Whymsee - Let's Dance!

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Join us on Saturday, September 9, 2017, starting at 6 pm SLT, for WNYC: Back to School 3, a dancing adventure through all the fun and excitement that Whymsee can bring to classrooms of all sorts! You play an integral part of the show, we cannot do it without you! Come and tell the Back to School story with us. No Rules... just Seriously Fun! Please "Like" and Share!

Here's your yellow bus! Whymsee 

You gotta get up and try, and try, and try...

Everything has a beginning.
Whatever we do, we all got our start somewhere.
And when we did, usually someone was there, helping us along.
Teaching us all the moves, sharing all the tricks.
Maybe a box full of freebies to get started with.
An invite to perform in the background.
And then, one day, when you're ready.
It's time for the spotlight. It's time for the stage, front and center.



As I've said before, I'm not a dancer or performer or choreographer.
I'm a writer. I write stories.
Even though I'd published and podcasted them since 2005, I didn't read them in Second Life.
Until there was Voice, and I saw Shandon Loring and Caledonia Skytower and Derry McMahon of Seanchai Library reading stories at the Galaxy cruise ship.



I figured what the heck, and read a few stories in the... was it a Clocktower then, or had I changed it to the Clocktree?
Doesn't really matter. Because what matters is that they inspired me, encouraged me, and when I got down on myself for some mis-steps, they kept me going. One a day, until.
All the people who have walked with me on this journey, the ones who went off on their own, the ones who still circle back now and then, and the ones who's journey has ended...
Nobody ever goes it alone.

Who helped you get your start?
When you wanted to give up, who inspired you to keep going?

MJ's Burlesque Review Is Back!!!

Summer's coming to an end and the ladies of MJ's Burlesque Review are back... Did you miss us??? Did you??? Did you??? Presenting an all new show where freaky dancing porn stars go back to nature... and stuff.
This is an adult show so tuck the kiddies back in your inventory and join us for an hour or so of the usual MJ smut and giggles on Friday, September 8th at 2 pm (SLT) and Sunday, September 10th at 2 pm (SLT). Bring your own tissues and don't ask about the stains on the ceiling.

Your limo:
MJ's Burlesque Review

The Crossroads

I go to a lot of dance performances.

However, sometimes there’s multiple performances at the same time.

Group A regularly appears at 7PM on Saturday.

Group B regularly appears at 7PM on Saturday.

Which do I go to?

Well, it depends…

Which group is on the Dance Queens calendar?

Which group will perform more unique never-to-be-seen-again acts that night?

Which group do I capture better images from?

Which group has liked and faved those images more? (Yeah, I’m a whore.)

Which group has the most yellow dots on the mini-map?

Which group has the least red dots on the minimap?

Then, slug it or fuck it, I toss a coin.

Heads is A, Tails is B.

Arbitrary decisions are best left to arbitray means.

Problem solved.

And if anybody bitches, they’re welcome to send me a coin that’s both heads or tails for the next show. (Gold, Platinum, or Palladium.)

(To pay off the Viking Horde, of course.)

Some folks say that I should fire up another viewer on the second monitor so I can attend both shows.

No. I firmly believe that if you’re at more than one place, you’re nowhere.

Life is about opportunity costs.

Deal with it and move on.

(FYI, that's a unicycle seat, you naughty people.)

How do you handle multiple shows at the same time?

All dance and no play...

It's easy to get obsessed on things.

Start with one performance, move on to the next, and pretty soon all you're doing is performing and putting together the next performance.

At some point, you're going to snap.

(Somehow, BabyPea will turn this GIF into something sexy and awesome.) 

When I'm not shooting dance performances, I'm either writing or finding new things to add to my orrery homage to science fiction. Chopper came by the other day and had some great suggestions, and I added a few of them...

(See the Enterprise up there?)

When you're not feeding the Second Life Dance Performance meat grinder, what keeps you logged in?

Don't put another dime in the jukebox...

Music inspires us.
Music moves us.
And we move to music.

Then, there's that rare song that brings us all together.
It strikes a chord within us, every one of us.
Again. And again. And again.
Until we're sick to death of it.
SICK. TO. DEATH.

Retire that song's number and give it a farewell tour...
Hand it a Second Lifetime Achievement Award and shove it offstage...
And, for God's sake...

For me, it's a certain song by Walk The Moon...


Just... so... damn... HAPPY! So... damn... ugh... can't... resist...

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Brain Death

I think everybody's taken a whack at this lyrical pinata, and yet it's still swinging there from the tree, mocking and taunting all.


What song do you wish would vanish from the face of the grid?

Introducing: Don't Make Me Call The Dance Police!

