Denver Day 4
May. 25th, 2007 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerA day I thought was going to be a relaxing day turned out to be filled with commitments!
Started the day with a quick trip to Einstein's Bagels, then back to the hotel dancing and observing the callers from the GCA school at the 10am to noon dance. NOTHING was set up in advance except the flooring, so I went up to the room to grab my sound equipment for the dance. When we all got back downstairs, the sound guys were setting the room up, so we hauled my own equipment back upstairs. The new callers did a pretty decent job and I was proud of them. I remember how much nerve there is doing something like this in front of several squares of your peers.
A few minutes before that dance ended, Kris and I headed off with Bear Miller to get our costumes for the trails-end dance. After the fittings and such, we came back downtown for a lunch at Mad Greens and put the evening's dance together. Another trip back to the hotel to check out the music in the room we were to call in.
Got in a quick nap after that, but the 5pm GCA meeting was creeping up fast, but made that with time to spare. I left that meeting at 6, so I could get to the caller reception in Jorge's suite up in the nose-bleed heights of the hotel. Then I left THAT early, so the four of us could get our costumes up for the dance...when we paraded in, there were probably already 15 squares on the floor, and that swelled to 40 or so by the end of the first hour.
The abysmal thing about that 3 hour dance was the horrible sound that the dancers (and we) had to put up with. Just dreadful. No matter what we did to try to correct the levels and such, it just never got better. A lot of the Wilde Bunchers had shown up during the day, so it was great to see the new dancers jump in there and get their feet wet.
But that dance finally ended...we did 13 tips in 3 hours, mostly Mainstream and Plus with a spattering of A2. I'm not sure I'd call a trails-end dance again unless the sounding of the halls could be made better. The room we were dancing in was VAST with extremely high ceilings and a mix of rock or metal walls which did bad things acoustically.
The after party was fun in the lobby bar, with a huge number of acquaintances and friends from years gone by showing up for a good schooze. The lobby bar was NOT ready for the huge amount of business!
Get to sleep in tomorrow. My first hour (advanced) isn't until 11am!
Started the day with a quick trip to Einstein's Bagels, then back to the hotel dancing and observing the callers from the GCA school at the 10am to noon dance. NOTHING was set up in advance except the flooring, so I went up to the room to grab my sound equipment for the dance. When we all got back downstairs, the sound guys were setting the room up, so we hauled my own equipment back upstairs. The new callers did a pretty decent job and I was proud of them. I remember how much nerve there is doing something like this in front of several squares of your peers.
A few minutes before that dance ended, Kris and I headed off with Bear Miller to get our costumes for the trails-end dance. After the fittings and such, we came back downtown for a lunch at Mad Greens and put the evening's dance together. Another trip back to the hotel to check out the music in the room we were to call in.
Got in a quick nap after that, but the 5pm GCA meeting was creeping up fast, but made that with time to spare. I left that meeting at 6, so I could get to the caller reception in Jorge's suite up in the nose-bleed heights of the hotel. Then I left THAT early, so the four of us could get our costumes up for the dance...when we paraded in, there were probably already 15 squares on the floor, and that swelled to 40 or so by the end of the first hour.
The abysmal thing about that 3 hour dance was the horrible sound that the dancers (and we) had to put up with. Just dreadful. No matter what we did to try to correct the levels and such, it just never got better. A lot of the Wilde Bunchers had shown up during the day, so it was great to see the new dancers jump in there and get their feet wet.
But that dance finally ended...we did 13 tips in 3 hours, mostly Mainstream and Plus with a spattering of A2. I'm not sure I'd call a trails-end dance again unless the sounding of the halls could be made better. The room we were dancing in was VAST with extremely high ceilings and a mix of rock or metal walls which did bad things acoustically.
The after party was fun in the lobby bar, with a huge number of acquaintances and friends from years gone by showing up for a good schooze. The lobby bar was NOT ready for the huge amount of business!
Get to sleep in tomorrow. My first hour (advanced) isn't until 11am!
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Date: 2007-05-25 07:01 am (UTC)fabuloushawt.Great job with the dance! (And yes, the sound sucked ass!)
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Date: 2007-05-25 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-25 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-25 04:22 pm (UTC)As I remember, the sound in Santa Clara (my first trail-in dance) was pretty awful and not only when half the speakers weren't working.
As someone trying to learn how to call, I'm struggling to find how to learn the skills myself for how to sound difficult halls, but you kind of expect the big guys to know how.