Sometimes this business makes me want to cry and scream. So I write about it humorously instead.

Dancers can be really catty.  So much so that sometimes we assume another dancer is being catty when they're actually just being nice....

Other dancer (whom I didn't know) to me in dressing room at an audition today, as I put on one of two tops I was considering, and, disliking it for this particular audition, started to take it off: "Oh, that's a really cute top! You should wear it!"

What went through my head upon hearing that: "Does she mean that cattily?  Like 'cute' rather than 'hot' [this was an audition to look hot and fierce, not cute]?  Or does she actually think it's a bad top, but she's telling me it's a good top so that I'll wear it?  Or is she just trying to make me second guess my confidence about how I look?  Or, the most unlikely of scenarios, does she actually mean she genuinely likes it and maybe I should wear it after all?".....

I didn't wear the top.

I danced hot and fierce and great at the audition and saw the choreographer's score on my resume.  I got the highest score you can get.  And the director cut me anyway.

So... Guess I should have taken her advice and worn the top....