DEVIATION / MARVEL-US
Of course I'd blog about this. :)
I never thought I'd end up dancing. Seriously. Anyone who has seen me attempt to dance (Interact installation 2010 lolol) would know how horrible I am at it, no kid. But I've always liked seeing people dance. And I love watching dance movies! :3
So it was the end of February when Marvel-us were looking for people to join their group before the 2nd audition. I didn't know anyone in the group and at first I was really really really reluctant to join. Trisher eventually talked me into giving it a shot and well, I did. I don't know why I ended up joining anyway. I had endless doubts about this, and as usual, lacked in confidence. (I really gotta thank my bby Mira for being there for me through everything, from Day 1. :))) )
It was a week to 2nd audition and we started spending many hours at Arena for practice. We mostly played around, and the night before 2nd audition was super emotional for everyone. We were far from prepared and did not even practice full routine yet. Arena switches their lights off by 10pm every night so we sat there in the dark until about 11pm. We didn't have any confidence to pass the audition. Heh.
But hey, we ended up passing! :3 Sze Teng and Arven were new members to our group after the audition. And we changed our name to Deviation. Whee.
Everyday during the school holidays we'd spend about 6 hours at Arena. Truth be told, only about 3 hours were spent on solid practice everyday, the other 3 were spent playing around / waiting for others / eating / sleeping / playing futsal. FUTSAL = FUN.
We had a lot of complications. Regarding our choreographer, our routine, our songs, video presentation. Everything. Things started getting stressful for everyone and I started skipping everything for dance. Tuition, handball, football, Interact, taekwondo, Blue House. Everything. :/
There was a point when it was about 9 days to ICC.
We didn't have our full routine, we didn't have our dance attire, we didn't submit our video presentation yet, we didn't register for ICC, basically we had a lot of things that we didn't settle yet. Oh yeah, and I got grounded around this time as well. Haa.
Practice started becoming hardcore, everyone started being serious. Endless arguments. We were nowhere close to ICC standard on Thursday night. And ICC was two days away.
The night before ICC.
We were sharing the practice spot with Bhangra Kings. So we practiced, and practiced, and practiced. From noon straight until 11pm. We were FAR from satisfying, FAR from good. We didn't have a good finale. No good finale = incomplete routine. Just imagine. The night before ICC, and all this happens. Towards the end of practice things really started becoming horrible. Some of us started crying. Some of us just sat and stared into space. So we went home eventually, with everything unsettled.
The next morning we practiced everything a few times. It wasn't what we would call perfect, but heh.
Then it was time for us to perform.
It was my first time on stage like that. Felt all sorts of emotions, screwed up some parts, enjoyed the rest. After our performance we felt like we didn't do our best. Honest.
When they were announcing the results towards the end, every other group and performer were holding hands. Except us. "Why do you guys wanna hold hands? Trust me. We're not going to win."
That's how badly we thought we did, and how great we thought everyone else did. Of course we were happy when Deviation was announced 2nd place for the modern dance category. We honestly did not expect it. At all.
During practices,
We played around a lot. We procrastinated a lot. We were not disciplined enough. We were not energetic enough. We screwed up a lot. We cried a lot. We laughed a lot. We slept a lot. We played ping pong and futsal a lot. We took pictures a lot. We talked a lot. We did homework a lot (lol actually no only Sze Teng did this). We watched Bhangra Kings practice a lot (!!!!!). We pissed each other off a lot. We argued a lot.
I made new friends! With people I really never thought I would. Grew closer to each other. Got to know each other better. Laughed together. Shared stories together. Helped each other.
Practices were really something to me. Slowly started to like dancing, even though I'm still far from good. Enjoyed it. Probably won't end up dancing again. So ICC 2011 truly did mean a lot to me. :)
Thank you Megan, thank you Lydia, thank you Trisher, thank you Yew Wing, thank you Sharon, thank you Shalinee and thank you everyone else who helped. Thank you to everyone else who supported us through it all! ♥
I'll miss all that. Definitely something new for me, great experience.
I wish you guys did not say bad things about us behind our backs. I wish you guys did not blame us for winning. We did not bribe the judges. We did not boo y'all. We shouted and cheered for you guys. We thought you guys were great. Really broke my heart when I found out. Thought we were actually friends.
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