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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 2, 2018 - 11:32pm PT
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Looked interesting, this year in mid-August:
FESTIVAL PAVILLION SHOW
Acrobatic Conundrum
BANDALOOP
Veronica Blair
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Cassius
climber
Berkeley, CA
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Ed,
Joanna Haigood, the artistic director of Zaccho, is the real deal -- a committed and inspired artist. I've seen a number of her shows over the years (although mostly back in the 90s) and really liked them. Zaccho is quite different from Bandaloop, if you've ever seen them. I wholeheartedly recommend checking them out.
Chris
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2018 - 10:20am PT
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thanks Chris,
I was going to check it out this year (it seems to be every other year) and was wondering if any of the STForum denizens had seen the performances in the past.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2018 - 12:19am PT
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I got to see the August 12th performance, I enjoyed it, a different kinetic expression with familiar forces and constraints.
The aerial performances I am familiar with are mostly circus performance on a high wire, or trapeze. Probably the last time I saw a live performance was at the Big Apple Circus in NYC sometime in the 1980s, with my then young daughter, and my good climbing partner Mike Church and his wife Sue Mendelsohn. I remember just how close to the edge the high wire act seemed, climbers are familiar with not only the sense of concentration and focus, but also the musculature of the performers. Mike commented about his anxiety too.
Playing with gravity is serious business, we appreciate the not only the skill of the performers but also the risks they take, and the dedication to practice that mitigates some of that risk.
The Aerial Arts Festival is more like vertical dance, using gravity and the constraints of ropes to provide a different set of kinetic factors to express some artistic idea.
I think it mostly worked, the three featured artists/groups were: BANDALOOP, Acrobatic Conundrum and Veronica Blair. The performance took place on four "stages" with the audience walking down the hall from one to the other, and then outside to view the final act.
Here's Veronica Blair, Forgiveness, Thank You":
the crowd was apparently the largest of the three days, but the proximity to the performances was quite close, wonderful to watch the athletic aspects of the performance along side the artistic.
Acrobatic Conundrum did the next act, "The End of the Rope", many interesting pieces sub-pieces held together by the music played by P. J. Perry,
video would have been better, but I was working with an iPhone, and I was there to enjoy the performance...
The final acts by BANDALOOP,
The only other time I've seen them was when they were rehearsing out at Vedauwoo, a decade or so ago...
that's Freddie offering some climber appreciation (though I think he knew the director and the rigger).
All in all a worthwhile "climbing related" cultural outing, and also with my daughter, many decades since the last such.
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