Every week or so, I look back through the photos of Second Life dance performance that I’ve posted on Flickr.

Sometimes, I smile. Sometimes, I wince.

And then there’s the times I think up goofy shit.

I like to call this portion of our trip: Don’t Make Me Call The Dance Police.

If you don't tip the venue, the land barons must be appeased with human sacrifices.
So, tip generously.



I love mirror acts. It proves that the dancer is not a vampire, and won't bite me.



Oh, crap... now the whole lawn is going to come up weeds in a week!



Why did Pan Am go bankrupt? Instead of hiring pilots and flight attendants, they hired sexy dancers.



What dancers actually do with all of your tips.



As much as I love Debauche, my favorite thing to do is sneak photos of Sev and Laura waiting for their cue during Simply The Best.



MORTALLLLLL KOOOOOOMBAAAAAAT!



Nothing says memorial tribute like a latex suit and lightning. Rawr.



On the next season of Game of Thrones... Sho is coming.



I've been bad. Very bad.



So, if the B-52's sang Planet Claire, there's a Sailor Claire, right?



Di and Nara hate to wait for the elevator, and walking down 100 flights of stairs in those heels is a bitch.



... and this is when the acid kicked in.




EYEOOOOOOOWWWWWW! ICEPACK! STAT!

Thank you, and stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of Don't Make Me Call The Dance Police.

Spirit Light Dance Company Presents Showcase 2017

Once a year members of the company are encouraged to stretch their wings and present a piece of their own work. This year they have outdone themselves giving us outstanding choreography. One Show only, so plan to get there early! Sunday September 10th at 12:00 noon slt. Please keep your scripts at 50 or under and suggest you arrive early to cache.

Theater of Light 

Desire Arts Theatre & Gallery - September!

Desire Arts Dancers do a monthly "after hours" show. Starting at 7pm slt... we bring you the performance quality at our Saturday shows, with more skin... little less costume. Some acts do contain adult content.

As an "Arts" theater (and gallery) Desire Arts will be a venue perfectly suited for SL Performers wishing to express themselves through live performances, through Dance, Art Exhibits, Performance Art as well as Dramatic Presentations.

Also, Presentations of a controversial nature (including those involving sex, politics and/or religion) will be presented separately from the Dance Program.

Desire Arts Theatre & Gallery

Paramount Players - Dancing in the Trees

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Come join us for an evening of classy but sassy entertainment as we the PARAMOUNT GRAND THEATRE, the Paramount Players dance for you September 9th & 16th at 7pm slt, in our new show, Dancing In The Trees.

We're taking the Paramount to the jungle this month!  Swing into the theatre on a vine and grab a banana!  Watch out for the insects, snakes and lions.
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Paramount Grand Theater's Paramount Players

The Heart of Danceness

You know how in the movie Apocalypse Now, shit gets weirder and weirder the deeper that Williard goes upriver to seek out Colonel Kurtz?

Sometimes, I feel like that as I travel deeper and deeper into the meta-community of Second Life dance performance.

The people you come across… the performances… the venues… stranger and stranger… and pretty soon, you find that you’re a stranger to yourself.

Who am I?

What the hell am I doing here?

Why am I doing this?

The stories people tell you, the history and the dynamics and the drama.

I’ve said this before, but will say it again…

The Law of Triangles:

A likes B

B likes C

A hates the shit out of C

Sometimes, you’re A. Or B. Or C.

Accept that as law. Deal with it.

So, there’s a history there. Some folks were here or there, set out on their own or banded together with others. Groups come and go, some endure. They rise and fall over time.

Some of the classics are on YouTube, others are captured in photos in ancient Flickr albums, maybe a routine here or a promo poster there.

I can imagine an old avatars rest home, folks looking back at their digital careers, remembering when. Or a museum, their performances available in holography.

Will there be dance in Sansar? Will there be anything there, really?

What will remain, or do we only leave our footprints in the wet sand, erased in time?

The boat is coming up on the shore, and the natives are all out to watch us as we pull in.

Oh, look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown

Okay, so yeah, I shoot photos. But who cares, man.

What I want to know is who else shoots photos of Second Life Dance?

I know Elli does, and Sophie, and Hayden, and Laura and Sev, and Andy...

Here's one by Willo that I touched up for her for fun...

And Web, too. Like, she’s only my sensei, right?

And she runs the hub. Lots of photos from lots of people there.

Anyone else out there? Who am I missing?

Who’s going to be IMing me with…

WHY DON’T YOU LOVE ME ANY MORE???????

(Oh, baby, I still love you. I’m just bad about this stuff. Now gimme some sugar!)

