Gospel Xmas
The first time I have ever been to a church and had the taste of blood in my mouth afterwards. And I'm not talking about the communion wine! xP
The local Gospel Choir had their annual Christmas concert yesterday, and I was dancing there with a friend as 'special guest stars' in the last three numbers ("Jesus, Oh What A Wonderful Child", "Old Landmark" from Blues Brothers and "Joy To The World"). It had long been a dream of the choir leader to get dancers to the Xmas spectacular, and this year she made it come true. However, we were a bit excited how'd people react to danicng in a church, but it seems that people had been enjoying the show. It's just that the (older) Lutherians can sometimes be terribly old-fashioned and clinging to old traditions and dos & dont's at times, so they might find dancing in a church a bit herecy. e_e; (after all, we did dance jazz and hiphop style, not some modern slow-motioned praising dance that women sometimes do here...)
The choir members were excited and liked our part in the performance a lot. They were always asking us "What, are you sweatty?" after each song, and I'd wipe of huge sweat drops off my forehead and reply "Oh no! These are just tears of joy that are overwhelming." :D I mean, I enjoyed it so much being able to be a dancer after such a long time. No need to sing one single note or say one single line in the whole show. Just dance-dance-dance!
Well, my parents were watching and they liked it a lot. (Well, I'll hear more specific critic today, once I get everything packed and leave to Riihimäki,after allmy father is a choir singer himself. ^^) And my dancing partner's parents. And his girl friend. But then....
We had an after party with the choir in a nearby pub, and there were lots of my friends who all had been to the concert sitting in the pub already when I came. But not a single word about the concert. They didn't even ask me if I'd like to join their table. They just nodded at my direction when they saw me and continued to talk with one of the solo performers sitting in the same table.
All I wanted to hear was 'thanks for the show'. I mean, I don't care if they liked it or not, but... If they didn't like it, I would've liked to talk with them to know why not. But this... This is worse. Now I really feel like they didn't like our dancing at all. And... I was there for several hours. But not once did any of them come over to my table. Many choir members came by, the choir leader visited, my dancing mate sat there with his girl friend most of the time. But not the people I most wanted to dance for - my friends.
After I was putting on my jacket and some of the girls in the other table noticed I was going to leave, they started to make sulking faces at me. I mean, I guess they wanted me to stay and get drunk with 'em, but... After three hours of being air to them all, I could care less what they wanted. I felt so bad. I'm actually quite surprised that I feel like this - I'm not good at recieving compliments from what I do, but I think it's human to want to be acknowledged at least. Like it or don't like it, but please, as artists yourselves (which they all were), appreciate the effort! Sheez~...
Well, I'm leaving to Riihimäki. Will be back in Lahti on Boxing Day.
Have a peaceful Christmas everybody and eat lots of ham/turkey/peas/casseroles/mashed potatos/candy/gingerbread men/chocolate/whatever you like best in xmas dishes. \o/ Ho ho ho~!!
The local Gospel Choir had their annual Christmas concert yesterday, and I was dancing there with a friend as 'special guest stars' in the last three numbers ("Jesus, Oh What A Wonderful Child", "Old Landmark" from Blues Brothers and "Joy To The World"). It had long been a dream of the choir leader to get dancers to the Xmas spectacular, and this year she made it come true. However, we were a bit excited how'd people react to danicng in a church, but it seems that people had been enjoying the show. It's just that the (older) Lutherians can sometimes be terribly old-fashioned and clinging to old traditions and dos & dont's at times, so they might find dancing in a church a bit herecy. e_e; (after all, we did dance jazz and hiphop style, not some modern slow-motioned praising dance that women sometimes do here...)
The choir members were excited and liked our part in the performance a lot. They were always asking us "What, are you sweatty?" after each song, and I'd wipe of huge sweat drops off my forehead and reply "Oh no! These are just tears of joy that are overwhelming." :D I mean, I enjoyed it so much being able to be a dancer after such a long time. No need to sing one single note or say one single line in the whole show. Just dance-dance-dance!
Well, my parents were watching and they liked it a lot. (Well, I'll hear more specific critic today, once I get everything packed and leave to Riihimäki,after allmy father is a choir singer himself. ^^) And my dancing partner's parents. And his girl friend. But then....
We had an after party with the choir in a nearby pub, and there were lots of my friends who all had been to the concert sitting in the pub already when I came. But not a single word about the concert. They didn't even ask me if I'd like to join their table. They just nodded at my direction when they saw me and continued to talk with one of the solo performers sitting in the same table.
All I wanted to hear was 'thanks for the show'. I mean, I don't care if they liked it or not, but... If they didn't like it, I would've liked to talk with them to know why not. But this... This is worse. Now I really feel like they didn't like our dancing at all. And... I was there for several hours. But not once did any of them come over to my table. Many choir members came by, the choir leader visited, my dancing mate sat there with his girl friend most of the time. But not the people I most wanted to dance for - my friends.
After I was putting on my jacket and some of the girls in the other table noticed I was going to leave, they started to make sulking faces at me. I mean, I guess they wanted me to stay and get drunk with 'em, but... After three hours of being air to them all, I could care less what they wanted. I felt so bad. I'm actually quite surprised that I feel like this - I'm not good at recieving compliments from what I do, but I think it's human to want to be acknowledged at least. Like it or don't like it, but please, as artists yourselves (which they all were), appreciate the effort! Sheez~...
Well, I'm leaving to Riihimäki. Will be back in Lahti on Boxing Day.
Have a peaceful Christmas everybody and eat lots of ham/turkey/peas/casseroles/mashed potatos/candy/gingerbread men/chocolate/whatever you like best in xmas dishes. \o/ Ho ho ho~!!