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| 19 August 2023 |
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| Béatrice Larrivée, left & Noa Lee Ashkenazi right |
Tonight I went to the Arts Umbrella Dance Company’s theatre on Granville Island to see a performance with Béatrice Larrivée & Noa Lee Ashkenazi with original music by Morgan Bobrow-Williams, costume design by Gon Biran and the lighting was by Andie Llyod.
Reading about Gaga, the dance method pioneered by the Bathsheba Dance Company in Tel Aviv, does not prepare you at all for what I saw for close to an hour. The two dancers were sweating by then. I felt wonderfully exhausted.
This is the sort of dance, which to me is a notch above what we would call modern dance. Both dancers, in the proximity of the small theatre, showed lots of emotion and pathos. It was like dance within a play within a dance. I will not try to explain why there were baskets of apples everywhere and why the dancers would munch on them. We the audience did at the end, too.
I felt privileged to be there and to be given the seat in the middle of firstrow at the bottom of the theatre (dancers have to be photographed from the floor to make them look taller).
I took 441 snaps and very happy that my Fuji X-E3 has a completely silent electronic shutter so I did not intrude.
I am quite tired but I felt I had to fix a few, 16 in all, in which I used my method of switching to very slow shutter speeds. I call them swirls and to make them standout I use my 19-year-old Photoshop 8.
I will be back tomorrow with my granddaughter Lauren. I will be able to anticipate many of the moves I may want to shoot again. But then the ones I am putting here are not bad at all.
Why, with what is left of our Vancouver media, they do not understand that they prevented so many in our city, so poor in culture (not quite, seeing what I saw today!) miss by not giving a radio, TV or newspaper preview? Why was nobody from the media there tonight? Why is our CBC keep telling us about bridge traffic?
