Rooster at the West Barn, enters Stage Left.
Tough audience.
Cattle Call auditions. I hate them. Though I believe this particular audition was called by the cattle.
I knew a guy once, when I was running in such circles, who actually wrote his thesis on the Entrances and Exits of Shakespeare. It was a dry piece. And has absolutely nothing to do with Dancing Roosters.
I hope you have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
117 responses to “Chicken Dances”
It looks like Sadlers Wells to me 😉
Well, it was brave of him to go through with it. You can tell he had cold feet!
Oooh, I think someone has demob fever! You are just a little bit on your way already, in your head…
I love your rooster, strutting onto the stage like a particularly muscular male lead.
PS, by popular request, the pink hat now features in my avatar image. I’m not quite sure about it yet…. What do you think?
Love the pink hat, Kate!
Good, that’s one in favour, at any rate!
The ultimate chic
love,
ViV
…five. Thank you, Viv, from you that’s high praise.
I am delighted to see you took my advice, Kate. You have such a pretty face and the pink really frames it. I was a shame to hide it from your friends.
You provided the impetus I needed to make the change! I’m not at all sure about the pretty comment, but the overall effect makes a good avatar photo due to the bright colour 🙂
It’s very pink…and Grannymar is right, it frames your pretty face beautifully! I hope you’ll be wearing it to morning tea today, I’ll feel like we’re in the Great Gatsby:)
Sorry I left it in the car, perhaps next time! Lovely to see you and your wonderful new home. Looking forward to catching up in 6 months or so and seeing progress.
Love it!
…two!
Great …. I can spot you all the way from here 🙂 Laura
…three (if spotting me is a positive!)
In the icons you pop out like a pink flower! Delightful! c
…four! I match my frangipani icon now…
Love it!
…six! That’s good enough. It’s staying!
Yes, I was surprized – a new one, missed your old one. But this one is an eye catcher indeed! Wow! And well – it’s a current one, it’s the up-to-date one. Maybe should change mine too… ? 😀
Don’t change yours Irmi -I love this one! . c
…and, for what it’s worth, I agree. ~ Mame 🙂
So do I!
Irmi, stay as sweet as you are! Your avatar is beautiful.
Oh, thanks to you all – makes me glad, you like it. Makes me feel so ………. – ehm, so proud to have a meaning for you…. hm.
Me, a bit embarrassed, confused, shyly now… 😉
I love this shot of you. too, Irmi! Keep it!!! Much love, Gayle
I love the hat and thank you for mackerel sky!!
You’re most welcome 🙂
You guys are awesome – my hat looks so pedestrian next to yours Kate! Fab! I would say lets wear our hats to lunch but I would chicken out. !!
Ah, go on! I can’t believe YOU would chicken out. I’ll bring mine just in case…
I love it too. I must say, you do appear totally different now from the image I had of you from the old photo. The hat does give you some lovely reflected colour and a great deal of pizazz. ~ Mame
Oh dear, now I have to worry about how I came across before… I’m so pleased you like it.
No Kate, there’s absolutely no need for worrying – my first thought, when I saw this Image of you was: She seems more matured now. In a very, very positive way! Kind of a lady you are now! It’s great. – But I loved that photo before so very much, because there was (for me) a touch of that little girl visible that is inside you too. And that I love very much, I must admit… 🙂 🙂
Me, too, Kate. I loved the old photo with a strand of hair fetchingly hanging. Pink is too bright. Much love, Gayle the rebel
I do love bright colours, and live in a climate where I can indulge my taste to the full. I’d hesitate elsewhere… I’ll leave the pink hat up for a bit to see how I feel about it later!
There’s a lot of little girl still inside me, and I’m afraid it shows quite a lot! But I think you’re right; I’m calmer and less shy now than I was before. 🙂
Yes, you are right, Kate, your expression then was indeed a little bit shy too at/on the older picture. But it made you sympatico… 🙂
And: Keep your inner mind – that little girl is a lovely one and very likeable….
Great Avatar photo! Looks very nice!
Oh, thank you! I hadn’t realised quite how much standout that bright pink would achieve, but perhaps that’s not such a bad thing…
I vote yes… I love the pink hat on you 🙂
Have you got a hat? Celi is chickening out of wearing one at lunch, but if you and I do, she’ll have to, surely?
I have a hat, several, but not a lunching in Melbourne CBD sort of hat. Pass 😊
Ah well, I shall have to stuff mine into my bag when the time comes. I refuse to sit there be-hatted in solitary splendour…
Ha ha now that’s what I call giving someone the cold shoulder 😂 All those bums!
Chooks can be so mean!! c
He obviously does not suffer from stage fright!
