Sunday,
October 21, 2007
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Greetings
fellow spotdancers, dancespotters,
dancers, homos, homodancespots.
This
weeks Top Spot News Story: Halloween homodanceshow a
Success. See below.
Upcoming
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The Top Spot News
Story: Halloween homodanceshow a Success.
A
frightful night avoided, as people really did show up for the first ever Halloween
homodanceshow. Late afternoon filled the dance venue with a
great group of homodancespot decorators- not quite in the same vein as queer
eye for the straight guy, but still queer eye as the cheesy orange and black
crepe paper was dangled precariously about the room- that was a bit of a fiasco
– but ended being fairly festive.
Scippola did some last minute music compilations- thank goodness- making
the evening show tunes run nearly unfaultered for our gracious yet jamming DJ:
Jammin Jo. The treats table overflowed
with numerous baked good items. I guess
the warning that there was a chance that there might only be some scimpy rice crispy
bars prompted the bakers to come out in droves.
I especially appreciated that. There were cup cakes and Minnie cupcakes,
chips and salsa, potato chips, brownies along with those scimpy rice crispy
bars. A beautiful bouquet of flowers
home grown and hand picked- thank you Cindy and Elena, welcomed the evenings
guests. Other decorations included real
hay bales, carved pumpkins and spider webs.
The
early evening arrived quickly as decorators, soon to be performers, attempted
to get into their Halloween garb.
Initial fright turned into supreme challenge as performers attempted
makeup application in bathrooms that refused to shed any light on the subject,
in the end the makeup turned out a bit more ghoulish than planned, but
considering the night well – an added benefit.
The crowd arrived around the 7:00 hour, programs were handed out (thanks
Annette and Cindy for their creation and for the last minute Kinko run), the
lights were dimmed and social dancing commenced. For those costumed there were several
pirates and a plane, a cowboy and a pumkin, prisoner and a cop, a kitten/dominatrix, a vampire and a
dentist, an edelweiss couple, and a fem/butch - oops(or was that a butch/fem). There were also numerous well dressed
ballroom dancers, and the casual dressed were still welcomed and made up the
remaining crowd. At 7:30 the show
began. Heintje opened with a special
treat- in drag- singing and dancing and nearly losing all his clothing along
the way. Next, Heather and Sunny performed a West Coast
Swing, doing a lot of twirling, which I liked because Heather was wearing a
great twirling skirt. Cindy and Elena
followed with a nice Foxtrot number. The
partner Cha Cha with Sue and Kate, Denae and Cindy and Sunny and Heather began the latin lineup. Heintje and Jenny amazed the crowd with their
Rumba and the first half was wrapped up with the Pride parade cha cha line
dance with Elly, Sue, Monica, Zoe, Adrienne, Cindy, Denae , Kate, and Heintje
performing.
Cindy
amazingly go t the entire crowd onto
their feet and taught ‘em all the samba line dance- I think they were
kind of amazed too. Social dancing
continued for a darn good while until the second half of the show commenced. Opening were Heintje and Mills with a twisted
jive- Cindy your costume kept us all enthralled. Sue and Cindy followed with their Salsa
number(we didn’t give Cindy much time to costume change J)
that they used for competition at
California Dreaming. A haunting partner
Waltz followed with Lauren and Courtney, Kate and Denae, Heather and Sunny and
Cindy and Elena. The Cha Cha formation
team wrapped up the evening with a super number, Heintje choreographer, and
Monica,Cindy, Sue, Adrienne, Jose and Zoe performing. The entire performing crew did one last samba
line dance and then the dance floor remained open for social dancing into the
wee hours.
A
huge thank you goes out to all whom performed and attended. We might just do this all again next year.
Until
next time- keep your partners happy, don’t dance crappy, and with any
luck see you in The Spot News.