Comments | fyfer: dancing for the queen

fyfer

dancing for the queen

Jun 29, 2007 18:23

I still think of myself as a musician more than a dancer. But, regardless of how I got into it, dancing has been a bigger part of my life for the last five years. There's one exception to that these days: the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the massive bagpipe festival. For this event, I'm going to Scotland for a month to play fife with my old fife & ( Read more... )

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tsgeisel June 29 2007, 22:34:41 UTC

Maybe we can get excited and flip out for you? Dude(-ette). You're dancing for the Queen! How cool is that?!?!

fyfer June 30 2007, 21:57:24 UTC

I need the sort of flipping out that makes me go learn my music. :)

lindalee June 29 2007, 22:44:40 UTC

I got to dance for the Queen once! OK, not *exactly*, but my Morris team was hired by the British Consulate to dance for the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebration in MA. Her Majesty's Consul General was there, though, and he complimented us.

I'm really excited for you. :-)

fyfer June 30 2007, 21:59:03 UTC

Cool! By the way, I'm amused by how some of the Morris dancers out here in SF seem to think that it's a local thing... they're startled that I knew about Morris dance before I moved here. ;-) I think that's mostly the people who got into it as yet another folk dance style, not the people who're actually serious about it and go to ales and all.

coraline June 29 2007, 22:55:14 UTC

eeeeeeeeee how awesome!!!

fyfer June 30 2007, 21:47:45 UTC

and that icon reminds me: our summer uniform has a tophat. :)

coraline July 1 2007, 04:57:49 UTC

awesome!

T-Shirt in the Castro: "God save THIS Queen!" acganderson June 30 2007, 01:07:33 UTC

I think my favorite line in this post is :

"...but I'm sure our seamstress is up to the task."

This is the sort of thing that directors and designers say that give costume shops hemorrhages,. Which just makes it that much cooler when it does work out that way.

Get down with your bad self. :)

fyfer June 30 2007, 01:31:38 UTC

She emailed the group recently with a contest: guess how many buttons she's sewn for this trip.

The answer is 2560. Two thousand five hundred sixty buttons. And that's just for this trip - most people had full uniforms already, so that's just for outfitting the alums & ringers who are joining in (like me) and making everyone a second shirt and pair of trousers.

annag July 1 2007, 02:38:33 UTC

Wheee... how exciting!
Now, go practice!
(I wish I had such a wonderful motivation..)