Dancing in the Rain

I've been wanting to film a dance routine in the rain for a few days now.

It was just that it was the middle of the summer holidays and the sun was shining most of the time, so instead of choreographing dances, I preferred to practise acrobatics and stretch in the sunshine.

So one day, while I was reading a book in my room, the first raindrops hit the window. Ida came running in and called out to me to come downstairs and dance, because the rain I’d been dreaming of had arrived.

At first, I wasn’t sure. After all, I didn’t have a routine! Or an outfit.

But then I thought it would be silly not to make the most of the rain. “Rain”… more like a downpour!

I quickly picked the music I’d planned to use and set up the cameras in the garden.

My sister got the role of DJ. She turned my music on and off.

I hit record, struck my opening pose, danced, had a bath, edited the film and drank some tea.

It all happened quickly and there wasn’t any particularly wild idea (as there sometimes is with me), but it turned out brilliantly.