More rehearsals, although now that we are fitting in well in the city and feel more comfortable, Fusion leaders are definitely taking more control in starting and stopping rehearsals - we feel its about time they adapted to us, just a little bit!
We got showered and changed and headed off to the Goeth Institute to perform, a very posh and large building, very white! This is an outdoor performance and we have included a section where the 'blacks' meet the 'whites' for the very first time, at first they are afraid but gradually they realise they can work together etc. Abbi and Vicky both have solo sections and they got given slightly different costumes. We have also created a short puppetry, dance piece at the demand of Derek. I start the performance with some improvisation with my marionette puppet, it seemed to go ok, phew! Our pupperty piece goes fairly well but needs more work.
Well, the main part of the show, now the dancing is exceptional, especially from TimAfrik. But the new guy who is doing the music gets the whole thing wrong, and his CD player does not work very well! The parts with live music are fine but we take cues from some of the recorded music, especially our Muse dance. So we are stood there trying to keep it going, Joe has to start improvising on the keyboard playing Muse for us to dance to as best he can but it helps and we all pull together and teamwork saves the day. The last dance goes well and its a lot of fun.
We then have to have a quick chat to Tim and explain that we are not happy with how much the schedule has changed and explain some more of our culture, he wanted us to start visiting families of all the dancers but we know that the group need some time to relax and have fun and do things that we want to do.
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