Once again, I learned the lesson that working with a partner adds a whole different dimension of challenges.
Going through our demo on Thursday, our first run through had my partner "falling" off the stage. Next go around, as we approached that portion I thought "oh right!! I can't let her fall off the stage this time!". And so I simply shuffled a bit over, thinking "ok, crisis averted". Haha. Nope. I shuffled, but now she was completely in the wrong position for our roll. Whoops.
In years prior, it's been easy (not really...but now in comparison it was...lol) to switch my stance, take an extra step, take one less step...whatever I needed to do to make the space on the stage work. I can't do that with a partner. With any change made, we affect each other.
Having said that...I don't think that puts us in a place where we just say "oh well...nothing I can do".
What it means is that we have to be hyper-aware...in real time...of any adjustment or misstep that might occur with our partner, and then adjust ourselves accordingly. Seems to me that this will be a very transferable skill.
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