We didn’t get the lanterns finished on Wednesday, so we scheduled a finish-up work party for Saturday afternoon. We set up an assembly line and sent lantern parts down one by one: first Leah, Jordan, and Maja picked out color clusters and glued them onto the lantern bases, then Becky, Ellery, and I wired up the LEDs, then Richard, Mellington, and Barry soldered them together… with some switching of positions, and some coming and going, of course. We crunched through 34 of them before I had to leave, and the rest of the crew finished off the remaining six. Forty finished multicolored LED lanterns, with (mostly) waterproof cases and ground-stakes and switches and everything! So satisfying. They are bright and will make a beautiful, unusual accent for Barry & Maja’s wedding.
After soldering, I picked up Ava and we went to see Jerboa Dance perform “continuum”. Being a modern dance piece, I wasn’t actually expecting to understand it, and was astonished to find that it had a clear story arc with individual characters who developed relationships with each other of the course of the performance. All through motion and expression. Really well done, enjoyed it, would go see it again.
This video has an intro but if you skip to about 1:45 there is a really amazing, simple, modern dance that Carolyn, Olivia and I saw live. It’s really well done and I think you might enjoy it! Another show you would probably like is “Stomp”. It’s a Blue Man Group style percussion performance that uses regular items like brooms and buckets as instruments – here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-_mUAhzhkg
Comment by Joanna — June 9, 2010 @ 12:38 am
oh wait! I forgot to give you the link to the first video! haha, here it is- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbaXtHTufM&feature=related
Comment by Joanna — June 9, 2010 @ 12:39 am