One down! Many more performances to go.
It went fairly well. There was some confusion at first, and of course everything started late, and there was nobody on the dance floor in the beginning, but it turned out all right in the end.
M opened with a couple of songs for teaching the crowd some moves. They were reluctant at first, but after M dragged out a few guys and put them through their paces publicly, the crowd started to warm up to it.
Once the "lesson" was done, M came over and told us we'd have a 10 minute break. As soon as she turned her back to us though, our choreography music came on, so she ran back and waved us into our lines.
The actual group choreography went fine. I made a few stumbles, and stepped on my skirt a few times, but I don't think anyone noticed. When we finished with the group choreography, we retreated to the sidelines to enjoy M's solo.
There was some sort of weird musical blip, and the club DJ's cut one of M's songs off part of the way through, so we skipped straight to free dance for the rest of the evening.
Overall, it was a pretty good experience. The club's MC's and DJ's were not particularly skilled. There were a number of little things that made me cringe inside. The strobe lights were horrible -- it made me unable to see anything, and also made my eyes water. Even discounting the strobe lights, I had a pretty tough time seeing without my glasses. I'm definitely going to get some contacts in the near future. This whole dancing blind thing doesn't work so well. Apparently I also need to work on dancing with intensity. Well, better luck next time.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Performance Overload
I have a lot of upcoming performances. It's sort of overwhelming.
- 2010-02-05 2145 - Alberto's - Ana Fi Intizarak; Taxim / Solo Tabla
- 2010-02-27 2000 - Ariel Dance Productions - Daret Al Ayam
- 2010-03-?? ???? - Chatanoga Restaurant (Student Night) - Aziza? Maybe some other stuff?
- 2010-03-27 1700, 2000 - The King's Academy Theater - Daret Al Ayam
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