Dancing the Night Away

The winter wind has been blowing and I have been distracting myself with plenty of movies and entertainment. My favorite movies of the year: Doubt and Slumdog Millionaire. My girlfriends and I did have fun watching He's Just Not That Into You. It was definitely "A watch it in the afternoon with popcorn and loud commentary" type movie. (Loud naughty commentary that you only say when men aren't around.)

We are in the middle of February vacation here and Inga and I seem to be spending it at the local Arts Center. Wednesday night we braved a small snow squall, found the parking garage, and went to see the dance troupe Pilobolus. Pilobolus, it turns out, is a type of fungus that is tiny but capable of throwing dung filled spores some two meters in the air over the backs of cows. I guess they picked this name for their dance group because they can jump really high?? Did they originally practice in cow pastures? Their dances transform like fungus? I spent some time considering this before the show started as it was delayed due to the half full house due to the weather. We enjoyed it though it was a bit uneven. I had the feeling they didn't put on their best show for us small towners. In between each dance the house lights came up completely which was kinda weird and distracting. The first piece was some combo of Bladerunner, street dancing, water running, and African drumming. It had a bit where all the dancers appeared to be super heroes from the future moving in slow motion. Pretty cool, but the whole time I was focused on this tiny dancer with tiny short arms and legs. She really looked odd. Dancers usually have long beautiful arms and legs and to make matters worse she was constantly dancing with a tall blond Adonis type guy. Eventually, I got over that hang up. Our favorite dance involved Jazz and lots of moving of chairs. In all the dances at some point the women ended up folded up on the men's heads. I liked that part. In the last dance they were mostly naked which I actually didn't like. I am not a prude but it was a little hard to focus on the actual dancing! I like my dancers with clothes.
Tomorrow night we are going to see Cirque Mechanics which is supposed to be like Cirque Du Soleil. It should be good. No matter what the performance Inga and I love to get dressed up and go to a show.