EVC all over the place

We are already in our second week of doing ElectroVocal Circus, I guess once again time flies when you are having fun. I really have no idea how we made it to the opening, maybe we were just high on jet lag or something but suddenly it was the D-day and we could only hope that everything was going to work as planned.
When we, we as in the singers, came to the theatre a day before the opening the technical crew had already been working there for 24 hours. It was an incredible feeling to realize that all of us were aiming for the same goal, to make this show as good as possible. I think we have the best technical crew in the world!

Is there anybody out there?

Could someone please tell us where to go and on what mark. 

Outi who designed and made our clothes was not happy with my pants during the run through. She is a perfectionist which is a very good thing except on the opening night. The show started at 7 p.m and when the clothes weren´t yet at the theatre at 6.20 I called Outi to ask if everything was okay and was she maybe on her way soon? Yes, I am in the taxi she said calmly. Just around the corner. There any minute now. Which was a slight lie because at that point she was on the other side of the town waiting for the taxi that never showed up and then running out on the street with all our feathers desperately looking for anything that could take her to the theatre. She made it and we were all dressed and ready to rock at 7 p.m. With a bit higher pulse than usually.

Women at work.

After each performance we talk about how the show went and what we can do to make it better. Things like are we standing in the right places for the light, how did everybody´s speaks between the songs go, are we singing too loud or too quiet (too quiet is not something that would happen too often in this group...) and so on. But we have an one-hour rule. You are not allowed to give any negative feedback during the first hour after the show. Only positive things can be said out loud. It is not like we are very good on hiding our face expressions though...

Face expression. Pain. 

Jonte in action.

I am clearly looking for something.

Is it up there?

Or down there?

Love lifts us up where we belong.

As you can see on Kasper love really lifts us up.

And the audience? What can I say, I guess you have to be there to feel it. Helsinki is Helsinki. It is good to be home!