Thrill the World Austin!

Dancing Thriller was so much fun! Thanks to Erin's post about a week ago, I found the link to the official Thrill the World website and learned the dance using their online videos. Poor Chad had to suffer listening to Thriller about 20 times over the last week while I subjected him to my dress rehearsals.

I got to the Long Center terrace early (as recommended) and put on my zombie make-up and 'grim reaper' dress.

Here's the before (with make-up) -

And the after -

The organizers were pumping Thriller through the speakers all morning for people to practice their moves. There were folks still learning the 'spoken cues' so we had to sit through several rounds of the super slow and the slow version with the cues. The official dance here in Austin was done without any cues, which means that most people were going to have to know the dance without any help. Thankfully, I had done my homework :).

Erin got there and danced a few of the rehearsals without the cues. Here are some shots of us rehearsing.

Booty Bounce -


Zombie March -

and Roar! -


Scare!

Can you see us? Erin's hair makes it easy to spot her :)

The whole process for making this official was really well organized. We all had to sign in as official dancers. We had to wear wristbands. They had to dial in to the official teleconference and record the teleconference as it was in process. The video of the event included part of the teleconference and the countdown. Around the world we all dialed into the teleconference to sync up with the official time. At the end of the dance, we all had to sign out. I hope that we set the world record for our 880+ crowd in Austin.

Thanks very much to Chad for recording our official dance. This isn't the official recording (that was done from the balcony above to our right). Please enjoy. It was so much fun!

Here is the link to the photos from the Statesman online. Very fun!

Here is the link to Statesman Video.