On 01/05/2011 20:49, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Epic failure.

There was really only one good thing about this whole day, and that was 
watching some of the team events.

Most of the events involve either solos or pairs dancing against each 
other. Nobody really takes much notice [other than the judges - 
hopefully]. But for the team events, one bunch of a dozen or so people 
has the whole floor to themselves, dancing big complicated coordinated 
dance routines, and that gets a bit of attention from the crowd.

All of the teams got the obligatory reluctant applause when they arrived 
and when they left. A few of them got some applause when they did 
something unusual or impressive. But nobody got quite the reaction that 
my school's adult dance team got.

They were all dressed as pirates, and they danced to [some club remix 
of] the theme tune to Pirates of the Caribbean. It starts off quite 
slow, but once it kicked up into top gear, the audience reaction was 
phenomenal. And I don't just mean the rest of our school was cheering 
them along; everybody got their own fans doing that. But when our guys 
danced, the entire place went berserk. The atmosphere was electric. I 
remember standing there and saying out loud "if we haven't won this, I 
want to know why". Obviously, we did win. [Apparently we usually do. 
We're that good.]

It was probably worth seeing that.

Some of our other teams were quite good too [although nobody from any 
school got quite the same reaction as our pirates]. I felt kind of sorry 
for the rather brilliant team of 4 year olds who danced completely 
unsupervised in the middle of a big empty dance floor and made it look 
fabulous. They danced so well, but they were the *only* team to enter 
for that event, so they won by default. Which is a pity, because they 
were so good, I'm sure they could have thrashed anybody else who dared 
to challenge them.

There was also I team of teenage girls in red and black suits. I'm not 
sure whether they were ours or not, but the crowd loved it when one of 
them jumped up on top of the group and did some acrobatics across the 
surface of their outstretched arms.

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