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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Spring festival


SO the annual Folk Dance Spring Festival of Nations was last night. My team did a Lithuanian Polka piece. Basically Lithuanian dance is all about formation. For the most part we just skip but the formation is changing constantly. If anyone gets off it basically train wrecks the whole piece. Wed. in class we did it perfectly we got the formations correct. Wed night however was a different story......We started the dance super close together. This caused a few collisions, nothing serious just enough to startled the people involved. But in the third formation two of the girls braids got caught together. This was the first time we had danced in the costumes, and the first time we had even tried on the head pieces. The costumes included two very long braids and a headband thing that tied over the top. So two of the girls braids got stuck and they couldn't manage to get them apart until right at the end of the dance. Amid this problem we all kept dancing, some of the boys forgot to come inside the girls circle which they finally fixed by just cutting through the girls. This made everyone late for the next formation. One of the guys almost lost his pants (I heard rumor he actually went off stage, but I didn't see that). By the end of the dance we were all laughing really hard because we knew that our dance was a train wreck by this point but we all kept going. When we finally got off stage everyone burst out laughing and just kept saying, "Wow! that was horrible!; Can you say Train Wreck!" Nonetheless it was fun and Spring Festival is such a chill performance anyway it wasn't a big deal. Today everyone just kept laughing anytime anyone would ask what team any of us were on because we weren't sure if we wanted them to know.

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