Google Oktoberfest Performances

The culinary team strikes again with another great party at Google – this time celebrating the German Oktoberfest.  The culinary team had great food, great beer, some cute beer hostesses to serve the beer, an impressive 20 piece German brass band… and US!

I enjoyed choreographing three dances for our performances, and wrangled up three different teams of dancers to perform.

I was super proud of our newbie polka group – most of these dancers had never danced polka before, and they did such a great job!  They learned this routine in just 3 weeks.  Thanks to Piyush for extra costume prep, and to Robin for sticking around to Emcee!

At the afternoon lull we performed a Lady’s Landler Waltz.  This one incorporated redowa, mazurka, and waltz steps (as well as some folk dance figures) and a whole lot of cuteness.  Shouts out to Katie for being an incredibly hair braider, and thanks to Deb for rushing back to town to learn this and the help with the choreography wraps.  Thank you to Merry for pulling it all together!!

And last but certainly not least, we performed a Zweifacher.  This is a crazy difficult kind of dance that mixes waltzes and pivots to match the uneven timing in the music.  It also has lots and lots of spinning that makes all the dancers dizzy as well!  I was very impressed with how well Christina, Paul, Tina, Daniel, and Scott handled this challenging choreography – they even got compliments from the traditional German band who were impressed that they tackled a Zweifacher.  Whoot!

Thanks again to culinary for the commission to perform and assistance with costumes, and thank you to all who turned out to watch the show!