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the end of the dance, the beginning
Aug. 18th, 2016 05:55 pmWith me on the train was a woman who spoke some Mi'kmaq and remembered the old names of the stations and had with her a service dog named Scruffy and three tourists who were trying to figure out where they wanted to go and where they needed to go to get there.
A violinist had a tattoo of a mandala design on her shoulder and on her other arm, a tree, a loop of vines that looked like writing that terminated in a downward spiral. Her pants had circular patterns and elephants.
Some of the dancers sat behind me. Juan and Erik were part of the program, the woman with a pocket watch pendant and the woman with an indigo pendant and indigo earrings were dancers but only went onstage for an encore.
A woman has half green and half magenta hair with purple in front.
Richard Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue from On Your Toes: the first musical to incorporate classical dance and one of the first to incorporate jazz.
Nikos Skalkottas: Ellenike Chori: Kritikos, Kleftikos, Epirotikos. Three Greek dances out of the thirtysix that he wrote. Dedicated to our retiring Esplanade caretaker. Opa!
Clint Needham: Urban Sprawl: the dance for this is based on Jackson Pollock's art and their costumes look like Pollock used Mondrian's palette. I think he mashed some existing works in there.
Ryan Edwards and Patrick Greene: Mabinte: A world premiere, for orchestra, percussion, and dancers, dedicated to a friend of the composer from Guinea. There's a quiet interlude, and a trumpet solo.
Gabriella showed up midway through. Nabucco isn't quite integrated with the other cats yet but she's doing better with them.
Here is a story about cats: Alex heard a shrieking meow and thought "what are you getting into now?" and her cat Lilah was chasing her cat Alice, and she said that Alice probably started it. Alice is the skittish one, Lilah is the nice one. Both of them are orange tabbies. Maybe her name isn't Lilah. I'm sure it started with L, or maybe it started with T.
Gonzalo Grau: Hermana Frontera: the second of two world premieres this year, depicting the borderland between Colombia and Venezuela and the cultures shared by the two countries. It opens with plains music, the tonada, the pasaje, the joropo, and then a garabato and chandé blended with a tamborera.
Kareem Roustom: Armenian Dances: this attempts to recreate the sounds of the dumbek, duduk, and zurna with standard orchestral instruments. Kareem suggested putting a cardboard mute with a kazoo jammed in it, but Dana decided upon a buzz-wow mute instead. I don't think it sounds like a muted trumpet with a kazoo jammed in the mute, it sounds like a clarinet with a kazoo replacing the mouthpiece. It's not quite a crumhorn. It's a lot higher pitched than a crumhorn and it's a lot less resonant and buzzy. Armenian dances look like Balkans dances but sound Caucasian, as one would expect. At least two thirds of them had Armenian given names and they all looked relatively young so I'm not sure if mass immigration from Armenia is still happening or if Armenians are like Irish when it comes to not assimilating with names. In July, there was a hostage crisis but the information flow from Armenia is like Africa's and I can find absolutely nothing about what the opposition represents. I guess there were some controversies involving the ruling party and they seem to be Putinist National Conservatives. or, in other words, not the kind of people we want to see ruling. On the other hand, an opposition figure thought that they were making too many concessions to Azerbaijan. It's probably mostly the former, then.
Fancy Free: the ballet by Leonard Bernstein with original choreography involving a hat they discover, the abilities that the hat gives them, and the hat mysteriously disappearing but all the abilities came from within. It starts with a recording of a song Bernstein wrote to be sung by Billie Holliday, as if played on a juke box. The movie On The Town is based on the original ballet. Sterling Archer mixes it up with The Manchurian Candidate.
burning question: Oh, my God. How the hell does this have anything to do with a movie about three sailors, Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, who fall in love with three crazy gals, Ivy, Hildy and Claire, during a 24-hour shore leave in New York? Oh, and it's a musical?
A violinist had a tattoo of a mandala design on her shoulder and on her other arm, a tree, a loop of vines that looked like writing that terminated in a downward spiral. Her pants had circular patterns and elephants.
Some of the dancers sat behind me. Juan and Erik were part of the program, the woman with a pocket watch pendant and the woman with an indigo pendant and indigo earrings were dancers but only went onstage for an encore.
A woman has half green and half magenta hair with purple in front.
Richard Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue from On Your Toes: the first musical to incorporate classical dance and one of the first to incorporate jazz.
Nikos Skalkottas: Ellenike Chori: Kritikos, Kleftikos, Epirotikos. Three Greek dances out of the thirtysix that he wrote. Dedicated to our retiring Esplanade caretaker. Opa!
Clint Needham: Urban Sprawl: the dance for this is based on Jackson Pollock's art and their costumes look like Pollock used Mondrian's palette. I think he mashed some existing works in there.
Ryan Edwards and Patrick Greene: Mabinte: A world premiere, for orchestra, percussion, and dancers, dedicated to a friend of the composer from Guinea. There's a quiet interlude, and a trumpet solo.
Gabriella showed up midway through. Nabucco isn't quite integrated with the other cats yet but she's doing better with them.
Here is a story about cats: Alex heard a shrieking meow and thought "what are you getting into now?" and her cat Lilah was chasing her cat Alice, and she said that Alice probably started it. Alice is the skittish one, Lilah is the nice one. Both of them are orange tabbies. Maybe her name isn't Lilah. I'm sure it started with L, or maybe it started with T.
Gonzalo Grau: Hermana Frontera: the second of two world premieres this year, depicting the borderland between Colombia and Venezuela and the cultures shared by the two countries. It opens with plains music, the tonada, the pasaje, the joropo, and then a garabato and chandé blended with a tamborera.
Kareem Roustom: Armenian Dances: this attempts to recreate the sounds of the dumbek, duduk, and zurna with standard orchestral instruments. Kareem suggested putting a cardboard mute with a kazoo jammed in it, but Dana decided upon a buzz-wow mute instead. I don't think it sounds like a muted trumpet with a kazoo jammed in the mute, it sounds like a clarinet with a kazoo replacing the mouthpiece. It's not quite a crumhorn. It's a lot higher pitched than a crumhorn and it's a lot less resonant and buzzy. Armenian dances look like Balkans dances but sound Caucasian, as one would expect. At least two thirds of them had Armenian given names and they all looked relatively young so I'm not sure if mass immigration from Armenia is still happening or if Armenians are like Irish when it comes to not assimilating with names. In July, there was a hostage crisis but the information flow from Armenia is like Africa's and I can find absolutely nothing about what the opposition represents. I guess there were some controversies involving the ruling party and they seem to be Putinist National Conservatives. or, in other words, not the kind of people we want to see ruling. On the other hand, an opposition figure thought that they were making too many concessions to Azerbaijan. It's probably mostly the former, then.
Fancy Free: the ballet by Leonard Bernstein with original choreography involving a hat they discover, the abilities that the hat gives them, and the hat mysteriously disappearing but all the abilities came from within. It starts with a recording of a song Bernstein wrote to be sung by Billie Holliday, as if played on a juke box. The movie On The Town is based on the original ballet. Sterling Archer mixes it up with The Manchurian Candidate.
burning question: Oh, my God. How the hell does this have anything to do with a movie about three sailors, Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, who fall in love with three crazy gals, Ivy, Hildy and Claire, during a 24-hour shore leave in New York? Oh, and it's a musical?
