Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 0:14:25 GMT -6
Age: 27
Height: 5’5
Occupation: Choreographer at the Moulin Rouge
From: Indiana
Education: B.F.A - Musical Theatre Performance; Minor- Dance - University of Michigan
Personality:
This world calls for a little goofiness and optimism, yes? At least, that what Andi Foster firmly believes. Of course, many get on her for simply 'not feeling' the worst of things that happen and shutting them out, but it has worked for her so far. Andi just wants to enjoy everything. She will never turn down an adventure and trying something new out. Her creative and unique way of looking at things adds to the the spark she always has in her eye. Andi Foster is quirky but embraces it. A little unorganized, but she seems to make it through- it's just not always the most prettiest of pictures. On the darker side of things, Andi tends to ignore the bad that comes her way, which is bad in itself, but also means ignoring her obsessive habits. We all have our stuff, right?
Brief History:
something about being able to prick out all that plaque made her aggression be taken out. She use to practice on her entire family, and actually got ahold of a set of some tools. It was her dream. Then, her father took her to see Chicago the musical when she was twelve, and when the lights went on, every light in Andi Foster went on. She was already behind, and that night went home and pulled an all nighter. She changed her room to make a dance space in her room, looked up some dance classes, traded in her dentist tools for dance shoes, and Andi Foster had been completely bitten by the bug.
Andi Foster didn’t do spectacular in middle school because she was so focused on dance. She would dance under her desk, she would go over numbers she had just made up, and then make her parents watch them at night. Andi was an only child, so she was lucky enough to have attention. Andi never understood how she had two parents that were so… different. They made her feel bad for being artsy, didn’t look like any of them, and treated her like she was from another world, which is what she felt most of the time. One night, Andi had gotten in trouble at school. Her parents yelled at her at the dinner table until she ran out sobbing. She stuck around, and what she stuck around for changed her entire life.
Her two ‘parents’ were in a screaming match about, ‘Why did we ever adopt?’.
Andi Foster kept quiet. She never told anyone about that night, but vowed that she would do better at school to break free from this family and live her own life, and be her own person. No one wanted her, so she was all she had left.
In high school she kicked academic’s *ss. Andi scored high, studied hard, and told her parents she was student body President, when she was using the ‘meeting time after school’, to go dance. Every excuse she came up with she made so she could go dance. She even worked there for extra money to save up for her life.
Andi Foster danced her way to University of Michigan’s dance department. Her parents thought she was going to Michigan to view that school, when in actuality, she was auditioning. She was accepted with a scholarship, and after Seinor year she left her parents entirely.
Andi trained hard in college and really found herself. It was the hardest and best four years of her life. When she went to audition for graduate school, she was accepted into Tisch’s graduate school. Andi Foster never thought she could get into something like that, but the faculty wasn’t surprised.
So she used all her work money from college, loans, and scholarships to do graduate school. But, she wanted to get on with life. She was done with conservatories, classes, and the people. Andi enjoyed Tisch, but after school was working to try and get jobs.
That’s when she was cast in A Chorus Line ensemble to dance for the first beginning numbers. Looking for an excuse to drop out of grad school, which was sucking the money out of her anyhow, she went to do that.
Where she fell in love with choreography.
Running with A Chorus Line for awhile, she took outside classes and found a studio where they divided people into groups and made their own dances. She absolutely fell in love with the idea, and Andi Foster’s new dream was born. She began taking her dancing to everywhere she could, but she was fresh meat and no one would give her a shot. Andi hated being not seen. It was the worst feeling ever.
Not as bad as when A Chorus Line deducted her pay. So she began waitressing as well.
Andi Foster lived off of ramen noodles and was unhappily dancing in the back. Everyone had to pay their dues sometimes, right?
She continued to audtion… and audition… and audition….
Until finally, A Chorus Line bumped her up to dance captain. They gave her a shot.
Someone important on the other side of that table saw her dancing work, because Andi had made it her mission to suggest things, push people, show off everything that was built up.
So they made offers for assistance in choreography. Andi Foster was assisting in things like Rock of Ages, Hairspray- she had done a shadowing of a view big names, got to know some people, and soon she was helping out with dance numbers from different shows. Even ongoing shows to spice things up with some new ideas.
Andi Foster wasn’t the face plastered everywhere for all the hard work, but she did not care. That, until everyone began stealing her work and claiming it as theirs.
So, restless and crazy, Andi needed a change. A big change.
That was when she heard someone from New York City mention their good old friend, Myron Bolitar, and how he had called and confided that he needed a choreographer for the Moulin Rouge.
That's when Andi Foster knew fate was on her side.
