Day Three

Here's a belated peek at our activities for day three. Most of us can't sleep at night due to different time zones, so day three started off kind of slow. I woke up at 2 pm and I was an early bird, if you get what I'm saying. But from then on we did a lot of stuff. We filmed some intro-shots in kimono's (or at least we'd like to think the hotel bath robes we kind of stole are kimono's). We had dinner at a really good Ramen place. Caprice did a workshop with four local artists which was cool. Then we were off to the festival site, where we rehearsed with the dancers. Here goes:

Sweet

So yesterday we met up with the SHISHEI dancers. SHISHEI is actually the name of this group's sensei. The dancers have been working hard on their dances to our songs. This is the first time the two of those came together. This is like the raw basics. In the next couple of days this will be smoothed out for the show. Though it looks pretty cool to me already.

Time zones

It's 03.21 in the morning right now. I feel like we are on a school trip. Which is fun of cours, but you don't sleep on school trips. So as long as I'm awake, I figured I could as well post some stuff about our second day here, which was very interesting. We had a look at the festival terrain which was rural to say the least. Mudsliding is allowed :) We visited our first exhibition of the festival. A work by James Turrell. If you know, you know. And we had our first rehearsal. Without further a due a whole batch of pics:

Rock n Roll

Dan dan domo! There you go: 12 hour flight, 5 hour bus ride, beer, sake and a party in 24 hours without breaking a sweat. No that's a lie. I sweated a lot, especially during the turbulence in the air. But: we made it over Siberia safe and sound. We even had our first party, which was very cool. Traditional dance and song. A lot of cool people. I don't know how rock n rollers live their life, but my guess it feels kind of like today.

Putting in work!

I wanted to keep you guys posted about the progress we're making. Look at these guys. They're putting in work! Sweating even! Keep that up. And for all of you in Amsterdam: Come and see our show sunday 26th at 15.00 in the Vondelpark Openluchttheater. It's gonna be good!

And look, I've discovered all these fancy video-transitions and fades. So corny, but I couldn't resist using them!

MC Hammer

I don't know for sure, but I have the feeling this is the official site of the Green Festival. It mentions "Green Festival" and "Nowhere" an awful lot :) Check it out over here. And look, MC Hammer is over there too :)

Mistakes

This is actually the first time we did the set in full, so a lot of it is experimenting and making mistakes. It's gonna be good though. Look out! See if you can spot Kid Sublime's trademark "fist of passion".