Last week I flew out to beautiful Fiji to perform once again at the Coca-Cola & Jim Beam Fiji Island Party! I was so excited when I was asked to perform again this year as I had such an amazing time on my last trip and this time was no different. I had the best time ever with an amazing cast and crew and a big group of some of my closest friends. Here’s the breakdown of what we got up to each day…
Day 1:
I arrived in Fiji and we headed straight to our hotel resort on Denarau Island, checked in and had a quick cast and crew dinner. We then headed down to the beach to do a final technical rehearsal on our big stage built on the waters edge. Very cool.
We have the entire day to ourselves, so after a morning walk down to Port Denarau Marina I spent the day swimming and drinking cocktails by the pool. The weather is absolutely amazing, so beautiful and sunny. Doing it really tough!!
Tonight is our first show for the opening night of the Coca-Cola & Jim Beam parties choreographed and styled by the incredible Ame Delves. Our first performance on the waterfront stage is a mix of lingerie, leather and corsets and the second performance was all about black, gold and silver with lots of sequins and sparkles. I wore a black sequin skirt, corseted top, black diamante high heels and an amazing super sparkly diamante necklace.
Today was again spent by the pool swimming and dancing to the DJ’s spinning tunes by the pool. Lots of fun.
In the evening we headed down to Sandy Point beach for a quick tech rehearsal at sunset before the guests arrived, on our stage built in the sand right in the middle of the beach.
Tonight’s show has a “Paradise” theme so the dancers and I are styled in various Mijanou swimwear pieces. I wore a black one shoulder one piece swimsuit with cut-out details and wore a wreath of real flowers made by the local Fijian women on my head! How cool is that?! The flowers smelled divine. The show began with the dancers and myself being carried out on to the beach and being placed on the stage on the shoulders of some big Fijian men! That was definitely a first for me!!
After the show we hit up the Coca-Cola Jim Beam nightclub bar where we danced the night away to some super cool music played by the live band and DJ’s.
Today was yet another day of absolutely stunning weather! Sooo hot and sunny!! I spent the day dancing on the beach to some awesome tunes played by the DJ’s, and drinking fresh coconuts in the pool. This is absolute bliss and I don’t want it to end!!!
Later that evening the dancers headed out to tonight’s venue for the big final night of the Coca-Cola and Jim Beam island parties where they performed various sets dancing in beautiful costumes adorned with diamante jewellery and Victoria’s Secret inspired huge feathered or silver mirror ball angel wings.
I arrived soon after and performed my contortion show to a live rock band! It was so much fun. I can’t even explain how much I love performing accompanied with a live band!! I wore my flesh coloured Swarovski encrusted signature catsuit with metallic gold PeepToe high heels and chandelier earrings.
After my performance Samantha Jade took to the stage who was then followed by Diesel! We stayed and partied with the performers, band and DJ’s. It was such a fun night with a great group of people.
We were up super early this morning, surviving on next to no sleep…and actually no sleep for some of us after a crazy night last night to catch our early morning flight back to Sydney. Fiji certainly knows how to turn on a great sunrise. So beautiful. I had such an AMAZING time in Fiji and am so sad to leave, I can’t wait to head back again soon. I think I said this last time but I really do mean it. Best job ever.
