It's been a crazy quarter. The little February show got pushed back to early May due to lack of performers, so I caught a little break there. I skipped the Student Night at Chatanoga Restaurant to go see the circus with my friends from college. OVO!!! <3
Then the big March show happened, which was full of insanity. I spent 12 hours running around in the same theater (with almost no sunlight) on the day of the performance. This made me angry and depressed. Three days running, I danced until 11pm, and got home around midnight. This is not my style. Cramming at the last minute may be okay for exams, but this is not how I operate for performances. Either I've got the muscle memory down, or I don't, and the extra hours of rehearsal mere days before a show just makes me pissed off. Oh well.
There are three more shows coming up, but I don't think I can go to any of them. The next one I'll be missing 'cos I'm visiting my cousins in the mountains. After that, it's the little May show right before I go on a long trip, during which time I expect I'll be stressed and pretty busy planning the trip. The third one is in the middle of my trip, so that's right out too. I'm a little sad that I won't be performing, but just learning the choreography is super fun, so that's all right. :)
Speaking of which, I've uploaded a video of the choreography that we're learning at the moment. The song is Studio Ayoub's "Tabla Sukkarah". It's a lot of fun. :)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Dance With Intensity
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.
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.
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
Monday, December 14, 2009
Dance Recital
It went well. I made a little bitty mistake at the end, but asking around, nobody seemed to notice. I definitely flirted with the camera throughout the piece, hehe. Hopefully the photos will come out well. :D
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Grinning Uncontrollably
M complimented me on my wonderful expressions when I dance. Little does she know, the reason for my expressions is that knowing she's there, watching and smiling and enjoying herself, makes me grin so unbelievably much. Dancing on its own makes me grin a lot too. Hooray for grinning and dancing! :D
We're performing again on Dec. 12. I'm supposed to be front and center -- probably the only time I'll ever get to stand in front, due to my height -- because the piece is too free-form and non-rhythmical in parts, and someone needs to lead and set the pace. I'm kind of intimidated. Dancing in the back is kind of nice, because half the time, nobody can see you, and you can relax and just have fun. But front and center, that's everybody, audience -and- fellow dancers, all looking at you at least some of the time, wondering what's going to happen next. Skeery.
Wish me luck! :3
We're performing again on Dec. 12. I'm supposed to be front and center -- probably the only time I'll ever get to stand in front, due to my height -- because the piece is too free-form and non-rhythmical in parts, and someone needs to lead and set the pace. I'm kind of intimidated. Dancing in the back is kind of nice, because half the time, nobody can see you, and you can relax and just have fun. But front and center, that's everybody, audience -and- fellow dancers, all looking at you at least some of the time, wondering what's going to happen next. Skeery.
Wish me luck! :3
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