Dancing to Little Earthquakes
Last night, Travis and I were talking about dance. He observed that there was a particularly thriving dance community in Los Angeles. We speculated on why this was, and one of us joked that, because of all the seismic activity, it’s like you’re always dancing.
This morning I read about Dance Mori, a ballet by San Francisco Ballet “set to the reverberations of the planet’s crust”:
Ballet Mori, which will be performed once, on April 4, will feature a soundtrack created from live geological data, transmitted to the theatre from seismographs in the Hayward Fault in Berkeley. The company’s principal, Muriel Maffre, will respond with a semi-improvised dance. “Every recording that I’ve heard has evolved differently,” she said. “One will be eerie, another will be lyrical and another will be scary and mysterious.”
The piece honours the hundredth anniversary of the 1906 earthquake that devastated the city. Here’s a review of the performance.
On a related subject, I was bemused to encounter this page when I first visited www.sfballet.org. It states:
Your browser is not currently accepting cookies. Cookies are required to access this portion of the web site.
That, as it turns out, is the page that Google links to. I noticed this because I do indeed have cookies turned on. I wonder how that happened? More to the point, why would a dance company have that kind of requirement for their website?
On the other hand, I did like that they have a section of the site entitled First Time at SF Ballet?
April 9th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Further off topic: I thought I was one one of the few people left who had issues with cookies!