Guess who wasn't ready for the picture? If you guessed sullen-face-Cassidy with the bow in her hair, you'd be right.
You seek explanation? Very well. This past month I was away from the internet (zooks! zounds! egads!) and any semblance of normalcy. My life was deliciously turned topsy turvy; I was on tour with a folk dance team from BYU, visiting 58 elementary schools to perform for children. What exactly did we do? We shared worldwide culture with kids by showing them dances from:
South Africa, Russia, Korea, Colombia, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ireland, Mexico, the United States, and we even did a Yiddish dance.
Four weeks hanging around these beautiful people? Cant beat that!
This is the dance from Colombia. I'm the saucy one in the pink skirt. Half way through our final number in the show (Ukraine), we pose. Everyone thinks the song is over and starts to clap, but no-- we're not done. Then it happens again (cue clapping? not yet) and then the music stops again-- okay NOW we're really finished. Reminds me of an orchestra performance when people start clapping before the third movement has really ended and "...diminuendo sheepishly."
Shown below is our first POSE-BUT-THE-SHOW'S-NOT-OVER-YET moment. My eye scrunching smile is visible front and center (which is slightly to the right from the camera's angle). Heaven and saints be praised, I finally got to wear those red boots! Huzzah!
Proof that I've done Hopak? Check.
P.S. A true story addendum to the top picture.
Friend #1: Bacchus elementary? Wasn't Bacchus the Greek god of... something dirty?
Rachel: Wine and Revelry. And it's Roman, actually-- Bacchus is the Roman form of the Greek's Dionysus.
Friend #2: Geez, do you know everything about that stuff?
Rachel: Not complicated, chief. Cartoon education--Bacchus is in Fantasia.
Friend #1: No way!
Rachel: Dude with the splashing-wine goblet and the nymphs. Yes way.
Friend #2: Hey, you're right-- that guy is in Fantasia.
...
(A moment later)
Principal: Are you with the BYU assembly?
Friend #2: We sure are! *dimpled smile*
Principal: We're so excited to have you all here.
Friend #2: Thanks so much, we're glad to be here too.
Rachel: (rudely interrupts by raising her hand) I have a question.
Principal: Okay.
Rachel: Please tell me you didn't name your elementary school after the ancient god of wine and revelry.
Principal: Our school is named for Thomas W. Bacchus, the distinguished founder of our city.
Rachel: Good! Cause I was gonna say...
Friend #1: You'll have to excuse her. She gets carried away with mythology.
Rachel: (glares playfully at Friend #1) You get no cookies from me. Tee hee.
5 comments:
Yea!!! I get to see your mug! Love the red boots!!!
HOORAY FOR THE RED BOOTS OF INFAMY
Such boots are only infamous to those who have not been priviledged to wear them. For one who has had such blessed luck, they are delightful. (Especially since they now come in soft sole which allows you to point your toes..... *sigh*)
So glad to see that you are blogging again. Once again our lives can be enriched through your wit and revelry. You know, if you took your name, and combined it with Bacchus, let's just say that we would have a wine goddess with a whole lot of energy, and more wit than an English comedy.
Bacchus is also in Prince Caspian (the book), as well as mentioned in Milton's Comus. (I can't recall, but I believe that Comus is, in fact, the son of Bacchus and Circe.)
:-D
And welcome back! I've missed you! (Not just your blogs, but you!)
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