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Another Thursday
Jun. 17th, 2005 09:58 amLast week before the show - we are guest performers at a Hafla on the 18th at the Elks Lodge on Speen St. in Natick. In Fact - if you'd like to see us, and also get a little dancy time in - come on by. Write me, or look up Elks Lodges in Natick on Speen St. - since that's what I'll be doing, myself. This is in no way a private gig - the show is part of a periodic Hafla. We are guest performers in the first set, with the Hippie Chix, our sister-troupe composed of many friends.
( What's a Hafla? )
Our peice - the Roadshow has really shaped up. And (knocking on wood) will have peaked pretty much perfectly for this gig. I don't know of other performers out there get this, but there's a point where the "what do we do now?" part of practice is over, and you can settle in and appreciate what you are doing. But the peice is still new and shiny and you're glad to be doing it, and you have all this energy for it. That's what I mean by "peak" - and that's about how it felt the end of the second run through last night.
On a side note, I got a kind word from my first SCA dance teacher, Maliqua. She wrote me a compliment about my web pages - specifically the page on mudras. And reminded me of the days when I was just joining the SCA, under her tutelage. We haven't been in contact for years, so it was a nice suprise, although she said nothing about her own life. It did remind me how far I have come. She was the person that explained how SCA awards work, for example, and who first got me improving at haflas. I still remember her chasing us around the fire circles, when we suffered from dancer foot-lock. And now, here I am singing and dancing with a troupe that does guest spots and has live musicians!
Funny - how one doesn't always realize one's progress without a touch from the past.
( What's a Hafla? )
Our peice - the Roadshow has really shaped up. And (knocking on wood) will have peaked pretty much perfectly for this gig. I don't know of other performers out there get this, but there's a point where the "what do we do now?" part of practice is over, and you can settle in and appreciate what you are doing. But the peice is still new and shiny and you're glad to be doing it, and you have all this energy for it. That's what I mean by "peak" - and that's about how it felt the end of the second run through last night.
On a side note, I got a kind word from my first SCA dance teacher, Maliqua. She wrote me a compliment about my web pages - specifically the page on mudras. And reminded me of the days when I was just joining the SCA, under her tutelage. We haven't been in contact for years, so it was a nice suprise, although she said nothing about her own life. It did remind me how far I have come. She was the person that explained how SCA awards work, for example, and who first got me improving at haflas. I still remember her chasing us around the fire circles, when we suffered from dancer foot-lock. And now, here I am singing and dancing with a troupe that does guest spots and has live musicians!
Funny - how one doesn't always realize one's progress without a touch from the past.