2000-05-19 13:40:16 pilobolus was prettttttty disappointing last night. I was too bad. there were 4 pieces. the first one was AMAZING. taiko drums like a mufucka, wicked loud. and the pilobolus kids doing that thing they do, defying gravity and all laws of physics. which is really insanely amazing, when they do it well. there were people just walking up the bodies of other people, and sometimes the dancers would be moving all over the stage from one body to the next and would be up there for minutes without touching the stage. which is pretty neat. and it's cool becuase sometimes you're like? is that a hand? a foot? how is that person being held up? where's their head? what's going on? who's my daddy? that kind of thing. then the second piece was just ok. it was a DREAM SEQUENCE, OOOOOOOOOO!!!!! so it started with the girl going to bed, so you knew right away it would end up with her back in bed. which, hello, is LAME. but there were lots of cool maneuvers in this one. but it was also really creepy because it was about this girl, and she was having all kinds of sexy dreams about 3 men? one of whom was her father? I don't know. it was creepy, and the music was waaaaay fake-trumpet-sound-on-the-synthesizer, which is just...why would anyone compose music with that sound? why? then the third one, was a glorified rape scene about two sailors who are harassing this hot waitresses, and she starts to like it and gets into it. and they used a serving tray as a prop and kept carrying her around on it like she was a piece of food or something. and the whole thing was hilarious to the audience. the choreographers probably intended it to be funny, which is why they (two women, believe it or not) are idiots. it was just stupid. and there weren't even any cool moves or anything. just a bunch of prancing around. I get that at home, thank you. plus the music sounded like it was from the worst 80s movie soundtrack ever. then the last one, was, i don't know. I just didn't get into it. the music was a collection of brian eno/david byrne & talking heads. hi, used that much in dance performances yet? anyways, the tranisitions between all the songs were totally abrupt and I couldn't tell what that was all about. and the dancing in a lot of parts seemed sloppy. the parts were the choreography was in unison just looked like everyone was kinda doing their own take on it, so that was distracting. and everytime it looked like they were going to do something cool it turned out to NOT be. so that was disappointing. but then when they took their bows, they spread out water on the stage and they all went slip sliding past in all these poses and spitting water at each other and breakdancing and getting water everywhere, and it was soooooo cool to look at, plus it looked like they were having fun, and why wasn't that incorporated into a piece? why? it was way more entertaining then the other last 2 pieces. and finally. I love going to dance performances. more than art museums, more than book or poetry readings, and more than going to see bands play. and of course more than going to movies. it's my favorite kind of art to watch, probably because I know the least about it. you get your music, your cool body shapes, etc etc. BUT. the thing that sucks about going to dance performances, at least in boston, is that you have to be quiet, but people still need to let other people know that they are way smarter or ARTSIER then the people around them. whenever anything remotely surprising or cool happens on stage, you immediately hear at least the 20 people sitting right around you go "Mmmm." or "Hmmm." WHY THE FUDGE do they do that? we all saw the same thing. no one cares if you found it interesting! SHUT UP! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!!!! YOU RUIN EVERYTHING!!!! "Mmmm." that's really inciteful. would you please shut the fuck up. would you please NOT have to sit next to me. "Mmmm" = "Because I am more cultured than those of you around me, it's important for me to annouce, verbally, whenever I see something interesting happen onstage, because you, you plebians, you commoners, you unwashed and uncultured hooligans, probably were too busy picking your noses to notice that anything of import was happening on stage." OR OR OR. like this woman next to me last night. the first piece featured, among other things I NOTICED, and big naked bald black man and a big naked bald white man sort of contorting around each other, and this woman, right in the middle of the performance, turns to her person next to her and says, loud enough for everyone to hear: "aaaah, I see. the yin. and the yang." NO WRONG YOU SUCK SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT TIRED TIRED SHIT!!!!!!!!!!! Courts do not like to judge the fairness of a K. thank you very much & credits music: |
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