One of the many great songs that we’re performing in our Autumn concert this year is ‘New York, New York’. You’ll hardly be able to resist joining in with us when that one gets going will you. Anyway it’s the sort of song that you can’t sing without flinging aside all of your caution and with wild abandon grabbing hold of those nearest to you so that you can all kick your legs up - occasionally even in time with the music.
So given that is my usual approach to the song, you can probably imagine my worries when I found out last night that this time around I have to perform controlled movement, without grabbing hold of anyone and just kicking my legs in the air.
You know from my previous blogs that getting the movement right is always a challenge - I wonder whether a lack of synchronicity is hard wired in to the male mentality. So it was a huge relief last night to discover that occasionally ladies suffer from the same worries about lunging when they should be doing heel raises, or swaying when they should be doing step digs. Hooray, it’s not just me.
So there we all are with the delightful, and not at all scary, Liz choreographing us from the front of the room, quietly muttering to ourselves walk, two, three, dig, walk, two three dig, when there was the sudden realisation that we should actually have been singing something more on the lines of “those little town blues!”
Ah well, I know that with a few more weeks work, and repeated practice of the song, the whole thing will sound and look fantastic at the show.
Tickets are now on sale and are going quite fast considering we’re in the middle of school holidays. So if you haven’t had chance to call Andrea and get yours just yet, then now is the time! Give Andrea a call on 01332882909 and get your order in. We can guarantee you a great performance and a real toe tapping sing along show.
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