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12:30 CEST: Rehearsal 4: 🇨🇿 Czechia - ADONXS – Kiss Kiss Goodbye
And finally before we take a break for lunch, it’s time for Czechia’s ADONXS to perform his dramatic ballad Kiss Kiss Goodbye. ADONXS not only has a successful career in music, he’s also worked as a professional dancer and model. There was no national final in Czechia this year, so our only clue to today’s staging is the time travel storytelling from the official video.
Actually that’s not true, because for the second year running Czechia have given us staging notes! Love that for us. Here’s what they have to say:
“The main focus of this performance is Adonxs’ stage presence, vocals and charm. It’s a clean, elegant concept that fully embraces the possibilities offered by the Eurovision stage, using the latest lighting technology to create effects that create waves and evoke the movie Inception.
The dance break and choreography have evolved for the Eurovision TV audience, creating an emotional, engaging and visually mesmerizing experience for both the viewers at home and the audience in the arena.”
So, a few more details, starting with Adonxs’ outfit – silver wide-legged trousers, with a white top that’s like a vest, but with sleeves and white gloves. Yes, we know a vest with sleeves makes no sense, but go with us on this.
The staging is dramatically white, with strobing black shapes on the LED wall that make it feel like some kind of dystopian heaven. During the second verse, four dancers in matching outfits join Adonx for a routine on a pure white floor. Then the lego lights descend for an uptempo dance break bathed in red strobe lighting – a dramatic moment of colour that momentarily takes your breath away.
The references provided by the Czechia delegation makes SO much sense when you see it on stage and on screen – the white is a dramatic metaphor for a clean break, and Adonx delivering the dismissal in the lyrics through lots of close-up camerawork is definitely a mood. No pyro or props, presumably because that would mess with the clean. This morning has been quite the ride already, no?
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