The Funnest Event of the Season

Nancy Sabin-Hinds

THE DANCE-ALONG NUTCRACKER

Some St. Aidan's members will be attending the Sunday, December 10th
3:00 performance of the Dance-Along Nutcracker, performed by the San
Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band at the Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts (YBCA). This is a REALLY fun holiday event where every other piece
is a Nutcracker song to which the whole audience is invited dance along.
Some folks sit it out and watch, while others, all ages, dance, prance
and twirl their hearts out, wearing any version of a tutu or tiara that
they can find! Anyone interested in going, please go to the website at
http://www.sflgfb.org/dancealong.html and purchase tickets. Let Nancy
Sabin Hinds nancy_hinds@sbcglobal.net know that you are attending, and we will either arrange to meet there, or possibly carpool (maybe grab lunch together before going?)

While you are at the sflgfb website, look at the videos of past
performances. The 2004 one shows Michaela Hinds at age 3 in a black
tutu, being dragged around Nancy's feet, right after the baton twirler,
at ~1:35 into the clip. And the article under the section titled "The
Show," refers to "the woman in Nutcracker drag who led the full audience
in the march of the soldiers..." That was Nancy Sabin in 1997 (tights
stuffed with a sock in the crotch, nutcracker jacket that has since been
worn by David Franquist a few times as circus ringleader, fake mustache
and nutcracker hat, and a spatula in place of the usual sword.)

This is possibly the most fun holiday event, if not the silliest.

Love, Nancy