Shelley Irish Dance Company Auditions

We had auditions for Shelley Irish Dance Company Saturday. It was a lot of fun. We have a lot of new girls trying out this year. I’m excited to see who makes the group!

Normally I don’t do well with auditions. It’s sort of a curse. I get that stage fright freeze-up thing. This time I didn’t and had probably the best tryout of my life! No kidding. When I used to play on my high school volleyball team I would have horribly dreadful tryouts. I couldn’t hit the ball, dig it up or set. Yet any other day it was easy for me. It was so bad that my sophomore year I didn’t make the team. It was a couple weeks later I got a call back from the coach and she let me be on the team anyway. I had done so well at volleyball camp weeks before that she believed I was good enough.

My auditions for the dance company the past couple years weren’t so hot either. Some phsycological thing about someone testing you. If you don’t do well, you don’t get to do what you want to do! Doing a feis is entirely different, you’ve got nothing to lose. It’s not like you won’t get to compete again if you don’t get 1st place.

So anyway, having a good audition this time was a pleasant surprise!