He is a strutter! c
Next …… Laura
Ah yes, that was you out in the auditorium of hay bales! c
Oh how I swoon over your photos and words c! Thank you!!
Life is great isn’t it?
Rooster in movement – great and beautiful shots! But your text of today – – – is a bit dark to me. Did not understand at all. Never mind. Have a nice Sunday!
When you begin to audition for extras in a play or a film or commercial you have what is called a Cattle Call. All the people turn up, get a number and stand around and the casting people look them over and sign up the ones they want. The rest are sent home. We call it a Cattle Call because you are herded about like cattle. Does that makes sense?
Thank you, Celi, for helping me out. – For Audition we use “casting” here… (G-english). But I could not bring it together with the farmy and as you said you hate it… And yes, suddenly Shakespeare here: Why? OK our rooster on “stage” was the base of mentioning it. So far so good. But then: Entrances and exits? I was indeed a little bit confused. So I missed the joke. Never mind. Maybe it has to do with your past life that I do not know very well…? Did you work as an actress?
For that Cattle Call – strange, crazy expression though (dictionary has no idea about it). We have something similar: In doing political decisions i.e. your parliamentary voting process is called “Division”. Here it’s called “Hammelsprung” (Hammel = male sheep, Sprung = jump), just found it literally on Wiki: Wether’s leap. What a crazy name for that process! The polititians have to divide into three groups by leaving the plenary hall and then re-enter through one of three doors designated for “yes”, “no”, or “abstention”. Don’t know what it’s got to do with wethers and leaps. Hehe… – Same as with Cattle Call, isn’t it?
Irmi – use this as a delightful ‘learning lesson’ about differences in language usage and culture around the world 🙂 ! Firstly, does the farmy ‘cast” not make you think of a ‘drama plot’ at times 🙂 ? So since Miss C was a drama teacher for so long and then worked for a film director in England . . . methinks I can see a logical ‘side movement’ at which those of us who grew up in a more-or-less Anglo-Saxon environment would love and understand!! My High School years had about six hours of Shakespeare per week and another couple re other dramatists and ‘stage left’ or ‘right’ and ‘cattle call’ were part of the ‘insider’ knowledge . . . it kind’of made us ‘belong’ 🙂 !! And most of us thus schooled have loved the theatre all our lives as a result . . . read more, have fun . . .
Yes, “stage left” was an Expression too I had to struggle with: On the pic it was the “right side”. OK, it depends where you stand at, which side you are looking from… 🙂 Thank you, Eha, for enlighten me a bit as an Insider you are…. 😉
Irmi these may help
these is for current english slange and hip-hop words
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
These other two are both english dictionaries
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
hope they help i user them often
Thank you very much skippeck! 🙂
Winter Stock in the Stage Barn. Mickey & Judy would approve the old Buck & Wing. (Early morning LOL with my tea, Celi. Bravo!)
Irmi, Mickey and Judy refers to Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. They made a few movies in the 1940’s. Much love, Gayle
I thought that rooster was a hen! I suppose the minimalist dress calls for extrovert behaviour, to gain attention.
No he is a nasty rooster, but a juvenile.. c
Gosh I just love stopping by your blog. As I can always guarantee some deliciously beautiful photographs. And again today I wasn’t disappointed 😃.
I loved those sequence too. He is a beautiful rooster but he has a bit of a temper – he quite terrifies Boo! .. c
He certainly is very beautiful, I agree. 😃
Which could probably well describe some well known actors…
5:30 AM here and laughing my head off! Brilliant way to greet the morning 🙂
Yes! Good morning Deb. c
My day just got way lovelier and laugh-ier. This is a hoot. Or a cackle. Or something. So incredibly funny. I see a new book in our future with a chicken in the lead. What is this starlets name? I vote for Gregory Peck. Ha!
Definitely a cackle.. Maybe about Peghorn who hides all day from the other big roosters (behind rocks – or at the bottom of a tree, even in a SHADOW.. he could be a hero in the making.. c
Birds are such grand performers, but I think among their own kind it’s a tough world out there! I see it in nature all of the time. Those females can be hard to reach… all that performing and dance just to be snubbed! Well, I for one enjoyed the chicken dance!! Good morning…we have an opera here – birds are singing loudly in the woodlands. Spring is just around the corner!
Yes, i would not like to come back as a chook – that is for sure.
oh my, chicken dance. It’s a dopey thing done at weddings around here, every time I hear it start I head for the loo to hide.
I would too! mercy!.. c
Happy Valentines to all my Farmy Buudies! Luv to all of ya! Hugs n Kisses! Hope none of your Family felt the earthquake in New Zealand. Ready to go? Smooth flyin! Cheers!
It is valentines day?