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Nov. 10th, 2003 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_sparrowAm back. Didn't win. Slightly annoyed, there. Am a better dancer than the rest of the Intermediates. Most of the girls in Novice were better than the other Intermediates. Alas, I am fat, and I use no props. It's so hard when you're trained to actually be interesting for more than five (coreographed) minutes.
Meh, I should be nice. Most of the girls in my category were really nice and supportive to each other backstage. Which is unusual, considering the way things were the last couple of years.
The contest has this silly rule, that you can only enter into Novice once. So I was up against a bunch of girls that had been in novice category last year. And they're very, very good at a few specific things. Sadly, those things are the type of moves that the judges really like- drops, pops, and locks, basically. Which I do, but not to the same degree. And it's not terribly easy to do hip drop-locks that'll show unless you're reasonably thin. (I'd like to see them do belly-rolls to a drumbeat, though! Hah! And play zills. I play zills, and I kick ass. I'm good at zills. And drum-solos.)
Slightly frustrating. Melody danced in a live music category, and she did WONDERFULLY, but didn't win. I was one of two well-trained (not to disparage the other girls) dancers in my category, so I should have placed just by default. Melody, on the other hand, was up against a lot of good dancers- and she beat them by miles Most of the time in that category, the band looked bored, but they had fun with her- the lead kept leaning off to the side and saying things to the drummer.
My mom did well, but a) she hasn't danced publicly in a long time, and b) the contest hostess doesn't like my mom, and controls the girl who counts the ballots. Not nice to say, but even if I didn't deserve first place this year (the other girl that was good was very good, sad to say. *sigh* and I didn't practice all that much, to be honest.), it was obvious when neither Melody or I won the year before last, when the competition was...nothing. I'm not trying to be arrogant there, the 2001 contest didn't have much in the way of dancers.
So, rambling, yes, sorry.
The live music was fun. Pangea rocks.
Meh, I should be nice. Most of the girls in my category were really nice and supportive to each other backstage. Which is unusual, considering the way things were the last couple of years.
The contest has this silly rule, that you can only enter into Novice once. So I was up against a bunch of girls that had been in novice category last year. And they're very, very good at a few specific things. Sadly, those things are the type of moves that the judges really like- drops, pops, and locks, basically. Which I do, but not to the same degree. And it's not terribly easy to do hip drop-locks that'll show unless you're reasonably thin. (I'd like to see them do belly-rolls to a drumbeat, though! Hah! And play zills. I play zills, and I kick ass. I'm good at zills. And drum-solos.)
Slightly frustrating. Melody danced in a live music category, and she did WONDERFULLY, but didn't win. I was one of two well-trained (not to disparage the other girls) dancers in my category, so I should have placed just by default. Melody, on the other hand, was up against a lot of good dancers- and she beat them by miles Most of the time in that category, the band looked bored, but they had fun with her- the lead kept leaning off to the side and saying things to the drummer.
My mom did well, but a) she hasn't danced publicly in a long time, and b) the contest hostess doesn't like my mom, and controls the girl who counts the ballots. Not nice to say, but even if I didn't deserve first place this year (the other girl that was good was very good, sad to say. *sigh* and I didn't practice all that much, to be honest.), it was obvious when neither Melody or I won the year before last, when the competition was...nothing. I'm not trying to be arrogant there, the 2001 contest didn't have much in the way of dancers.
So, rambling, yes, sorry.
The live music was fun. Pangea rocks.