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well, that was anticlimactic
Dec. 2nd, 2007 07:34 pmJust got back from Za-Beth's holiday hafli, where I stood around approximately forever waiting to dance to the live band. Half the audience had left by that point, partly because of the incoming snow but largely I think because the event was just too darn long. Nepenthe and I had talked to the band leader before the show to discuss our music choices, and we gave him our names and song titles written on a piece of paper. I struck out on any of my choices so settled for Aziza (which would have been fine, I like Aziza). The first sign of trouble came when Nepenthe went on to dance to Sawwah, and the band launched into Ya Mustafa. So when I went on, I did not get Aziza. I have no idea what the song was that I performed to, and I silently sent out enormous thanks to Amira Jamal for making me dance to random AmCab music all these years, because otherwise I would have panicked. I did a very random rather perplexed sort of performance, when I had been expecting to dance to a song I knew well and could give my all. I didn't feel like I could even focus on the drum solo section very well. I know it will turn out to be a good learning experience, and certainly proof that you never know what will happen with live bands, but for the moment I'm distinctly disgruntled.
Possibly the songs were all messed up because Za-Beth was switching the schedule all around--next time I might write a description next to my name, "red hair, blue costume" or something like that. Nobody else got Aziza, though, so I'm inclined to think the band just did whatever the hell they wanted.
I did enjoy watching a number of the performances, so it wasn't a wasted day . Phoenix's Moirae were lovely, and they used great music, earthy yet high energy. Najmat was hot as always, and Johara did a holiday number complete with blinking lights on her costume. It was interesting to see Sabrina's troupe do the same number as they did for Raks Spooki, only for this show they did it dressed all in white and gave it a completely different feel. She's training that troupe really well, it's not a small thing to know a choreography well enough to be able to play around with the emotional content of it.
The snow is pretty. When I got on the bus to come home, all the people stared at me, and I thought wtf? everyone who gets on this bus is covered in snow! Then I remembered the full stage makeup. Oh well!
Possibly the songs were all messed up because Za-Beth was switching the schedule all around--next time I might write a description next to my name, "red hair, blue costume" or something like that. Nobody else got Aziza, though, so I'm inclined to think the band just did whatever the hell they wanted.
I did enjoy watching a number of the performances, so it wasn't a wasted day . Phoenix's Moirae were lovely, and they used great music, earthy yet high energy. Najmat was hot as always, and Johara did a holiday number complete with blinking lights on her costume. It was interesting to see Sabrina's troupe do the same number as they did for Raks Spooki, only for this show they did it dressed all in white and gave it a completely different feel. She's training that troupe really well, it's not a small thing to know a choreography well enough to be able to play around with the emotional content of it.
The snow is pretty. When I got on the bus to come home, all the people stared at me, and I thought wtf? everyone who gets on this bus is covered in snow! Then I remembered the full stage makeup. Oh well!
