Embarrassing moments: tell us about them. We'll laugh, we swear.IN THE NUTCRACKER nutcracker, common name for a small crow of the genus Nucifraga in the family Corvidae (crow family). The Old World nutcracker (N. caryocatactes) is found throughout the colder regions of Europe, including high mountain forests. , the rats' masks are layers of painted-over papier-mache and the dancers have to poke See peek/poke. poke - The BASIC command to write a value to an absolute address. See peek. tiny holes in the paint to see through them. This one night, my rat head mask shifted and I couldn't see anything, so I just ran onstage on·stage adj. Situated or taking place in the area of a stage that is visible to the audience. adv. In or into the area of a stage that is visible to the audience. Adj. 1. and tried to do the part. I got all turned around and was headed straight for the orchestra pit. Just before I fell, my foot got caught on a light and I was dangling over the first violinist. They had to stop the show and rescue me! --J.M., Houston, TX WHEN I WAS A RAT in The Nutcracker, we had to wear shower caps over our heads under the masks. Just before I went onstage, I readjusted my mask and the shower cap slipped down over my nose and mouth. All of us were on our way to the stage so I just went anyway and danced the whole part holding my breath. When I finally got to the wings, I pulled the head off and fainted from lack of air! --M.K., Houston, TX I WAS DANCING in the ballet Miss Julie This article is about the play by Strindberg, for other works see Miss Julie (disambiguation). Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) is an 1888 play by August Strindberg dealing with class, love/lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among , and we were all dressed as ghosts in these gray dresses. During one of the first scenes, my dress ripped halfway up the back so you could see my entire backside for the rest of the time I was onstage including like 10 minutes where I was facing away from the audience! --S.P., Fairfax, CA WHEN I WAS 8, I was in my first performance with my Jazz class. The girl who was dancing next to me wore her tap shoes for the performance and she kept clomping on my foot. Finally I couldn't take it anymore so I stomped on her foot and yelled, "you're wearing the wrong shoes!" onstage. I felt so bad afterward. --A.Y., San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA Send your funny or embarrassing stories to Young Dancer, 333 Seventh Ave, 11th Floor, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10001 or email fauxpas@youngdancermag.com |
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