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-meiling

hello! it's serene here! (:

hmm juz wondering.. we're SOOOOoooo busy n stressed out with acads stuff, fac comm, SYF(modern)/ Danceworks(hiphop).. hmm what to do with our jnrs? heh.

anyway. i'm juz posting the dates on behalf of alicia tt ms chen has booked for danceworks prac..
JAN- 22, 24, 29
FEB- 12, 21, 26

the rest of the mons n weds in jan n feb are alr booked.. so we've got to make do with these dates n if want more pracs, ermmm find alternative prac venues? heehee. anythg. we'll get to it soon.

SOOoo.. just keep these dates free for dance pracs k! as u all know.. danceworks is on 11 march (NOTHING MUCH SPECIAL ABT THIS DATE MAH.) and we dun have much time alr, given we have to change n edit so many things NOW.

no worries. WE CAN DO IT!

oh and JIAYOU modern with tt super emo SYF routine! (:

Aha! Finally I do not post consecutively.

Updates for hiphop. Actually more like updates for Danceworks.

Went for the briefing today! Saw seniors there, drew lots for the order and day of the competition. We are going to be competing on the same day as our seniors, and we are going 3rd on that day, right after NUS *eep!* Our seniors are going 11th I think.
The competition date is on the 11th March (is it someone's bday?) ONE WEEK BEFORE BLOCKS. (byebyeeeeeee blocks!)

After the briefing we came out a bit stunned, cause got a lot of things we had to discuss. Over ice desserts in the temporary Chinatown hawker centre.

1) Probable change of the Tipsy song. Because the competition guidelines state that we cannot use any songs promoting alcoholism and drugs, and the song cannot contain expletives. Tipsy kinda fits the whole entire description. It gives us a good reason for changing the song, cause nobody really likes it.

2) The theme of the anti-drug dance is "Celebrate a drug free lifestyle". The original idea was to have the song Petrified somewhere in between the routine. Which totally doesn't fit cause we are supposed to kowtow to the "drop that" in the song lyrics and be "petrified" in the middle of the dance routine, when we are supposed to be "celebrating a drug free lifestyle". Furthermore, if we are using this routine for Dance Night, it will be quite ridiculous to bring the anti drug theme in the middle of nowhere. If the anti drug rah rah bit were to be cut for Dance Night, then it should be either at the start of the routine or at the end, or both.

3) There is such a thing as a costume competition. I don't understand how the heck are we supposed to come up with a drug free costume.

4) There is also another thing called the Best Supported Team competition. Although we don't really want you guys to see us suffer, COMEEEEE support us.

5) The commercial, contrary to our beliefs, is not 5 mins but 45 secs. Major cutting needs to be done.

Hence we had some sort of a grand plan. We propose that at the start, we keep 2 eights of the "instrumental" (if you can call it that) Tipsy, then go on with being Petrified. Then when the music goes "drop that", instead of kowtowing as intended we will drop all the already pasted cardboard pills and needles off our costume. So that covers the anti drug theme and the costume problem. HAHAH.

Problems that need to be sorted out - Proposing this proposal, figuring out how to mix funk music into hiphop so that it doesn't sound disjointed (the pain of having different genres in one routine), finding another song to replace the banned Tipsy, coming up with another commercial, practice dates, etc.

And of course, surviving blocks afterwards.

it's meee(iling).

auditions tmr and i've a feeling it's gonna be hectic and we're gonna be damn drained, but eh a lot of people wanna audition for MAD = good! and hopefully we'll take in juniors who're both good dancers and, veeeery importantly, nice people.

we will get through tomorroww. no matter how much pressure people put on us to do this, do that, just have to rmb it's our auditions and sometimes to manage it well we have to be a bit colder/harsher. but only a BIT =)

yea ok shall stay optimistic and hopefully be excited by a zai batch of juniors

- meiling




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oh btw for those who dunno, there're like pics of our open house performance on this umm photoblog. a bit lag la i know but it's http://wanzwphoto.blogspot.com/2006_10_08_archive.html and then the updated entries has like a few fac dance pics i think.

i also have some videos of our performances uploaded
rightclick+save

gabriel - http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-gabriel.mpg (79mb)
gabriel (lower quality) - http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-gabriel-lq.wmv (30mb)

tapestry videos:
http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-tapestry.avi (9mb)
http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-tapestry2.AVI (13mb)
http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-tapestry3.avi (13mb)
http://www.littleblackspot.com/meicrap/mad-tapestry4.avi (19mb)

and once again, people who don't have dance night dvds, look for me. like i haven't passed to paul and michelle ugh