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August 2, 2008 Show:

Update 7/30/2008:  Please be in you dance cloth at dress rehearsal at 1pm on Saturday, so that we can rehearsal in your stage cloth, with sunglasses, tango wrap...etc.  Please bring a bag so that you can put all your stage prop stuff in there and set in the entry lines behind the curtains.  The Dressing room can be used to store your bags, don't put valuable things in your bags, as there are no locks, just your street cloth, shoes, stage props, make up bags, extra panty hose, hair pieces.... The standard dress code for us dancers for Saturday is classic, dressy, "The Elegant Look": Men, white shirt and black pants (leave your jacket off when you dance),,Ladies, half length dresses with nude panty hose...  Dressy boots fine, dressy hats fine, clean and shine your shoes....  If you are wearing short skirt, make sure you wear dancers underpants plus panty hose.  Overall look, new, shiny, clean up, polish, dressy, classic, Elegant! The following message is for lady dance/performers and want-to-be lady dance performers, You choice, if you want, the make up for August 2 you can use is Stage Make Up, mean the Heavy Side of Make Up with Glue-On Eye Lashes.  If you need help, please let me know and I will demo for you this evening and also put make up for you on Saturday at Dress Rehearsal.  Please bring your own set of make up, especially Eye shadow and Lip sticks, I have a few extra pair of eye lashes, if you dare to use them... We will rehearse for two hours and you are free to either go home and hang around in San Jose, downtown, in restaurants... (bring street cloth so that you can change into them and go eat without worry about dripping food on your stage cloth)  I am going home to Cupertino to do my hair, make up, dress in my dance cloth and bring the rest of my evening cloth with me to the show (street cloth/shoes, a ballroom dance outfit and another country dance dressy outfit) by 6pm.   At 6:30pm, at the back stage, we will run through a couple more times our show routine with no music (very low volume music), so after you enter the front door  with your dance cloth and make up ready to go, go to the backstage right away!  We will be there waiting for you. At popular demands, I have scheduled another rehearsal this Thursday and Friday night at the Rodeo Club, Back Room, from 6pm to 8pm, short and sweet, run through our routines non-stop.

Update July 24, 2008:  Due to popular demand, I am adding another practice (this Sunday, from 10am to 4pm) and another rehearsal (next Tuesday, 7-10pm).  SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS.  I am also working on a updated YouTube video for the last segment (Finale) and will let you know when I complete this.  I am finalizing on the dancers line up and will publish it here on page: Dancers Line Up in the next few days.  It's critical that you attend the next two Rehearsals so that we can practice as a group and make sure our performance runs smoothly.  At next week's rehearsal, July 29, 2008, I will watch you dance.  Base upon your dance presence, I will have the final dancers line up, including the positions of the the dancers, 1st line, 2nd line and so forth.  Only those who have learned the dance and can dance without looking at anyone else will be on the final dancers line up, especially for segment 1 and 4, the advanced line dance segments. So, you have one week to really learn the practice the dances that you want to perform in.  Thank you for your understanding and hard work.

I have also decided to change our stage entering and exiting format.  After the perfomrance, the dancers will walk towards the back of the stage and will stay there, just clap and cheer like they are part of the audience and watch other dancers performing until their turns to perform.  The last Segment, She Bangs, all the performers will do this segments with loud and exciting presence.  I recut the music for this segment already so that we can do Tush Push twic completely with a loud clap and yell "FINE" at the end, with legs part and arms extended spread out.  I am working on a new YouTube Video of this segment and will let you know when I have complete this.

BY THE WAY:  This may not be our last performance, I am getting words that we may be invited to perform in other situations, such as company parties, community centers, college dance shows....etc..  I will let you know more, as I learn more.... Also, The Headline Comcast Local Editions Interview with Maggie Scura will air in August, '08.  I will send email to let you know when it will air.

Sunday Practice:  July 27, 10am to 4pm, my rental house, Cupertino. I will be there at 10pm for any dancers that want extra practice.  Bring water for yourself.

Please make sure you come to the next two Wed Rehearsals, as we need to practice as a group to make sure the our performance run smoothly.  After this Wednesday, 7/16/08, rehearsal, I will publish the "Dancers Line Up- 2nd Cut" for us to line up and practice for next Wed, 7/23.  Those of you that have learned the dance and can dance comforably on your own (without looking at anyone else) will make the 2nd cut.  So I will be watching you this coming Wed.  I may have an audition to help me line dancers up.  We want to make sure everyone looks good on the stage.  To help you better prepared, please go to Kickit Line Dance and YouTube for dance links, see webpage dance links.  You need to know the dance by heart in order to perform that dance on stage.  Thank you for your understanding.

 
CNN Headline News/Local Edition-NEWSMAKERS Interview:  July 11, 11:40am, in Salinas, went well, see photos and answeres to question which I gave Maggie:  "How have your dance experiences impacted your life?"  I also give Maggie the DVD from our rehearsal, but the interview will air after our dance show, so I did not mention the dance show during the interview.  Go to page:  Interview with Maggie for photos.  Also Page:  Sharing Our Stories.  I  also gave this info to Maggie

Fourth Rehearsal:  July 16, Wed. Rodeo Club Concert, so 7:30pm my rental house in Cupertino (email me if you need address).  To help you better prepare, please take the time to practice some of the dances yourself, listen to the CD I gave you and see the YouTube links.  The better prepared you are before you come, the better you can take advantages of the rehearsal, as we have about thirty people now...

6-7pm Beginners Review in this sequence:  Tush Push, Baby Like to Rock It, Uno Do Tres, Men In Black, Drifter, Horse Shoe, Cowboy Cha Cha, Midnight Waltz, Booty Shakin', Crazy Legs

7-8pm Intermediate/Advance Review:  Racing Cowboy, She Bangs, Mum Bop, Music High, Hideaway Cha, Razor Sharp, Sold, Love Letters, Hot Tamales, Swing Time Boogie and Buffalo Boogie

8-9:30pm Dance Show Music15 minutes, we will walk through it slowly the first time and run through it three times non-stop, with entering and exiting the stage...

Please bring:

Your show costume/cloth, I would like to at least see what you plan to wear,

Socks to dance in.

Bottle water for yourself (the house is empty, refrigerator cleaned and turn off)

Checks mede out to Adrian Flores Presents $21/ticket

If you have an extra Boom Box, please bring it, I can use extras. I have five separate areas that we can practice in.

I will video the practice on a DVD and mail to Headline News/Local Edition - NEWSMAKERS on July 17, 2008. 

Fifth Rehearsal:  July 23, Wed. my rental house, Cupertino. I will be there at 6pm for any dancers that want extra practice.  Starting from 7pm, I will run show music every 15 minutes in the Family Room, non-stop.  There are three other areas for small group practice, bring your boom box if you can for extras, bring water for yourself.