China, Asia, Climbing and Fixed Gear Bikes

The last day before the show and a dress rehearsal with a full „real time“ run through of the „Death Prom“ show. This is how worried our director Kris and producer Anna look like:

I did some warm up on my bike before the run through the show. I also look tense and worried – but more because of my new trick bike show.

The Prom Queen candidates are called up to the stage:

All participants in the show had to dress up and interact with others according to 1 of 4 categories, either as queens, geeks, stoners or jocks. As we had no audience in this dress rehearsal we had to interact amongst ourselves like here a queen and a geek while others were dancing.

The show included some performances, mostly dancing. Thanks again to Michael Rahn alias Coach Riggens for all these pictures.

The the zombies started to come in the room:

The zombies were attacking the prom queen and the prom king and others:

Anna has set up her office here a few days ago for all the last minute preparation. Here is a picture of her office with all the Halloween goody bags:

It is creeping closer: The Halloween night Death Prom at Block 8. It will be a night of theater and performers like dancers, jugglers, magicians and trick bike riders on October 31st 2008 in Beijing. We had another rehearsal for this excitingly different event.

A show that you don’t just watch, you experience. Come and join the Glendale High School’s Class of 1958 in a night to remember, with a live band, swing dancers, and flesh-eating zombies! Death Prom features the collaborative efforts of different international performing groups in Beijing. This Halloween, come party with us… and bring your friends!

Dress Code –  Three options:

1. Formal dress (like a prom/school dance)
2. 1950s style clothes
3. Scary Halloween costumes (zombies, witches, vampires, etc)

We are in the process of forming an international organization. It is the „China International  Performing Arts“ (CIPA) Association. We want to get the different forms of performing arts, like theater, comedy, magic, circus, acrobatics, juggling, dance, jazz and orchestra to be able to synergize and help each other. For the beginning we are planning an event together. For that some of us met tonight to prepare some space related objects like stars, moons, flowers, space ships and a robot.

And after that I met some colleagues in a bar in Sanlitun. It was quite nice to find out that all drinks for the ladies were free 🙂