Before I go on? I NEED TO PEE, REALLY REALLY BADLY!!!
I am calm up to maybe 10 minutes before performance. I stand around quietly but with hands shaking a bit, I feel butterflies when I go on. The nervousness ends during the performance (the shaking usually moves to my lip for a short while in the beginning, hehe).
When I'm performing with the troupe I'm way more nervy than when Im soloing, but depends on where I'm dancing and for whom. When performing for dance sisters or at school hafla's I'm really nervous. With the troupe I do get an extra oomph from dancing with the girls and it usually shows.
It's weird though. I LOVE performing and making my audience happy, letting them feel the music and emotion through my dancing, and I will feel this throughout the performance even though my nerves are present.
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