Dance-a-thon 6000 and other unrelated news.

At the age of twenty-two, I performed in my first ever "dance recital" as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival over the weekend. "Dance-a-thon 6000" was part dance performance, part dance-off, part school reunion-esque disco, complete with nostalgia for rock eisteddfods past. As a member of Anna's Go-Go Academy I performed "The Madison", a 60s line dance which those of you who have seen the original "Hairspray" would recognise. Speaking of hairspray, I used two bottles of "Black Label Hair Lacquer: Incredible Hold!" to construct an impressive beehive for the evening. Here is an attempt at pensive artistic pre-performace photography. As you can see, my hair was too big to fit in the picture.




Miss Anna, the head of the Academy and mastermind behind popular comedy festival show "So You Drink You Can Dance" presented all the go-go girls (and boys) with certificates of achievement at the end of the show. Given the disproportionate amount of time I have spent studying "The Madison" compared to poltitical theory, this certificate may be the most formal qualification I ever receive! It will at least qualify me to teach interested parties a few dance moves for the Roff Christmas Concert.

In other news, it was wonderful to have Adam and Nicholas visit Melbourne last week. A sibling adventure to Amanda's country retreat in Ngambie was held, which much like a football trip involved team bonding, the consumption of vast quantities of alcohol, excessive amounts of food and...lots of lying around in the sun marvelling at the behaviour of ants? Hopefully Adam will post pictures.

Wrapping things up, I urge you all to check out www.dankelly.com(.au?) to hear "The SUV Song" featuring the delightful backing vocals/mobile phone solo stylings of The Ukeladies

xo Annika