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Pinewoods 6: dancing
Jul. 28th, 2004 02:09 am(The astute among you may notice that my mood is no longer "exhausted." I think, I hope, that my bug has finally bugged out. I'm still coughing a bit, but I feel close to human today.)
There's this persistent rumor that people dance at Pinewoods. I tend not to—I go to play music and to socialize and to enjoy the wilderness, and while I enjoy dancing it loses out when it conflicts with any of those three things. I did dance two dances at the formal ball on Friday: Machine without Horses with Kendra, which went very well, and Pelorus Jack with Miriam, which went less well. Other people danced many things, and seemed to enjoy themselves.
( See here. )
Despite my general lack of dancitude, I do tend to enjoy the formal ball, since everyone looks truly fabulous.
( See? )
I did see rapper for the first time. Hey![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kelilah—I get it now. You were right. Rapper is really really cool. Miriam and I enjoyed a command performance in the Pinecones party on Friday night: she and I were ensconced on the couch, and the rapper team (all crewpeople) danced about eight inches away from us, in a very cramped and crowded room in Pinecones. (I tried to pull our legs in tight, but even so one girl brushed my big toe and pretty much went spinning across the room like a rogue firework. Another dancer split her thumb open with one of the swords. Rapper is hazardous, it seems, at least when performed in a confined space.)
For those who don't know, rapper is sort of a high-velocity version of the knot game. It involves a group of people (five?) holding flexible "swords" with swivelling handles at both ends, each sword held by two people. They never release the swords, and under that constraint undertake fabulous acrobatic feats and patterns—backflips, inversions, sweeps, stars, etc.—all while clogging at high speed. Each "dance", as far as I can tell, ends with all five swords linked together into a pentacle, which is then held aloft to mad applause. Sadly, my camera was in my bag on the porch at the time, and I was too impossibly cozy on the couch to get up for it, but if any of you seekelilah I'm sure she'd be happy to pull together an impromptu demo. (Incidentally, I asked one of the Pinewoods rappers, Amelia, if she was familiar with Charles River Rapper, kelilah's group, and she said she was—she's hung out with Hannah, apparently.)
There's this persistent rumor that people dance at Pinewoods. I tend not to—I go to play music and to socialize and to enjoy the wilderness, and while I enjoy dancing it loses out when it conflicts with any of those three things. I did dance two dances at the formal ball on Friday: Machine without Horses with Kendra, which went very well, and Pelorus Jack with Miriam, which went less well. Other people danced many things, and seemed to enjoy themselves.
( See here. )
Despite my general lack of dancitude, I do tend to enjoy the formal ball, since everyone looks truly fabulous.
( See? )
I did see rapper for the first time. Hey
kelilah—I get it now. You were right. Rapper is really really cool. Miriam and I enjoyed a command performance in the Pinecones party on Friday night: she and I were ensconced on the couch, and the rapper team (all crewpeople) danced about eight inches away from us, in a very cramped and crowded room in Pinecones. (I tried to pull our legs in tight, but even so one girl brushed my big toe and pretty much went spinning across the room like a rogue firework. Another dancer split her thumb open with one of the swords. Rapper is hazardous, it seems, at least when performed in a confined space.)For those who don't know, rapper is sort of a high-velocity version of the knot game. It involves a group of people (five?) holding flexible "swords" with swivelling handles at both ends, each sword held by two people. They never release the swords, and under that constraint undertake fabulous acrobatic feats and patterns—backflips, inversions, sweeps, stars, etc.—all while clogging at high speed. Each "dance", as far as I can tell, ends with all five swords linked together into a pentacle, which is then held aloft to mad applause. Sadly, my camera was in my bag on the porch at the time, and I was too impossibly cozy on the couch to get up for it, but if any of you see
kelilah I'm sure she'd be happy to pull together an impromptu demo. (Incidentally, I asked one of the Pinewoods rappers, Amelia, if she was familiar with Charles River Rapper, kelilah's group, and she said she was—she's hung out with Hannah, apparently.)
