The pressure is on now, but strangely the harder we work, the better it is for me—in some ways. Whatever you learn, you learn faster if you tackle it more than once a week. And from now on, we'll rehearse twice a week for our August show, Angle Poise.

In this photo, Jan is drilling us in a fancy, fiddly (and very pretty) section of one of the mini-dances we will do to Brahms waltzes.