The 2013 competitive season is now underway! We have performed at two NESBA shows and we just completed the WGI Trumbull, CT Regional and won our class with an 83.65. We are very pleased with the start of the season and how the shows have been going. The group has really stepped up in the past couple weeks and worked extremely hard to make this happen.
The show is called "Perpetual Cycles." It was inspired by the Mayan concept of the Life Cycle: With Life, comes Death,! and Death is necessary for New Life to occur. The show is therefore organized into three sections: 1. Life, 2. Death, 3. New Life. An important part of this concept is that the Life Cycle is never ending. Once death occurs, new life begins and the cycle starts again. A simple example can be found by looking at the changing of the seasons. In keeping with that idea, Spirit's show ends in the same manner it began and could be performed without ever stopping!
The music for the show is heavily based on Joseph Curiale's "Adelina De Maya." This is the main source material for the program and occurs in the opening as well as the closing production. Also included in the program is a Brazilian "Batucada," Alberto Ginastera's "Lamentations of Jeremiah" and "Third Wind" by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.
Now that the WGI regional is over, we return to our local NESBA circuit for a string of shows over the next three weekends before we compete in the NESBA circuit championships on April 7 and finally at the WGI World Championships on April 18-20. During these next three weeks, we will be implementing a series of changes to continue to strengthen the design of the show as well as simply cleaning it and making it as perfect as we can.
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