you do especially preschool, like it's a structured class, so sometimes when you're doing it like four times a week, it does get to the point where it feels like very repetitive. I mean, this is to me because as I said, it's four times a week, but it's very repetitive, whereas having a new group of kids and maybe switching up the order and stuff made me go a bit like, wait a minute, maybe I should incorporate some things I'm doing here, like back into the class and try and give it a whole new shake up, like for myself. I do feel with preschool, like even like say for example, a Saturday morning when you're teaching to a back-to-back, there is a I guess similar, it's like there's a comfortability in it where it's like you're able to just enjoy the class because you're so used to the structure. Yeah, it's not like you've I don't know. No, I get what you mean. I think because like we normally how I run it is I pick for like our warm-up stuff, I pick a song for each, like a song for arms and a song for feet and yeah, no, and every time I cover it, because it's like I don't cover the cost that's always different, it's always a different song, and I I have no idea the timing of it. Yeah, but so it gets to the point that that song just goes on, and I just like it I don't think about it, I just do it, which means the new the new one what is from Coco. Remember it's got the most abrupt ending in the world that I had no idea it was coming to an end. Yeah, it just goes Remember me. Even Amelie was like, I didn't realise that was finishing. I went like great, and then it's so funny because the feet one this year I've done get your head in the game and it's a short song known to mankind, like, but at least with that, like with that one I knew it, so I was like, Okay, I know where I am right now. Remember me, I genuinely was like guys, guys. What is going on? Do you know when it's finished? I feel like every week it changes as well with that song. Never two weeks that it's the same. Um, but yeah, it was it was nice, it was nice to shake it up a little bit. But I get what you mean, like it almost gives you like you're more aware of what's happening around you because you're not it's cut it's second nature, yeah. You're not thinking about what's coming next. No, and I suppose that's what's different about college in here is that for you anyway, at least here maybe there's not as much pressure on it. Like I feel like at college it's a quite a high pressure situation. But to be fair, right now, yeah. Or do you honestly third year just has been in general? I just feel like it's one thing onto the next, it's a fast-paced year, and it it doesn't have everyone always said to us like oh second year's your hardest year, and then third year is fine, big fat lie. Like just no, I found I found um second year hardest yeah. I think it's because they've put like they've given us a lot more this year. Oh, in terms of lot, like even like choreographer-wise, we had two in before Christmas, which isn't a thing that normally happens, and like um we had our first like set of assessments, and directly like the next week was a choreographer in to create a piece of the show. So oh my goodness, it was like normally you get like a choreographer maybe the first week you're back, but this was waited ages and ages and ages, and then assessments are done on choreographer, and then we also had one the first week back after the Christmas holidays. No, see, ours was very much like I think we had one choreographer in. We had one choreographer in, and you had them in the first like the second or third week back after summer, yeah. But that was difficult in its own way because you then had to remember um like the whole year round, remember the details, remember all of that. I almost feel like it would be better if we learned it closer. No, but that's what I'm saying. So we learned to November one piece, the next piece is starting January. So then we still have until June to go over these two pieces. Plus, we have go dance. See, I never did go dance when I was at college, it was always a commercial group that did it. It's no, I to be fair, I prefer in my first year. I did go to a couple of go dance classes, and then obviously we did it last year with the whole uh second and third years. What is it you did last year the game? We did no language. Did you? Yes, from we just it was literally just the showpiece cut down a little bit. Because the third years learn your part and then we learn their second year part, so we just swapped it around. But I think this time around it's nice because it's like you are creating it all together, it's not like we just are learning it. I was gonna say, like, because obviously you were NC when I was HND, so you were not part of like the Mulan Rouge piece at all. Mulan Rouge was it was such a good piece, it was unreal, it was amazing. But it was it got dragged out so long. I know you could tell that the lecturers loved it because how many times did that get used? Like it was so good, but I think someone used it for their assessment piece, or used in Goldans, and then I was like, guys, I I get you like eight with this one, but like can we do something you right? And then uh I suppose this is more me asking the question by the way, Abby and I pretty much see each other here on a Wednesday night and Thursday night, yeah. Even like on the drive home, I'm sorry, I'm non-verbal. Yeah, so when we're here, we're both doing something like fatiguing. We're both doing something different, so it's it's difficult to actually get chatting with each other, I suppose. So, my question to you is obviously you do your group piece. You do your group piece. What what have you chosen for that? Um, well, my group piece assessment is in two weeks. I feel okay because my piece is pretty much done, it just needs a lot of cleaning and a few gaps filled, but that's fine, like two weeks manageable. Mine is about the Hillsborough disaster, not gonna go into it, but like, yeah, not the best thing. But the first half of my piece starts out like quite upbeat, and I loved like choreographing it, and then you get into the like second half where it is like the kind of bad side of the is the disaster, and it's I think it's been mentally challenging in a way of like obviously I've done a lot of research on it, and I've watched a lot of documentaries and things, so I understand the depth of how like bad this was and how hard it hit like the community, and it's very hard to get that across to my dancers without them having to go and watch all the exact same things I did, yeah. Which also isn't fair to make them do that because they have their own group pieces that they're doing research for, I guess. But then also choosing something that is quite a sensitive topic and dancing about it can be very difficult because you there's a very thin, like thin line about whether this is effective or you're being insensitive. If that makes sense. Do you feel like how do you feel that you're coping with that line right now? I think I'm fine, honestly. I think I'm a very aware person. I also agree with that. I think that you're like I would be the first to say, hold on a minute, like what is that? I mean, she you saw, like I said, that she made a face. And no, that face is just because your voice changed. You sounded like someone off of Love Island. I don't see all the dance. But your voice seems really weird and appropriate. Okay. But yeah, I think I'm more stressed about other people's the ones you're dancing in. Yeah. Because even though like they're not judging your dancing, it still feels like you've got like this pressure. No, but not even that, it's like we're two weeks away and you have half a piece. So I'm stressed because like I said, our timetable is already so full, it's kind of there's not really any time to be slotting in extra rehearsals. Um I think as well because I'm here and I teach, I don't want to have to get like I don't want to I pretty much do anything I can to make sure that I'm not having to get like a class covered. Uh-huh. Um, so then that obviously comes into play because it's like, well no, sorry, I can't make an extra rehearsal. Yeah, so you know it's not my fault that no people definitely like you shouldn't have to change your routine for other people. Um I've just realized the time and the classes will be starting soon, so we're gonna have to leave it there. I feel like we just chatted about our lives there. You guys just heard us catching up in person, to be honest. Um, but we will see you guys back in the next episode. We hope you enjoyed this one and hope you guys have a fab week. Bye. Bye.