Cultural Event #6

After this week, there's only one more: Theatre! Then I will be officially cultured and an obviously better human being.

This week I went to the Pioneer Legacy dance performance at the Covey Center for the Arts. It was a very long day and this wasn't a great way to end it. I discovered tonight that I am not the biggest dance fan.

I've been to ballets before and stomached through it because that's what you do when you want to appear cultured. What a bunch of crap. I guarantee that 90% of the people who go to these things would much rather be at home reading a book. Instead, they get all dressed up and go so they can tell their neighbors how refined they are.

Anyways, a flowing, WAY OVERLY-DRAMATIC narrative guided the dances. "We had a dream... yes... a dream. A dream... of dreams... we were dreaming... about achieving our dreams... in our dreams.... and now a dance." At first, the dancers were poorly costumed and contorting themselves to ill-selected music. Later, they decided to go with the theme of the show and dress as actual pioneers. They attemped to dance on boats, the plains, and in Salt-Lake City. I say attempted because it really reminded me of that modern dance lady we talked about in class who was like, "OoooOoooO! Look! I'm Nature!" as she carelessly tossed her sanity out the window. They even had a whole number devoted to children in their pajamas hugging each other. Needless to say, there were a few too many warm fuzzies for me to breathe in the auditorium. After some air, I went back in to finish the performance.

It did get progressively better, so I think it was worthwhile. There were probably a lot more people there who actually enjoyed it. I personally felt that the dancing could use A LOT of work, but the auditorium was great. Performance gets a... oh alright, a 6. (but just because I'm feeling nice) Atmosphere gets a 10, they keep that place clean. Over all, however, the best part about going was being able to ride my motorcycle there and back.

Class for Week 6

Class this week has been a great improvement over last week. I loved listening to music and watching video clips as opposed to straight lecture.

The end of the semester is so close I can almost taste it... I'll have to work extra hard to maintain focus in class. You have no idea how hard I'm working right now to keep typing. It's depressing, what once would have excited me, a Dada rant, now serves only to bore me as I continue on.

Wow. I'm actually sad about it! Maybe I'll get to rant in my final paper...

Reading for Week 6

We were asked this week to write a blog on some kind of theater. I chose Dada theater.

Pretty standard Dada... the whole point was to get a rise out of people. In the early nineteen hundreds they acutally succeeded in getting the audience to rise up out of their seats, storm the stage, and hunt down the actors. They were delighted at what they had done to the public.

In all truth, the reading was rather dull. Usually it would excite me, but I guess the end of the semester is just too close.