Notes for Sun Dec 7!

Hi everyone!

It's hard to believe it, but it's our last rehearsal of 2014 this Sunday! Thank you all of you for your excellent wreath-selling skills, and for making the wreaths look beautiful on Saturday! Mega enormous gigantic THANK YOU to Tenille for coordinating the wreath fundraiser and dealing with all the last minute changes - we are so grateful for all your hard work and love for Xara!!!

We are going to spend the rehearsal getting our sets ready for our December 13th performance.

Please review Erin's excellent blog post that goes over the choreography for Pseudo-Yoik Lite, Here on these branches (partial), Pakkanen, and Kiurun Tie. This is especially crucial for those who missed rehearsal on Sunday. Further choreography notes for Here on these branches will be coming from me later this week.

Just so you are aware, the movement plans for the remaining pieces are as follows:
Formation only, no choreography: Winter, Northern Lights, Tabula Rasa
Light, simple choreography: Snow, Songbird

Dec 13
Please continue to spread the word about our Dec 13 show! We need to sell all 80 seats for the CD pre-launch part of the evening. It will help us out so much if you can share the Facebook event and tweet about it/retweet anything you see from us on Twitter about the event! We need to spread the word as much as possible and you are Xara's greatest ambassadors!!! The link to purchase tickets is here.

Clothing
For the December 13th performance, you will be wearing tunics, boots, leggings. Hair can be down or up but must be off your face including bangs.

Black Xara Dresses Needed!
For XYE's performance, The Secret Lantern, we need the singers to wear long black skirts/dresses. Could all singers with a black Xara dress bring it to rehearsal on Sunday? Please make sure that the dress is labelled with your name - we recommend safety pinning a little tag to the inside of the dress. Tape will likely just fall off. We will be able to return them to you following the performance.

Returning Singers Poll
I posted a link to a very brief form that will let us know if you are intending to continue singing with us in January (we hope so!) Please fill this form out no later than this Saturday! To fill out the form, click here.

Holiday Party!
Sunday December 14 is our holiday party!!!! Wheee!! We typically start around regular rehearsal time at 1 or 1:30. It's a snack potluck so please bring something yummy to eat or drink! And we also do a super fun Secret Santa - bring a wrapped present, no more than $10, and we will take it from there!

We are in need of someone to host this year's holiday party - Christina lives 30 minutes outside the city and my one-bedroom apartment is too tiny! If anyone has enough space and is willing to host, please let us know!