Hong Kong Auditions (pt 2)

[Continued from Part 1]

Now, the character auditions were a little different from the dancer auditions, largely because of how many people there were! I think it was close to forty, whereas the dance auditions didn't even reach twenty people, I don’t think.

It was also a morning audition (versus the dance audition that started at 3:30pm), so I left Shenzhen at 6am and arrived with easily an hour and a half to spare. 😒 At least I wasn’t late.

The audition location was right next to a busy highway;
you can see a little of it on the right.

The weather was just so nice and Hong Kong is such a neat city :)

China and HK both have TONS of these overhead passes, and it's something
I think we should adopt more of in the US, frankly.

And here's where I auditioned! We were on the third floor
(which is actually the fourth floor because UK and US levels are different)
(so therefore HK and US levels are different)

All forty or so of us lined up and gave our basic information to the staffers (who included one woman who I was now encountering for the third time), had our picture and height taken, and then went to a large studio. Because there were so many, we had to sit in lines of ten (I was number 27).

The staffers explained the audition structure to us: warm up, fitness test, dance combo, and acting. The warm up was lead by one of the HK choreographers, and she was super tiny, super fierce, and clearly American-trained, and I loved her.

The fitness test was just doing 100 jumping jacks and counting all of them out loud, and that wasn’t super fun, but hey, I did it. The dance combo was simple, as most of the auditionees weren’t trained, but it was really fun! The music sounded like it would be something in the Animal Kingdom part of Disney, so I got to bring a lot of intensity to it. We learned it in a big group, but demonstrated it across the floor in groups of two. Each group showed the combo two times as they crossed the floor, and I had a really good time with it.

After that, we split into groups of 5 to do the acting portion, which was just to show (without words) the story of someone waking up, realizing it’s very cold outside, getting dressed, and then realizing they’re late for something. Watching everyone else was a really good time; I’m not sure how I did, but there was one man I remembered who was a little bit older than most of the applicants, and he had the very deliberate, tense kind of energy I associate with trained actors, and his story was really good and clear.

And that was it! After all the “tests” were over, we got sheets to fill out with more info and turned in headshots/resumes, and that was all. The staff didn’t make any cuts, but said they would only contact those they wanted to hire. The parts available are, of course, all very specific, they said.

So yeah! It was a good time, but nothing’s come of that yet. Still, I’ve now given the Disney corporation my resume three times, so they definitely have it on file, and maybe they’ll throw something my way someday, haha.

After that audition, since it was so early in the day, I decided to wander around and get lunch in the city. There was a public park near the metro station by the audition location, and there were some historic buildings in the park, so I decided it would be a great place to spend a few hours.

However, I walked directly past the park without realizing it, and only ended up moving farther away as the way went on. Luckily, I was in a historic part of town, so there was tons to see, and I found a really good hole-in-the-wall noodle place for lunch! (I also treated myself to an ice cream cone later, shhh.)

Hong Kong-style noodles with three toppings and soy milk!!!!

Brace yourselves for all these pictures I took.....

I found this church! St. John's Cathedral (I think)

The church was on a raised area that I thought was the park because of all the greenery,
but alas, it was not.

EMPTY ALLEYWAYS!!

LOOK AT THIS

Respectfully @every other city I've visited:
Get on Hong Kong's level

Or: elevate your game

(get it)

hi I almost screamed I love trees

It was a lovely day with perfect weather, and I didn’t mind walking, even though I was wearing fleece-lined leggings because the morning had been a little chilly, whoops. 

T R E E S

 After realizing I was never going to find the park, I got back on the metro and headed home!

Love the border at sunset :')

Peace y'all!