Shen Wei Dance Arts...etc.
Ooooooh... This weekend I went to see a performance by Shen Wei Dance Arts at the Kimmel center in Philadelphia. What a delight! I have never seen anything so unique to its genre before. The two pieces performed were "Resonance", and "the Rite of Spring". It was so nice to hear the four-hand piano version of Stravinsky's score.
I can't even begin to descibe the performances, I feel that the explanation would sell it short.
But, the first piece vaguelt reminded me of mitosis, primal one-celled organisms, and playing pieces at times.
The second piece was just amazing in that the amount of energy the dancers exerted could be heard by their breathing at the end of the performance. I just can't explain it, I don't want to cheapen the experience.
The only word of caution I will give is that Resonance contains nudity of women's torsos, if you are concerned about children attending. I took my 14 year old daughter, and she thought it was very tasteful, as the bodies are abstracted to a degree.
Yesterday we finished the crazy mosaic on my friend's patio wall. It's beautiful!
Philadelphia, you are lucky to have such a rich creative community!
Afterwards, we ate at Nam Phuong. GOOD Vietnamese spring rolls.
They had a Bush/Cheney sign on the door, and while we grimaced and complained, we still took our seats, feeling rather dirty. A group of three women came in, and told the waiter that they refused to eat there as long as the sign was on the door. The waiter took the sign down, and the women sat down. My party was feeling guilty for not making the same request, and I was torn.
On the one hand, I do not want to support a Bush supporter. On the other hand, this IS America, and isn't my using my monetary power politically to get a restaurant to remove a sign just as bad as a corporation who funds a political party? Or is it different because of the scale, or the motive, or because democracy really equals capitalism in the age? Wouldn't I be using my buying power to censor someone's political views? I'm against that wholeheartedly when it comes to the media, so why would it be different for me? I think maybe that it's not.
I would prefer that people jsut put signs on their lawns or in their windows and let others do what they will.
That is, of course, assuming your landlord is not like mine. There's not way I'd be able to hang a political sign in my window, because my landlord would use his power to censor me.
I don't want to be my landlord.
I'm glad I didn't ask them to take down the sign.
But I'm sorry we gave them our money.
Peace-
listening to: Icon of Coil - Pursuit
feeling: Surly
I can't even begin to descibe the performances, I feel that the explanation would sell it short.
But, the first piece vaguelt reminded me of mitosis, primal one-celled organisms, and playing pieces at times.
The second piece was just amazing in that the amount of energy the dancers exerted could be heard by their breathing at the end of the performance. I just can't explain it, I don't want to cheapen the experience.
The only word of caution I will give is that Resonance contains nudity of women's torsos, if you are concerned about children attending. I took my 14 year old daughter, and she thought it was very tasteful, as the bodies are abstracted to a degree.
Yesterday we finished the crazy mosaic on my friend's patio wall. It's beautiful!
Philadelphia, you are lucky to have such a rich creative community!
Afterwards, we ate at Nam Phuong. GOOD Vietnamese spring rolls.
They had a Bush/Cheney sign on the door, and while we grimaced and complained, we still took our seats, feeling rather dirty. A group of three women came in, and told the waiter that they refused to eat there as long as the sign was on the door. The waiter took the sign down, and the women sat down. My party was feeling guilty for not making the same request, and I was torn.
On the one hand, I do not want to support a Bush supporter. On the other hand, this IS America, and isn't my using my monetary power politically to get a restaurant to remove a sign just as bad as a corporation who funds a political party? Or is it different because of the scale, or the motive, or because democracy really equals capitalism in the age? Wouldn't I be using my buying power to censor someone's political views? I'm against that wholeheartedly when it comes to the media, so why would it be different for me? I think maybe that it's not.
I would prefer that people jsut put signs on their lawns or in their windows and let others do what they will.
That is, of course, assuming your landlord is not like mine. There's not way I'd be able to hang a political sign in my window, because my landlord would use his power to censor me.
I don't want to be my landlord.
I'm glad I didn't ask them to take down the sign.
But I'm sorry we gave them our money.
Peace-
listening to: Icon of Coil - Pursuit
feeling: Surly
posted by Dead Mouse Girl at 11:30 AM
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