Oregon Country Fair 2009 - Friday
On Friday the gates opened to the public and the Fair filled right the hell up. It was glorious weather - sunny and delightful. People were full of excitement and the air shivered with fun.
We carted our mats & gear to the Daredevil Stage, utilizing Noah's voice alongside Dutch's height to clear a path. It worked well, and people didn't even seem upset at stepping aside for a cart full of mats & costumes. The show went fairly well, although the Triple Base pyramid didn't have time to extend. That damn stunt has given us more trouble...
Highlights included watching James shadow Julia's bellydance routine to "I'm a Woman - W-O-M-A-N", as well as Dutch modeling our new Kazum panties. The stage managers were delightfully friendly and everything went stunningly. Since our next show was there the next morning we were permitted to leave our mats and the bulk of our gear there overnight... saved us a lot of schlepping. We did the "Make Way for the Cart" roar all the way back to Stage Left, then we hurried over to W.C. Fields stage to catch Ricochet, a big favorite for acrobat types. They're amazing. But they were having major sound troubles, which was frustrating for them and for the audience. We saw Sweet Can (my very favorite group of all) but again the sound difficulties nearly killed their show. I heard that Matt White, the Sweet Can choreographer/coach, saw our show the next day (Saturday) at Stage Left. That's excellent; the Saturday show was our best, IMO.
We decided to cut a bit out of the Birthday routine just before the Triple-Base pyramid. It worked splendidly. :)
We got food at the Hospitality Tent... delicious. Iced Chai was great, and the vegan cookies were exquisite. It was odd to see Creature sitting at a picnic table at Fair with a laptop, doing business stuff. I stunted with Amy a bit... I kept bumping into her but she was always off doing stuff, as was I.
I bumped into Claire and hung out with her for a bit. Very cool. She's so awesome. I also saw Emily, and Dutch and I busked for cigarettes which was pretty sweet. I did a one-legged stand on his shoulder and people were all manner of impressed even though I felt like it was pretty silly. I also did a while-smoking backflip, which always draws praise. And a handstand-against-a-tree into a one-arm-handstand so that I can take a drag from my smoke. I didn't do the drink-a-beer-in-a-handstand trick all weekend, hm.
Then it was back to camp for a bit before heading over to the fire show at the outdoor stage. The stage was amazing... it covered half a football field and provided an enormous stage area. Scarlett and I had gone through our stuff on Friday and felt comfortable with it. There was a huge choir & orchestra, and tons of fire performers. I just sat back and relaxed for a while as amazing fire and music erupted on the stage. Then Scarlett's number came up and I put on my black hood and went onstage.
I only had 4 or 5 mostly simple lifts. Between those I knelt down and became as unobtrusive as possible. We did a spinning Angel, a spinning Arabesque (the foot-plant kind) into a spinning Arabesque (the back-arch in the air kind), a Hello Dolly (aka T-rolldown minus the rolldown portion), and finally a one-shoulder sit that arched back into a "flopped over Scott's shoulder" kind of deal. But then Scarlett told me it was time to get off stage, so I bolted without realizing that the fire dancers were carrying the fabric to drape over Scarlett. I was later told that they kept trying to catch me to drape it over her, as I walked offstage and up the center aisle with her. Humiliating... but overall the show went well. And I got mad props about it... apparently our stuff was "large" enough to be clearly seen. Scarlett's swan-wings costume is incredible, and it must look great when she's lifted up in it. Quite a few people told me how neat it all was. It felt a little silly... 4-5 simple lifts. *shrug* It's hard to know what people are gonna dig or not dig, I suppose.
All of my people were locked into the audience and I have learned that hunting people at OCF is a great way to spend several hours being alone. I just went to bed at around 10:00, which was lame because I could hear wild fun taking place everywhere around and I wanted to participate but all of the people I knew were off elsewhere. At the same time... an early night is a good thing and I really enjoyed getting a full night of sleep.
We carted our mats & gear to the Daredevil Stage, utilizing Noah's voice alongside Dutch's height to clear a path. It worked well, and people didn't even seem upset at stepping aside for a cart full of mats & costumes. The show went fairly well, although the Triple Base pyramid didn't have time to extend. That damn stunt has given us more trouble...
Highlights included watching James shadow Julia's bellydance routine to "I'm a Woman - W-O-M-A-N", as well as Dutch modeling our new Kazum panties. The stage managers were delightfully friendly and everything went stunningly. Since our next show was there the next morning we were permitted to leave our mats and the bulk of our gear there overnight... saved us a lot of schlepping. We did the "Make Way for the Cart" roar all the way back to Stage Left, then we hurried over to W.C. Fields stage to catch Ricochet, a big favorite for acrobat types. They're amazing. But they were having major sound troubles, which was frustrating for them and for the audience. We saw Sweet Can (my very favorite group of all) but again the sound difficulties nearly killed their show. I heard that Matt White, the Sweet Can choreographer/coach, saw our show the next day (Saturday) at Stage Left. That's excellent; the Saturday show was our best, IMO.
We decided to cut a bit out of the Birthday routine just before the Triple-Base pyramid. It worked splendidly. :)
We got food at the Hospitality Tent... delicious. Iced Chai was great, and the vegan cookies were exquisite. It was odd to see Creature sitting at a picnic table at Fair with a laptop, doing business stuff. I stunted with Amy a bit... I kept bumping into her but she was always off doing stuff, as was I.
I bumped into Claire and hung out with her for a bit. Very cool. She's so awesome. I also saw Emily, and Dutch and I busked for cigarettes which was pretty sweet. I did a one-legged stand on his shoulder and people were all manner of impressed even though I felt like it was pretty silly. I also did a while-smoking backflip, which always draws praise. And a handstand-against-a-tree into a one-arm-handstand so that I can take a drag from my smoke. I didn't do the drink-a-beer-in-a-handstand trick all weekend, hm.
Then it was back to camp for a bit before heading over to the fire show at the outdoor stage. The stage was amazing... it covered half a football field and provided an enormous stage area. Scarlett and I had gone through our stuff on Friday and felt comfortable with it. There was a huge choir & orchestra, and tons of fire performers. I just sat back and relaxed for a while as amazing fire and music erupted on the stage. Then Scarlett's number came up and I put on my black hood and went onstage.
I only had 4 or 5 mostly simple lifts. Between those I knelt down and became as unobtrusive as possible. We did a spinning Angel, a spinning Arabesque (the foot-plant kind) into a spinning Arabesque (the back-arch in the air kind), a Hello Dolly (aka T-rolldown minus the rolldown portion), and finally a one-shoulder sit that arched back into a "flopped over Scott's shoulder" kind of deal. But then Scarlett told me it was time to get off stage, so I bolted without realizing that the fire dancers were carrying the fabric to drape over Scarlett. I was later told that they kept trying to catch me to drape it over her, as I walked offstage and up the center aisle with her. Humiliating... but overall the show went well. And I got mad props about it... apparently our stuff was "large" enough to be clearly seen. Scarlett's swan-wings costume is incredible, and it must look great when she's lifted up in it. Quite a few people told me how neat it all was. It felt a little silly... 4-5 simple lifts. *shrug* It's hard to know what people are gonna dig or not dig, I suppose.
All of my people were locked into the audience and I have learned that hunting people at OCF is a great way to spend several hours being alone. I just went to bed at around 10:00, which was lame because I could hear wild fun taking place everywhere around and I wanted to participate but all of the people I knew were off elsewhere. At the same time... an early night is a good thing and I really enjoyed getting a full night of sleep.
Labels: 2009, kazum, OCF, Oregon Country Fair, Scarlett
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