Rehearsals Day 13 - A little bit of Africa

OK. So it is still a bit chilly - hardly some sub-Saharan savannah; nor is it really anywhere near the equator - more like Kennington, but we have been trying to bring a little bit of Africa to rehearsals today. We're working on the next number in 'Destination Dance', and for much of the day we have been singing "Ingonyama nengw' enamabala" - which for those of you who are not fluent in Zulu translates as:

"A Lion and a Leopard come to this open place"

So there! In case you come on board and see the show, you will now be able to impress you fellow audience members with your vast linguistic knowledge. Definitely something to amaze and astound people with over dinner!

The dancers have been hammering through the numbers in the show, finishing off the Bolero number, a bit of leaping and stomping in the Lion King number, and putting together the final bits of the Irish section. Bless them - they've been taking in a lot over the past few days!

As we will be showing the 'powers that be' some of the material we covered thus far, we had a good run through our Motown show "Hitsville USA" with Sarah giving us some help and cleaning up what we'd done. And it also gave Neil a chance to have a real go at it, as he missed out on those rehearsals at the start.

So we have a couple of days of cleaning up and perfecting (well, you know what I mean!) the dance show before showing it off and then moving on up to the next one. No rest for the wicked :-)