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 After the common awakening on Monday morning we went to our separate lines and continued working on what will become our final product, which we had to show again on Friday. On the dance-line we started working on something new. At first we worked with this rolling-on-the-floor exercise, but I'm not sure if we will use it or not.
In the afternoon we were put in pairs, and started to work with counterbalance and some acrobatics that we haven't done before and then during the weekdays we had to make it into a sequence.
 On Wednesday Magnus, the director, came to see us and give us some advise from fresh eyes. We also had another visitor, Kåre, the PR-teacher, who came in to take some pictures and get a sense of what we are doing.
Thursday morning we placed the different sequences in relation to one another, so everything will happen on stage at the same time, which is nice I think, taken that we also have our duets and solos. Thursday afternoon we started on a dance sequence, all together, that will also be in the performance.
 Every morning of this week we have been working on the common scenes, and I'm beginning to think that it will be quite interesting, although I still find it very difficult to visualize what will actually happen. I indeed trust Michelle and Magnus and their work, but it has to be said that it is very little that we have been told about their plans.
Besides the work on the lines, some of the students, including myself, have done work, mixed between the lines, and I've been wondering why we haven't been encouraged to do more of this also after having spent so much time on Idea into Action and working across the lines.
 The Friday showings is my favourite time, people are really working on some interesting stuff and even though I've spend the last four months with the other students they still manage to amaze me with their different talents.
Friday evening the dining-hall was made into a “café” with a student-bar and the round tables from the café and lights setting the mood. With Miriam's delicious chocolate-cake and a great klezmer-band called Klezmofobia playing Balkan-music that made everyone jump off their chairs, the night had well begun.
After the concert the band-members joined the party, carrying many great conversations with all of us, and played a very nice jamming-session with some of the students, that could have gone on forever, had it not been for Lars, who unfortunately could not fall asleep upstairs. I think it was around 03.00 before the last person left what had been another very nice evening at Performers House.
On Saturday we went to watch a performance by Hotel Pro Forma, in “Musikhuset” in Århus. It is called “Tomorrow in a year” and is about Darwin and his evolution theory. I personally had really looked forward to this, the composers (The knife) being some of my favourite musicians, but I must say that I was quite disappointed. I knew that I probably had too high expectations and I did not fall asleep as many of the other students, but unfortunately it was nothing near what I had expected.
I stayed in Århus over night and came back to this lovely Sunday in the happy spirit of advent and Christmas, knowing that the following day was the beginning of the montage-week, also meaning only eleven days left before the opening performance.
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