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[Apr. 29th, 2009|04:22 pm] |
I can't believe Rochester is over. It's been coming for months and the center of attention for this most recent time leading up, and now suddenly I find I've been home for three days already after it's over.
Fortunately, it was even better than I expected (and I expected a lot). The event itself was relatively small, which isn't a surprise considering it's the first year. Ultimately, though, it made me pretty glad we were so insanely busy.
The weekend started for me on Thursday night after work. Genevieve and I had spent all of our free time on Wednesday and Thursday choreographing and firming up our numbers for Rochester. And Thursday is the day they decided to turn our water off. Even coming into work super late, I wasn't able to shower after rehearsal (which, while I was reassured I was not offensive, drove me crazy), so as soon as I got home Genevieve had the shower on and ready for me. Sarah, Regina, Dante, and Erin stayed over for caravaning on Friday. We had Chinese, hung out until admittedly too late, and then went to sleep for far too few hours. This would be an ongoing theme.
Friday was crazy busy getting everything ready, loaded, getting the rest of our group together. By the time we were all together, fed, and ready to leave NJ, it was almost 7:00 PM (which is closer to the time we were hoping to have gotten there). We ended up arriving around one-ish. Getting all of our bags to our room was quite the ordeal (we had a _lot_ of stuff), and after saying hi to Willow, getting everything together and organized and ready for the morning, we got to sleep around 4:30.
8:30 had us up and dressed for breakfast (mmm... made-to-order omlets...) and then on to rehearsals and preparations for our shows.
Saturday had a pretty strict schedule. We were doing shorter sets at 1:00, 3:00, and 5:00 with our hour show (which was the dinner entertainment for the guests) at 8:30. So starting at 12:00 it was basically call, get dressed, perform, clean up, shower, call, get ready, perform, clean up, shower. We did have a little extra time between the 5:00 and 8:30 sets, though.
During our shorter sets I did "Lemon Meringue' by Poe (which was a reprisal from the chair show at Wicked Faire), "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn" by Evelyn Evelyn (which was a vaudevillian number that Genevieve and I put together - so much fun!), and "#1 Crush" by Garbage (a reprisal of a D/s number Genevieve and I have done at kink events before, including last years Rochester even). While the audience was smaller during these shows, they were energetic (and often generous).
While getting ready for the hour show, we also had to try to get our AC fixed. The rooms, while nice, had a lot of flaws, mostly with the electronics breaking and it being miserably warm in our room. The maintenance guy was there twice, had to replace fuses and an entire outlet and I still think it wasn't working right (although it was a little better). By the time we were getting ready for the hour set, I was really tired and the lack of sleep and all the work so far was catching up. But once we were in costume and going through our final numbers, I was awake and excited.
For the hour show, it was much more full (most of the event patrons in attendance), and besides a lighting issue and slightly split attention with food being around as well as entertainment, it went awesomely. I performed two numbers for the set. "Evil Night Together" by Jill Tracy (this was debuted here with Genevieve; another D/s number with Genevieve as the dominant; included tangoing and rose flogging!) and "Fuck You" by Lily Allen (performed the previous weekend at Pianos as a solo - along with "Lemon Meringue" - but with Willow, Genevieve, and Sandy at Rochester as my back-up pips). I also got to watch almost all of our numbers, which I love to do.
We got a huge and great response for these sets and Otter was particularly in love with Genevieve and me (as he gushed for minutes to us afterward). We got into sexy but comfy clothes for dinner and scarfed down loads of food (I hadn't eaten since breakfast so I was starving). Prime rib, yummy veggies, salad, and baked potato were all adequate, but the cheesecake was incredible. We all toasted (which cheesecake) to Bea Arthur who passed away Saturday and enjoyed the drummers while eating and finally relaxing after a tiring but rewarding day.
After dinner we converged for a drink and some games (me after a shower) and to hang and come down a bit. We didn't last too long; Genevieve, Michael, and I were in bed by probably 2:00, but again, up at 9:00 for breakfast. This time we had a delicious breakfast buffet (mmm...brunch...unending bacon...). I was pretty hungry again still from not really having eaten enough the day before. Afterward we got all of our stuff together and brought it down to our changing room so we could check out of our rooms.
Willow and I came up with choreography and a plan for "Science Fiction, Double Feature" which was both of our last number of the weekend and then I took a look around the event for the first time. I was able to see all the art and vendors. I almost got away with spending no money, too, until I saw the clothes. $60 later I have three new great burlesque costumes (of the lingerie variety), which really, is a great price for what I got.
Willow's erotic storytelling was on at 2:00 so we watched her and then got ready for the 3:00 set (the only set of the weekend I wasn't in, so I just got to watch). After that, the wait for the 5:00 set seemed a lot longer than on the previous day, even with the lunch provided by the event in the middle. Willow and I opened it with an intensely nostalgic performance of "Science Fiction, Double Feature" and we ended the weekend with some truly top-notch numbers.
Willow and I headed to Jim 8Ball afterward to get a sketch done and chat with him a bit. I was glad to get to hang with him a little. Afterward we gathered all of our stuff and by around 7:00 we were ready to hit the road back to New Jersey. Throughout the weekend we got many, many praises by attendees, volunteers, organizers, even security guards. I have never felt so full of myself. But it was great. Probably our best performance yet (and Wicked Faire was hard to top).
We got back home by around 2:00 (only major stop being dinner at 10:00 at Applebee's, although we tried a rapist-infested diner called Apple Annie's first...), showered, unpacked a little, and bed by 3:00. I slept so hard that night.
And now I'm kind of jonesing for more. We don't have any shows lined up for the near future and nothing really set in stone at all. Some possibilities that I'm sure will turn into plans, but otherwise, nothing specific to look forward to. But after each show I'm more and more excited to get to the next.
Hopefully videos and pictures will be up soon. |
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