We participated in this last year and I think everyone agrees this was one of the highlights of last year, if not the last few years.
This year is going to be even more spectacular: we will team up with Angelo Salgado's Groove Brazil dance school, resulting in a massive performance of 65 drummers and dancers in the middle of SunCorp Stadium, at half time at an international soccer match. How good is that?
It gets even better: we have also been asked to help out the day before the match for promotions in the city, at Reddacliff place, next to the new City Council. This will be part of a full day promotion, starting at 7am (can you believe it?) to about midnight.
The schedule is as follows (some details might change):
Friday 11 July, Reddacliff place (George Street in the city):
- 12:35pm Samba School performance
- 1.30pm-2pm Samba School leading parade with dancers from Groove Brazil
- Approx 4pm: workshop/performance at concourse in front of stadium
- 5pm: 5 minute performance on field
- 6.30pm: BIG performance on field with Groove Brazil (65 performers!)
- 7.45pm: Another BIG performance on field
One of the on-field performances will be absolutely spectacular, involving two teams of percussionists/dancers, each dressed in the team colours of either Roar (orange) or Palmeiras (green) and me dressed as a referee (I already have a whistle), with 'competitive' interaction between the two teams, followed by a merge of the two teams who will then perform together. Some choreography to be practiced!
Given the complexity of it all, I will prepare a running sheet that you can print out, this will be posted on the Blog somewhere this week.
We only have two rehearsals to go for this, and we need to practice with Groove Brazil too. I haven't fully thought this through yet, again more details later, but I'd appreciate everyone's attendance during the next two rehearsals. These rehearsals will be free of charge for everyone who participates in these performances.
I hope you're all as excited as I am!
6 comments:
Do we get to keep the shirts? If so, I wanna be Palmeiras. :)
As long as we don't neglect the large number of beginners whom we did so well to attract last week, I'm OK with it.
May be we need a special day just to rehearse with Groove Brazil without alienating the beginners ?
Good to hear from you Marcel .
Can we draft the beginners to the Qld Roars gig on Saturday as " apprentice shakers " ? Boosts their egos, and we'll look and sound much more impressive too.
Don't worry about the beginners Brian, I'll find a spot for them too!
And I don't remember asking for your permission ;-)
Don't mean to but I don't want to lose them. The feed back were so positive and they have so much fun....and me too !.
Less sambistas put more pressure on all of us to perform in every gigs.
ah yes, the pressure, Brian. I don't know how you deal with it - boom, boom-boom, it can all get too much for a normal bloke!
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