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The Pink Glove Dance video for breast cancer awareness. I love this video | |
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Went to the Wilma Theater last night to see Ballet X, a small company that does modern ballets, often world premiers, and often from local choreographers. Last night they did three short ballets, They Break, choreographed by Meredith Rainey, with music by David Lang, was first, and very good. I've always liked Rainey's dancing, and his choreography is interesting. And I like minimalism in music, so that was all good. The women wore ethereal slippy dresses and the men were shirtless with skirts that made them look like Spartan warriors or something. The dance gave us all sorts of combinations --groups and twos and threes, traditional pas de deux and also men lifting men and dancing two men with one woman rather than the more usual one man with two women. He's been doing this for a while, thankfully, so it looked effortless and not at all contrived. The movements did not seem to be terribly complex, but they never stopped--I didn't know how they breathed!
The second piece, Silt, by Alex Ketley from San Francisco, with a selection of music and not-music, was challenging in a lot of places--angle-y, almost painful looking movement vocabulary, and not a lot of sense to the way it was put together, but with occasional bits of brilliant sense here and there. Then, the final pas de deux of the piece was brilliant--the lifts were kind of strange, but sinuous rather than broken. It was absolutely riviting in a completely "Oh, Wow!" way. I'd like to see it again after he has another go at it.
The last piece, by Matthew Neenan, a personal favorite, was hugely fun. The music was Borodin, Vivaldi, and Shubert, the costumes looked like college kids out at the bars--short skirts and tops with a bit of ruffle or rhinestone on the girls and skinny jeans and tees on the boys, and it danced like that too. It was named "Last of the Year," but I thought of it as "Last Call of the Year!"
It rained while we were in the theater, but stopped before we got to the first corner after the show, so I walked home. Lovely night, all in all.
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This is an interesting link. If you click on your State you will find lots of tasty facts about demographics and healthcare costs. I think I've mentioned it before, but it's been updated, so I thought I'd mention it again. | |
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Went to Ballet X tonight. (world premiers! Will talk about in next post.) Was ambivalent about SPN--didn't so much forget to tape it as alternated reminding myself and walking away with it not done. Have now spoiled myself, and | |
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Had promised to go to DC for the Joshua Bell concert before I had the dates. Will miss everyone--the bad. On the other hand, Joshua Bell. Yay, that. | |
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The terribly proper British "expert" on the News Hour just called China our "frenemy!" When did all of Western culture turn into a high school cafeteria!?!?! | |
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Went to the Reading Terminal market today. It was insanely crowded, but I Stopped for lunch at Sang Kee. Yum. Much better able to cope with hte crowd after dry noodles (soup egg noodles, but without the soup) and duck. Got some loose tea at the Tea Leaf and brought home many fruits and vegetables from Iovines (dried cherries are my downfall. I have already eaten them all!) and cheese from Salumeria--a nice Arabella and some Feta to have with the tomato from the Pennslyvania Dutch stand. A New York steak from the new butcher who sells only natural, humanely grown beef from small independent farmers. Had half the steak for dinner--I have them butterflied and panfry for about two minutes on each side. With mushrooms and broccoli! Iovines has a million exotic vegetables, but I always buy the same ones because I don't know what to do with the more interesting ones. :( Back aches now--grapefruits are really heavy when you are carrying them with a bunch of other stuff for a mile and a half-- but I am on the couch, watching the hockey game. Life is good. | |
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I'm not sure I can watch SPN tonight. OUCH! the hockey game is 1-3 in our favor, so there is that.
Hockey game--Ottawa 1, Flyers 5! yay! Also, Nor'easter. Not so "yay." | |
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Day off. Went shopping--all day! Made serious dent in my list of necessary items. Still need a bunch of tops and a pair or two of shoes, but may have staved off going to work in tatters for a while. Bought new sunglasses, which I needed really badly. I have early stage cataracts, and need to protect my eyes from the UV. They are cool, and fit, which none of the other ones I tried did. Sunglasses that fit--I have missed you since my old pair broke! | |
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Have spent the second half of the day reeling with exhaustion from fun weekend with my nephew. We started with First Friday in Old City, followed by dinner at Ava's off South Street topped off with churros at las Bugambilias. Saturday we hit Jim's for cheesesteaks, then off to the Magic Garden, which is always a mindblowing experience. While we were there, half a dozen troups of morris dancers showed up--there was some sort of morris dancing tour roaming the city. Watching them dance in the courtyard of fractured mirrors and tiles and bicycle tires was strange and wonderful. But they wandered around the gardens with their bells on, which added a strange and wonderful bit of sensory overload to a pretty indescribably experience. The nephew was suitably impressed. We stopped at the Reading Market, then came home and rested a bit before we went out for sushi at Haru. Well, he had sushi. I had salmon teryaki. Then home to fall down again. Up early for pancakes at Mrs. K's this morning, then dropped the nephew off at the train station and walked down to the shambles for apples and honey. I spent the rest of the day too tired to move, and wishing I had the energy to go back out--such a beautiful day! | |
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