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ENSMB recap
Apr. 30th, 2007 03:28 pm[![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
siderea posts a nice review Here.]
Thank you all for attending!
The ENSMB show yesterday went off wonderfully! It sold out, which unfortunately left a few later-arrivals disappointed. But it Sold Out! Uncle Shoe and the roving clowns had the audience well worked up by the time ENSMB started to play. The number of people turned out to be perfect; the room was crowded, but there was still plenty of space to move them around as needed to open up the floor areas underneath the various aerial apparatii as needed.
The band was loud, energetic, and really tight.
My doubles silk act withklingonlandlady was the second act of the show. We had worked in another 2 days of practice sessions over the friday/saturday, and they really paid off. Everything went well during the perfomance, we managed to sync up perfectly with the different tonal sections of the piece we were performimg to (Flight of the Winged Serpent), and all of the parts of the doubles section of the routine that needed to be oriented in certain directions for best results lined up in good orientations! (this can be hard to get on a swiveling apparatus). About the only thing i can really complain about was that i set the fabric a bit too low on my initial flamenco-hand-twist-and-pike-over, which made removing the suit-jacket while hanging there a bit more tenuous than i would have liked. Everything else went like clockwork.
ENSMBs music is so energetic, and bouncy, that all of the usual pre-perfomance jitters just evaporated as soon as we were walking up toward the fabric.
From what i could see of the other acts, and hear from the audience when outside of the floor view, everyone else was having just as good a time.
Special thanks towhale_girl for taking on the stage-manager role and herding all the cats, starphire for bringing in nifty lighting at the last minute, and scores of others for all the help they gave. Dead Aerialist doze_e_fish and Grave-digger Marty, Spinny Aerialist klingonlandlady, Drunken Aerialist clara_girl, Clowny Aerialist Teresa, and Strappy Aerialist BJ, HulaHoop, Poi, Tricycle, Bellydance, People-On-Strings, and banjo-and-ukelele folk, we all put together one excellent show. Thank you chillguru, and all other ENSMB members, for making this happen. Looking forward to another one of these in the fall.
For anyone who missed this, ENSMB will be playing a short set, aerials included, on May 5, at the Wake Up The Earth Festival, We'll be at the Sun Stage, around 3:30, after Copal.
siderea posts a nice review Here.]Thank you all for attending!
The ENSMB show yesterday went off wonderfully! It sold out, which unfortunately left a few later-arrivals disappointed. But it Sold Out! Uncle Shoe and the roving clowns had the audience well worked up by the time ENSMB started to play. The number of people turned out to be perfect; the room was crowded, but there was still plenty of space to move them around as needed to open up the floor areas underneath the various aerial apparatii as needed.
The band was loud, energetic, and really tight.
My doubles silk act with
klingonlandlady was the second act of the show. We had worked in another 2 days of practice sessions over the friday/saturday, and they really paid off. Everything went well during the perfomance, we managed to sync up perfectly with the different tonal sections of the piece we were performimg to (Flight of the Winged Serpent), and all of the parts of the doubles section of the routine that needed to be oriented in certain directions for best results lined up in good orientations! (this can be hard to get on a swiveling apparatus). About the only thing i can really complain about was that i set the fabric a bit too low on my initial flamenco-hand-twist-and-pike-over, which made removing the suit-jacket while hanging there a bit more tenuous than i would have liked. Everything else went like clockwork. ENSMBs music is so energetic, and bouncy, that all of the usual pre-perfomance jitters just evaporated as soon as we were walking up toward the fabric.
From what i could see of the other acts, and hear from the audience when outside of the floor view, everyone else was having just as good a time.
Special thanks to
whale_girl for taking on the stage-manager role and herding all the cats, starphire for bringing in nifty lighting at the last minute, and scores of others for all the help they gave. Dead Aerialist doze_e_fish and Grave-digger Marty, Spinny Aerialist klingonlandlady, Drunken Aerialist clara_girl, Clowny Aerialist Teresa, and Strappy Aerialist BJ, HulaHoop, Poi, Tricycle, Bellydance, People-On-Strings, and banjo-and-ukelele folk, we all put together one excellent show. Thank you chillguru, and all other ENSMB members, for making this happen. Looking forward to another one of these in the fall. For anyone who missed this, ENSMB will be playing a short set, aerials included, on May 5, at the Wake Up The Earth Festival, We'll be at the Sun Stage, around 3:30, after Copal.
