Weird mix of emotions

Woah!!! The much dreaded D&D is finally OVER!!! We performed yesterday night, admist many nail-biting panic moments and not forgetting, some small disagreements among my group of dancers. The latter esp, rattled me for a while, as I thought some looked like they wanted to back out at the last minute. It all started with the guys having different ideas on what to wear for the dance (interestingly, the ladies had no problems with that). We had 3 guys, and one of them is a professional dancer (yar, he was the one i said earlier who told me he might not be able to perform, due to his exams. Fortunately, he found out the exams were 3 days later...phew!!). This guy of course, wanted the male dancers to dress somewhat more flashy than what they usually wear. As he had experience onstage, I quite value his opinions, and frankly speaking, I felt his ideas were quite good! It reasonable to expect performers to wear something more dramatic, cos you are entertaining people, and the audience would wanna see you in something you dun usually wear. Only then you can make a lasting impact on the audience mah! However, my two guy dancers, being first-timers, were very conservative in their costume ideas, and did not agree with this pro dancer on his outfit pick. They kept saying they did not want to 'chu chou' in front of their colleagues....and what they wear would not really make a difference. Wah...it was quite tiring for me to try and pacify both sides....really not easy trying to persuade and convince the 2 first-timers to change their opinions. Like I said earlier, i was quite afraid they would quit becos of this! At some point of time, the 2 sides nearly stopped speaking to each other. Fortunately somehow, they managed to compromise here and there. Even more surprisingly, those 2 first-timers even agreed to put on some makeup b4 going onstage!!! I was so happy.....

Anyway, when I first took on this dance 'project', there were so many difficulties I encountered that I really wanna give up so many times (can see how many times I complained in my blog about this job). Difficulties in arranging practice sessions, people not turning up, music not right, etc etc. It was all so frustrating, and there were so many times I really really wished all this would end soon!!! However, when it was finally really over, I actually felt slightly sad that we would no longer meet up for dance sessions again! Very very bu she de......and at the end of it all, everyone forgot all our past disagreements and differences and we all felt like one big happy team! And oh yes, I also very bu she de my dance choreographer Amelia! She was so nice as to come for our perf yesterday.....where she not only gave us final tips, but also brought along all her makeup barang barang, and acted as our makeup artist yesterday! I was so touched.....and it was also sad when we said goodbye yesterday, cos I really don't know when I'll see her again. So you can imagine, the rollercoaster of emotions that was going inside me yesterday.....everything was bu she de......