Dance show (media consumption over 48 hours)

Blogging is a relatively new and exciting prospect to me, so instead of writing what i actually did on sunday in the last post, i thought i'd use this as an excuse to write another post...and make it look like i have done that little bit more work. Okay so sunday evening i actually went to a relatively foreign land in my life. Oakengates theater, also known as 'The Place' ( imaginative name i know). I must admit i thoroughly enjoyed it, i was there to watch the ever lovely Emma Cleary dancing with her 'crew' in a disney themed dance show. She was with a large dance school called dance connection with ages varying from 4 to 18 participating in the show. The show was 2 hours and 30 minutes long and had a large variety of different dances, needless to say my personal favourites were the teen's dances, thats not me being biased towards Emma's participation in these it is more to do with the...interesting costumes that alot of them were wearing. I must admit within past dance shows in which i have been to watch dance connection perform, I have been unable to really appreciate the dances, however within this show i was reignited with feelings of nostalgia and recognition as numbers of my old childhood favourite disney films were re-enacted through dance. Behind the dancers there was also a powerpoint playing showing clips and images from the original films that the songs/ dances were extracted from. The lion king, for instance was danced to by a number of small children aged between 4-6 years old i would say, however through their dance the foundations of the lion king were easily recognisable, with the rest of the pack looking up to the alpha male as their leader in various situations and following the alpha lions footsteps. This was shown through the way the only male dancer was placed centre stage (wearing a male lion costume) with the other dancers placed to the sides of him, they would then follow in his movements as if he was their 'leader of the pack'. On top of the dances there was a celebrity guest appearance, Katie Collins the pride of Albrighton herself, who also sang a mix together of different disney songs within one song, it was put together really well and armed with just her acoustic guitar she serenaded the whole theater. At one point during the dance show i even attempted to spark off a standing ovation, however was instantly flooded with embarrasment as i stood there clapping in the middle of the theatre, and everyone else just sat there staring at me. I have no idea how the dancers could stand having all these people watching them perform as i must admit my brief experience into that feeling was absolutely terrifying. Other than that i feel the night was truly exceptional and my congratulations go straight out to all the dancers and other performers who performed that night.