Hello, Des Moines! Our first stop was at the botanical gardens. We had a tour from the head gardener and it was BEAUTIFUL! There was actually only eleven dancers that came to the gardens as the rest went shopping in the East Village. There were all sorts of tropical plants and a koi pond all throughout the dome. Amazing place! We then walked over to East Village for some window shopping and five of us stopped at The Continental, a small bar restaurant, to eat and it turned out that we are the popular ones as the rest of the company slowly trickled in. Going from an empty restaurant to over seven tables really overloaded the one waitress on duty. But in 45 minutes, we got everyone fed and back on the bus. So, Ballroom had a great surprise at their first hotel, as it had been hit by lightning during a tornado, so they had to find alternate housing for the evening. Folk was thirty minutes out on their flight over the Pacific and an engine caught on fire and they had to turn back to San Francisco. Dancers' Company just had a rough show. Tech wise, the audience should have been reimbursed; but according to the audience, everything looked great! Oh how I love the naive-ity of the audience during performances. The venue was simply amazing. Everything was ready for us, new equipment, etc ... but being our first show and two lighting techs trying to prep the stage for everything put us behind - since we are mostly based of lighting, not all the other qualities of stage. The worst problem was the projector not working with communication to the computer. The ethernet ports gave out on us, so no projection occurred that show - and one of the numbers is heavy on projection and Erin spent hours upon hours on projection. We're getting it fixed, though.
That evening, three dancers and I stayed with the Cook family, who has four young kids. We stayed in the basement having a nice slumber party - mainly we just went to bed. :-D It was a good day - as long as I forget the show.
No comments:
Post a Comment