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Fantasydays 2009 – Day 3
8 November 2009 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday, Nov 8, 2009 * Workshops – Performance – Closing show
After barely getting more than four hours of sleep on the night from Saturday to Sunday, this time we were up from 5 am, since our first workshop was to start at half past nine. Tired and partly very sleepy, we headed to the Burg-Wächter Castello one last time.
When we arrived there shortly before half past eight, however, nothing was going on yet, so we set about preparing everything for the later visitors and training a little more.
Gradually the building filled up, though, and we had big crowds at the booth and especially in our two workshops. So once again we spent some time talking to visitors, telling them about ourselves and of course selling lots of raffle tickets, while in an empty room lightsaber newbies were taught how to handle the weapon and its technique by Tim and Jana.
Once the first rush had died down a bit, some of us found the time to wander around together. Jana got a henna tattoo of our SP logo at one of the many booths, which was admired by many.
Since our next performance was to take place at 15:00, we packed up our costumes and sabers at around half past two and went back to the changing room so we could transform into Jedi and Sith again.
After a short wait backstage, it was time again. We all had a lot of fun, because unlike the day before, there were no blunders in this performance, and we got lots of applause.
While some team members had already changed again to answer questions from interested spectators and even fans at the booth, Markus, Tim and Saskia went over to the small stage still in their Jedi and Sith outfits, since they were to represent the team at the later closing show.
But since after a few minutes there still wasn't much going on and the show wouldn't start anytime soon, Tim and Markus decided on a spontaneous performance, which they improvised freely on the small stage. After a short time, many enthusiastic spectators had gathered who didn't want to miss this fight, and so, after a great show by Markus and Tim, the closing show could finally begin.
After a few other workshops and acts, we were soon called on stage too, and many voices demanded more and more encores from us as we finally stood spinning on the stage. So we kept going and performed our choreographies again, partly with and partly without costumes and without a proper program, and improvised more and more spins and throws to upbeat party music.
After the closing show was over and the large number of visitors had slowly dispersed, we set about tearing down the booth, tired and worn out.
Since we were all very exhausted, everything took its time, of course, and we were glad when we could finally leave the Burg-Wächter Castello at around eleven in the evening after a lovely but exhausting weekend.
Still, we're happy about the great success of our performances and workshops, the interest and the great audience there in Düsseldorf, and above all we want to thank Etienne, Nadine, Rene, Jarek and Thorsten once again, who supported us all weekend as helpers at the booth and also behind the camera, and without whom our program could not have run so smoothly.
In that spirit, special thanks also go to Marc and Beate for the invitation and all the organization at the Fantasydays.
We hope the visitors enjoyed it too and that we were able to get a few more people excited about lightsabers.
