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/The Pants of a Roxy Usher/
Oct. 11th, 2006 10:56 amI ushered for the IU Audiotorium for the first time last night. I had door duty, so I just held open the door and greeted people as they entered, told people where the various diffrent ticket lines were, and said that the IU Audiotorium did not validate parking.
The other guy that held the other door open was pretty cool. I mean, how often does someone ask what flavor of multipule dimenional theory you cater too?
But the most exciting thing of all was when the fire engines came. For pretty much no reason, except a little earlier I saw a pulled alarm, but if it was for that, they were more than two hours late.
Anyway, I did my bit and so I got to watch Martha Grahm's Dance Company for free. I was... underwhelmed by it, and very glad I did not pay to see "Diversion of Angels" or "Appalacion Spring" when then they started to do segements of "The Chronicles" That last one just rocked the house down, if one can indeed rock down with modern ballet. Especialy the first segment of "Spectre - 1914." Though "Steps in the Street" and "Prelude to Action" where also lovely.
All "The Chronicals" deals with the horror of war, and was specificaly written in 1936 inconcurrence with rise of fascisim in Europe, with "Spectre - 1914" being subtitled before the catastrophy, and "Steps and the Street" being subtitled after the catastrophy, and "Prelude to Action" being subtittled a plege to the future, but sadly the ending parts of the dance where everyone realized that the idea sucked didn't happen until the deaths of 55 million people.
In other words, I apparently like my modern ballet with heeps of angst.
The other guy that held the other door open was pretty cool. I mean, how often does someone ask what flavor of multipule dimenional theory you cater too?
But the most exciting thing of all was when the fire engines came. For pretty much no reason, except a little earlier I saw a pulled alarm, but if it was for that, they were more than two hours late.
Anyway, I did my bit and so I got to watch Martha Grahm's Dance Company for free. I was... underwhelmed by it, and very glad I did not pay to see "Diversion of Angels" or "Appalacion Spring" when then they started to do segements of "The Chronicles" That last one just rocked the house down, if one can indeed rock down with modern ballet. Especialy the first segment of "Spectre - 1914." Though "Steps in the Street" and "Prelude to Action" where also lovely.
All "The Chronicals" deals with the horror of war, and was specificaly written in 1936 inconcurrence with rise of fascisim in Europe, with "Spectre - 1914" being subtitled before the catastrophy, and "Steps and the Street" being subtitled after the catastrophy, and "Prelude to Action" being subtittled a plege to the future, but sadly the ending parts of the dance where everyone realized that the idea sucked didn't happen until the deaths of 55 million people.
In other words, I apparently like my modern ballet with heeps of angst.
