Rocket's Tail

25 October 2013

Song by Kate Bush (here)

That November night, looking up into the sky,
You said,
"Hey, wish that was me up there
It's the biggest rocket I could find,
And it's holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment
I can't see the look in its eyes,
But I'm sure it must be laughing."

Burn2 was absolutely the number one highlight of the year! It was a super fun event, in general, but the Rogue camp, was not only a beautiful build, but a hub of music and dancing for the whole week. GB troupe members did many mini-shows there, but I only managed to do my regularly scheduled Friday night act. I had grand plans to do more but those just did not pan out. Next year though, watch out, I have grand plans that I will start earlier in the summer.

The stage was the back of a flatbed semi, so the sky was the limit on the builds, and I used the opportunity to fly. I had seen a fine art piece of Roctopi and a woman in a space suit a while back.  Encouraged by Sho to make an act out of it, I did a quick keyword search in my music library, and voila, I had the perfect song. It was too easy, synchronicity, knew I had to do it, sometime, but when it came time to conceptualize the set I felt constrained by the normal stage. The Burn2 stage was perfect.

I let the song tell the story. As with most of Kate Bush's music, the lyrics weave a yarn of beauty and weirdness. It was a whole new realm of choreo for me since I could fly, and I bought a bunch of mer dances for this one.  That was a challenge and a delight to make it all come together.  

I recruited Meegan and Glori for the RocKracken (costume parts availability made the roctopi evolve). They came out for the second half of the song that has lovely voices of Trio Bulgarka. 

The whole act and the timing conflicts with RL, made me not think too much about documentation on set with Meegs and Glori, luckily I got a good shot with them dropped in my inventory from a fan, Leroy Horton.

Next year I have a whole Kate Bush mini-show planned, there is a series of songs that just cannot be separated.  I would like to gift it to the Burn2 community and thank them in advance for allowing me such a grand indulgence.

Take Me I'm Yours

11 October 2013

Song by Squeeze - Andrea Corr cover (here)

"I come across the desert to greet you with a smile."

This act appeared when I needed it most. It was one of my, now typical, moments when the act I planned is just not cutting it, usually for some schism between my vision and my abilities/SL realities or a general loss of enthusiasm. I was a week into a different act and it was just not coming together so I had to switch gears.

I heard Andrea Corr version of the song on Radio Paradise, and remembered that the original was on my "long list" (the list of songs I have in mind but not on the official GB song list that we share as a troupe). Any way, as I am prone to, I loved this one because it is a cover done by a female. Since I do not use emotes, I really like for my songs to be done by a woman when I want the lyrics to serve as a narrative. *points back to "Sexual Healing" from February*

The camels were exciting at first, "awww aren't they cute?" But once I started to work with them, I got a dose of reality. They are stubborn even when they are prims and being short on time did not help any at all. I felt spat upon, more than once.

I did take the traditional route on this one since I had not done a belly dance act as of yet.  But it really was not a belly dance, I used other styles of dance.