I love it when folks catch moments I miss.

Or seeing the performance from their perspective.

Their preferences. Their angles.

Their settings.

I like to shoot in Midday while others actually listen to you guys and change to Midnight.

Seeing a performance literally through their eyes.

And the history.

Who used to be in which group.

And how they broke out and made it on their own.

Post their gallery SLURLs, Flickr sites, and other locations in the comments.

It’ll be fun. Like going through old photo albums.

With your grandma and grampa.

Back during the war. And the rationing.

That was your great aunt. She got hit by a bus when she was eleven.

You have her eyes. But you look both ways before you cross the street.

She didn’t.

See how fun this is?

Today's questions:

• Other than my firehose on Flickr, where do you turn to for dance performance images and vids?
• How do you use the photographs?
• Ever gotten an idea for a performance from a photograph?

Fly that freak flag in the comments, baby!

Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop!!!!

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop!!!!


It's time to light the lights, play the music & raise the curtains to the Crystal Edge Dancers on stage - WEDNESDAY, 6th SEPTEMBER 2017.

Let's all come together to celebrate unity through dance ♥

Crystal Edge Club

Doors open:   2.30pm SLT
Showtime:       3pm SLT
After Party:       Dance till we drop

Hugs
Crystal Edge Dance Troupe.

Let's Dance at Whymsee Noir

****Saturday 9/2/17 Let's Dance at Whymsee Noir: Newness! 6 pm SLT****


Join us on Saturday, 9/2/17, starting at 6 pm, for Let's Dance at Whymsee Noir: NEWNESS. I have choreographed 12 new songs, and we've decked ourselves out in the latest fashion...for our NEWBIE avatars when we joined SL years ago! Send me a photo of you when you were a newbie, and I will put it in a slideshow! It should be a fun celebration of our newbie selves, we can't do it without you!

For the Let's Dance show, we trade in our sets for MORE dancing and LESS wait time between songs! There will be lots of wiggling, dancing, physics, and a little dazzle thrown in for good measure! Dance along with us or have a seat in our comfy chairs, we like it when you watch! Come to the show and see what all the fuss is about!
Contact: Cordelia Cerise



Whymsee Noir Club

What a wicked game we play… to make me feel this way…

A lot of y’all out there have introduction music for your group.
Let’s call it an anthem.
It gets the audience in the mood for the performance.
Time to put on your WAR FACE!



I said WAR FACE, not whore face, dammit. And it also gives the performers a few extra minutes to deal with crashes, unrezzed costumes, and other Second Life shit.
Then, in between acts, there’s often a performer’s warm-up music.
It lets you know who’s coming next.
(If you don’t peek behind the curtain, or look at the day’s lineup.)
It lets you know that you’re about to be… (dramatic pause) THUNDERSTRUCK!
Or the song mentions their name, like, eleventy billion times.
CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE!
See?
CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE!
See what I mean?
CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE! CHEWIE!
Okay, knock it the fuck off right now!
Jeez!
Or, the song fills you with a sense of dread… oh my God, they’re up tonight? (SHOTS FIRED!)
So you can get another beer, or take a quick bathroom break.
Maybe both?
(I hide my vodka in the tank. I need help.)

I’ve been thinking about what tune I’d use as an introduction.
Not that I’ll ever perform, but what if… you know.
Kind of like playing “Fuck, Marry, Kill” with a list of Hollywood actors.
You never will, but…
No. Just no. (Call me, Scarlett!)
Anyway, I thought about it for a while and came up with a list.
Whatsername by Green Day, because I burned all the photographs.
Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon, because… Warren.
Or maybe his I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. That works, too.
Late Night Evening Prostitute by Tom Waits, because… Tom. Just Tom.
(And I’m a fucking attention whore, living in denial.)
Everybody’s My Friend by Kansas, but everybody isn’t. So, forget that.
Storms by Fleetwood Mac is way too long.
Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me by Weird Al is too.
Build The Robots by Doctor Steel?
And so on… we could play this game… this wicked game for hours.
The point is, you’ll never hear this shit or see me perform. Deal with it.
I firmly believe in the principles of Gonzo, but Plimpton went too far with the football shit.
And Hunter… man, you do not want to get me started on that dude.
Just because I'm appropriating the title of his greatest work, I'm not going to floss my teeth with a Magnum any time soon, eh. (Football Season is not over yet!)

The questions I’m asking today are:

• What is your group’s anthem, and why did y’all select it? What does it mean to you?
• What is your performer intro music, and why did you select it?
• Is there other music related to you or your group that you’d like to talk about?

Lay it on me, folks. The comments are open.