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SAJC's annual dance concert hits ESPLANADE again in 2008!

yay, happy shot of seniors on day 1 :) In the holding room waiting for our turn to do blocking. In the mean time, Jilyn decides to punch Xwei's face (the poor girl), Weiliang is standing by in shock and horror, I'm throwing something in Amelia's face and Amelia opens her arm for easier target.

waiting...waiting..waiting. In the mean time we were also stuffing our faces with Donuts, chocolates and cream puffs!!

Taupok!

Gordon's birthday shot. His very sweet girlfriend came down to surprise him with a cake after the day ended.

princess and batman shot.

Alumni!
it was aweeesome working with all these guys!

shall not explain these 2 photos...

DAY 2

Musa's item, Once Upon A Time.

I was there as calefare, very fun! I went on stage to "die", get dragged out and then spent the rest of the item "haunting" the little kids in black. Our dances all have very complicated story lines...

Once Upon A Time and VK's/Keisha's hiphop item - PYT (Pretty Young Things)

Gordon and I at rehearsal for Behind Closed Doors, Jil's and my item!

This year we engaged the help of 3 very strong male dancers (gordon, guofeng, chinhow) and our item became VAVAVOOM! So thankful for their help because without them our item would not have been half as exciting as it was. Super grateful because they are not even from SAJC or anything and yet agreed to help!

Well if you ever get a change to watch the performance, if it gets uploaded onto youtube or something, our dance was supposed to be about Love... sounds so cliche right but the word Love encompasses a whole lot of other things...Romance, lust, passion, seduction, sorrow, anguish, betrayal...what you can possibly feel out of a relationship. We tried to portray the darker and bleak side.

Ah what jaded choreographers we are hahah!

When the lights came on we heard the audience leering and then someone shouted "OUI!" and then there was laughter, zommggg..almost seemed like dejavu like when Scarlet Fever opened.

Guess we cant blame the audience as we were wearing what was supposed to look like lingerie and we even had 3 mattresses for props to make it look like a bedroom scene. We were aiming for maturity this year and i think we got it..?! honestly, there was nothing explicitly/sexual about the dance so the wolf whistles were very off.

stage make up

Actually it wasnt that heavy this year. I think a lot of girls go out looking like this actually.

Balloon from Once Upon A Time

A very himbo moment from Musa who forgets that you need HELIUM for the balloon to float..

Why are the boys more seductive than me?? What sluts!!! haha :)

End of the show and a random shot.

This year was extra special, because, believe it or not, the SAJC RUGGERS were dancing! Real shocker of the night, in a good way of course. The first time i saw them on stage i thought they were just going to do the hakka, pose and run off. Imagine my AMAZEMENT and disbelief when they actually started dancing choreographed steps!! I nearly died. WOWWWW. Commendable effort and i'm glad they had a chance to work with the dancers! They opened the show really nicely!

We also had reaaallyyy cute kids dancing for us! ACSI Primary and Kids on the move which has some super rockin' little girls!

Anyway for those of you who want to catch Rapture, just go to Youtube and google RAPTURE @ ESPLANADE 2008. ALl the items are up except for the alumni pieces. :/ My personal favourite items were Hot Ride, and of course to see ruggers dancing, watch the opening performance.But of course all the items looked and felt so much better in real life!

(AND YVONNE!! I SAW YOUR BF's BROTHER!)

Labels: Dance Performance, Rapture

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