No Pain, No Gain

This week has been long, and I mean long. I've spent a total of 40 hours so far at school, in the past three days... not really that normal. The reason? Showchoir.

Our choreographer, whose name I shall leave as Bob, came to review our songs and clean almost every little thing; I mean EVERYTHING! We basically had to re-learn our whole closure since we had some "150" moves that were needing fixed, according to the all-knowing Bob, and we had to "get into" our novelty song. One thing that he is very particular about are moves being HIS way. It is kind of funny when I think back on how he teaches. He wants a lot of the things he says to be exactly how he pictures them in his head. I definitely got this vibe from him when we spent about 7 to 8 hours cleaning our novelty.

A novelty number is something that makes people laugh. It is pure entertainment and joy, a number that brings the whole show to life. With that said, it is the biggest acting number, and if you can't act out every little detail down to the last point, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Bob. For every sentence practically written in the song, there is some sort of outrageous move that is sometimes ridiculous and sort of embarrassing that he wants us to do perfectly. He then, if not done perfectly, goes into a long and sometimes pointless story or description of things that dont relate to anything we are doing to help us do what we are doing or he singles out innocent people. uh, what? Well it gets kind of annoying after awhile.

There are many things that he has done that really put people over the edge. Even so, I sort of empathize with him. Yeah, I just went into a long ordeal about all the things that he does that make me want to die, but I know he means well. When I think about it, our group learns so much from how he teaches. At the time he teaches, it may be long and painful, but the overall factor is a good one when it comes to our competition results and rankings. Our group does good because of his gift of giving us good choreography and, of course, us making it our amazing and coolest show ever! Everyone has there different inputs, mine is just that he is one single-minded, controlling, and talented dude.

I am hoping we are getting as good as we should be, since we were put through those three long days of hell.