mitm diaries, 2006

For the third year, I spent two straight weeks at Dance Mission Theatre, performing in the community hip hop show Mission in the Mix. I have to admit, I was less enthused going into it than I have been in previous years. Ironically, my laissez-faire attitude helped me mellow out - therefore, making me a better dancer :-)

This year, we were in two pieces: "Fire" and "Jammy Jam". Both were fun to the extreme. For "Fire", we had to dress in red and black flame themed clothes... and be HOT. I swear, I've shopped at more stores for strippers, prostitutes, bikers and punk-wannabees for this costume! I ended up making my own damn shirt - and I use the word "shirt" loosely - complete with red-tipped 'fro, black fishnets, red velvet hotpants, and legwarmers.


Me and Courtney, hot like fire ;-)

Jammy Jam was adorable. We dressed in PJ's (Hello Kitty for me, of course). Thank god, because if I had to run around for 2 costumes, I might have just quit! Fire was the more interesting dance piece, but I enjoyed Jammy Jam more, mostly because my costume was so comfy, and I didn't have to worry about taping my boobs in for fear of my shirt falling off.


Jake, me, Courtney, Joy, Alex, Sipei, Alice

Highlights:

• Bert and his myriad of costumes, as usual. His opening with the stuffed lion was hilarious.
  
  
  Bert and Simba
  
  
• Courtney, our resident diva, dancing side-by-side with Navin, a tough guy if you ever saw one. Together, they were our superstars.
  
  
  Courtney, Jake and Navin
  
  
• Forgetting most of my costume on opening night. Had to run down to the corner store and buy the most passable blue shirt... I looked like I was super fresh off the boat!
  
  
• The flame decoration on Kristin's pants. Looks deceivably like glitter glue, but is actually a thong tied to her leg!
  
  
  Kristin shows off her thong tha-thong thong thong
  
  
• Tripping over Bert and landing on my face in the dark during tech. ("OWW!" "You okay?" "Yes - sorta." "Sorry!") We decided to stage our Jammy Jam entrance after that.
  
  
• Ass shaking girls. 'Nuff said.
  
  
  [L-R] Priyanka, Avril, Sophia, Serena, Tara, Jesse
  
  
• Coochie-touching girls. Too much said.
  
  
• Showing up on Friday with cupping bruises on my back. I'd forgotten all about the fact that I was wearing a tube top until about 5 mins after Michelle put the cups on me. Fernando attempted to cover it up with makeup, to no avail.
  
  
  Fernando tried his best
  
  
• Fernando and his duct-taped costume
  
  
• Matt's kick-ass choreography for that song by the Swollen Members. I kid you not.
  
  
  The boys of Group 2 and their, um, Swollen Members
  
  
• The Burrito Club of me, Alex and Tara
  
  
  Alex and I looooove our burritos
  
  
• Wyan looking like he's 4 years old in his Sponge Bob PJs
  
  
  Wyan, SpongeBob and Avery
  
  
• The 2 Serenas and our matching Hello Kitty costumes
  
  

All in all, I'm going to miss seeing peeps every weekend... or day... or hour :-) And dancing with people born in the 90's. The NINETIES. Dear God, I was in college in the 90's.

*sniffle*