dipping our toes in circus
after a bit of waffling about the rain, moominmolly and i stilted again on saturday, again with klingonlandlady (and this time with fraterrisus doing the carnival-barker thing). it didn't rain all that hard, in the end, and umbrellas held by people on stilts turn out to look pretty cool.
and this time the show sold out! pretty early on. so we decided that our work attracting customers was done, and slipped off the stilts to crouch in the back of the room and actually watch some of the other acts. w00t!
harm_city_heart, having apparently scoped out the boundaries of the (tiny) performance space the night before, was fun to watch with her fans. and serrin had two awesome contortion acts. :) i'd seen the one with roger before in practice, though it was interesting to see how different it was in performance. at silks, they looked very casual, like they were just playing around, still making stuff up-- but they had this beautiful fluidity, like contact improv folks "just playing around"; they always looked intimately connected and in tune, his center was always right under hers, etc. in performance they lost some of the easy fluidity (maybe distracted by the small performance space-- she could easily have hit her head on the ceiling a couple of times if she hadn't paid attention), but they added this hot tango styling-- she would step away with her head turned and he would pull her back, or they would ease back into a pose without ever breaking eye contact-- that worked really well with the act. :)
it was a long show, and we turned into pumpkins early and once again missed the burlesque in the second half, alas. still, it made for a great evening.
sunday... sunday we didn't quite make as many stilts as we'd hoped. so we've got, well, later this week, to come to some sort of decisions about the new stilt design and maybe make some more stilts including maybe some tiny child stilts. and for me to make 112 more beanbags. :)
this weekend, wildfire...
and this time the show sold out! pretty early on. so we decided that our work attracting customers was done, and slipped off the stilts to crouch in the back of the room and actually watch some of the other acts. w00t!
harm_city_heart, having apparently scoped out the boundaries of the (tiny) performance space the night before, was fun to watch with her fans. and serrin had two awesome contortion acts. :) i'd seen the one with roger before in practice, though it was interesting to see how different it was in performance. at silks, they looked very casual, like they were just playing around, still making stuff up-- but they had this beautiful fluidity, like contact improv folks "just playing around"; they always looked intimately connected and in tune, his center was always right under hers, etc. in performance they lost some of the easy fluidity (maybe distracted by the small performance space-- she could easily have hit her head on the ceiling a couple of times if she hadn't paid attention), but they added this hot tango styling-- she would step away with her head turned and he would pull her back, or they would ease back into a pose without ever breaking eye contact-- that worked really well with the act. :)
it was a long show, and we turned into pumpkins early and once again missed the burlesque in the second half, alas. still, it made for a great evening.
sunday... sunday we didn't quite make as many stilts as we'd hoped. so we've got, well, later this week, to come to some sort of decisions about the new stilt design and maybe make some more stilts including maybe some tiny child stilts. and for me to make 112 more beanbags. :)
this weekend, wildfire...