Riverdancing

Didn't I say good karma will be repaid?

Yay, I won a pair of A-reserve tickets to Riverdance. This year is the only year I seem to have won lucky draws! Remember the last time I won Photoshop CS 5 Extended at the Adobe launch... this is the 2nd time I win something worth quite a bit of money. Maybe there are a few smaller things in between... but yes, I have been quite fortunate ;)

Riverdance derived from Ireland with the first performance dating back to 1994. During those days, the tickets were sold out for weeks! A musical tapping into ancient Celtic mythology and Irish history, tells the story of the evolution of the traditional Irish stepdancing. Riverdance started out as a 7-minutes interval act for Eurovision Song Contest held in Dublin.

So it was on Tuesday night. I had quite a high expectation of it but it didn't turn out very well. In fact, the last dance Dunas which my ex-colleague took a bunch of us to, was so much better. Especially the Flamenco performance, it's nothing compared to Dunas which has totally took my breath away by surprise since I'm not really a fan of it. There was a lot of singing, stunning violin performance, a lot of good synchronised tap dancing but the solo performance was not impressive at all... The lead female was mediocre, but the male at least charmed us (the audience) with his X-factor ;) In fact, I would not pay the most expensive priced tickets to watch this performance. Like I told friends whom wanted to catch the performance, get a cheaper ticket sitting up on the balcony, it would do a good justice to the price ;)

The theatre at Marina Bay Sands was disappointing, the stage was small and the screen was only half the size, how spectacular it will be if it was a full size screen on the background! I still prefer Esplanade's!

Check out the Riverdance blog for more information, they're here till 12 December.

p.s: I just read that the female lead has only trained for the role for 2 years, probably explains a lot! Maybe it will get better in future! Let's hope so!