Pilobolus
What a GREAT night!!
Christine, Surayyah, and I went to the Warner Theatre in DC to see Pilobolus perform their 35th Anniversary Celebration.
Christine drove to my house from Wilmington and I drove us into the city. Driving in DC can make me very nervous but we had *plenty* of time and I wasn’t alone, huge help. There was a little detouring but we drove down the street the theater was on and parked in a garage (actually, it was valet) right there. There was also a Starbucks there too where we had our chai and waited for Surayyah.
We hung out and chatted about school for a while and headed across the street, bypassing the line for the box office and heading straight to our seats. The theater is pretty, we guessed from the 1920’s or so by it’s decor. They started relatively on time and from our high seats we had a good view of it all. Higher seats are better when it comes to seeing floor patterns. The pieces were unique from eachother so it was a great variety. I didn’t have a favorite piece, but the last one was really cool. All rock music, with crazy flying/falling. It used a mat on the floor. There was another, a duet. The man and woman started as and old couple and evolved into what I saw as different relationship phases and back to old age. It was cool, funny, and cute. We all agreed that Pilobulous has evolved from their more gymnastic, less dancy roots, becoming a famous modern dance company. Hopefully they’ll keep their roots in mind as they evolve. It’s still great.
It gave me so much motivation for dancing, for choreograhing the dance Emily and I will do at church on November 19th (9 and 11am). It also reinstilled my desire to be near a dance hub where I can keep growing and being closer to performing opportunities. I was bouncing when we left.
The drive home was almost as relatively easy as coming in, except for one significant difference, the lights didn’t come on automatically. I think the garage attendant turned them off manually and as I had not driven the car (my dad’s snazzy Acura) at night, I didn’t think to check for them. Driving through the city I could see just fine but another driver on New York Avenue let me know they were off. I didn’t know how to turn them on so I quickly restarted the car. When we got on the highway there was no light in front of me, they still weren’t on somehow, sheesh.
Tim and Sara Ellen visited his dad tonight and left around 4:30. I got home after 11. That’s probably the longest I’ve been away. Tim said she did ok and she giggled when she saw me. She’s so cute. She’s still happly toddling around (12:00 am), though she’s heading up the stairs…. Here I go too.
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