Add Colors to Life

"Let's give Golden Ladies a big round of applause for their colorful and joyful clogging dance at D67 Installation Party 2008", the Masters of Ceremonies complimented our opening performance immediately after we walked down from the stage.

"I can't believe they are middle-aged ladies. They are like teenagers in the fluffy square dance costumes, so cute and lovely," whispered one female junior toastmaster. "I prefer the three golden ladies in cowboys costumes, tall and confident," commented another senior toastmaster. "It would be awesome if all golden ladies could wear shorter skirts," one distinguished gentleman toastmaster concluded the short discussion.

Thanks to Irene Chen, Golden Ladies were given the blissful opportunity to perform Bugle Call at an important Toastmasters gathering. All of us put on our most magnificent garb to open the admiring eyes of toastmasters. We were privileged to translate D67 Installation Party 2008 into a memorable event to Add Colors To Life, the theme of District 67 Governor 2008-2009 Marian Hsiao, DTM.

Bugle Call was the first clogging dance seven golden ladies performed on stage together in Toastmasters. Bugle Call is the best clogging dance to show the team spirit of beginner cloggers. It is simple yet powerful to demonstrate the percussive characters of clogging dance when the group cloggers listen to the caller and clog at the same pace.

The debut show of seven golden ladies this evening was marvelous. Seven cloggers remembered the steps by heart from the beginning till the end, except they were caught by overspeeding. Just imagine seven drummers on stage, what if one accelerated, it would be natural that the rest six would follow. When the speed picked up, the spirit went high. The faster the drummers maneuvered the drum sticks in hands, the less likely they could listen to the music. Seven golden ladies ended up sitting on the driver seats to take the full house of toastmasters to a fantasy world at seven different speeds. The audience looked at seven confused and lost golden ladies drivers and experienced the most exciting rollercoaster thrills, I bet they must have felt relieved when we posed for the ending.

Be it clogging, toastmastering, art perfroming, preparation is the key to success. Thanks to toastmasters family, we had the chance to expose our clogging dance under the limelight to excel our clogging skills on stage. After having felt electrified and zestful, we are ready to put on more clogging dance shows in the future to add colors to ours as well as lives of others around us.