I can’t believe it is already the middle of August! Since our performance at Rose Tree things have been pretty quiet. After a well deserved week off, open classes began this week and will continue until labor day when the fall schedule gets under way. As we move closer and closer to the start of school, we also move closer to the beginning of rehearsals for this year’s fall performance featuring Nancy Page’s Requiem and Christopher Fleming’s The Phantom. For those of you who do not know, I graduated this past June and am headed off to the University of Cincinnati in September to major in ballet. It still has not fully sunken in that when rehearsals start in the next couple weeks I will not be there. As excited as I am to see what college has in store for me I will certainly miss performing with Brandywine. I look forward to coming home and seeing the shows from a perspective I rarely see them from, a seat in the audience!

- Emma Yasick, Brandywine Ballet dancer & blogger