The West Coast premiere Thursday afternoon of John Luther Adams' recent "Sila" for dozens of musicians stationed around Libbey Park gave the impression of the trees taking audible breaths, the ground groaning, the wind in happy duet with the flowers and the stones dancing.
As our movements through virtual space take us near her sculpture, a stained glass window in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright set in a rusticated stone arch, dancing couples assembled from geometric panes of colored glass strut out in front of us and perform to a pulsing tango beat.
Many among us have made similar resolutions in the wee hours of the first day of a new year, only to have that resolve crumble when faced with the daunting prospect of attending a major social occasion — a wedding, a night out dancing — stone-cold sober.
Each world has an object or character you can interact with (dancing stones, little monster, arcade games).
Even as President Bush was saying yesterday that "We continue to work with the Northern Alliance commanders to make sure they respect the human rights of the people that they're liberating," there were more reports of alliance soldiers lynching and stoning Taliban soldiers and dancing on their corpses.
"There were members of Ash wearing flowery Caribbean shirts and dancing to The Stone Roses," says bassist Jamie Reynolds.
And they're anodyne, at best; Guccifer trying to curry favor with an indifferent Stone or WikiLeaks and Trump Jr. dancing around each other with differing outcomes in mind.
Two days later, we had trekked to seven temples, including Banteay Srei, the pink stone Hindu temple carved with dancing goddesses and known as the "lady temple" — the one from which André Malraux stole the statues, though not, alas, the one from which Angelina Jolie emerged, guns blazing, as the tomb raider Lara Croft.
Two days later, we had trekked to seven temples, including Banteay Srei, the pink stone Hindu temple carved with dancing goddesses and known as the "lady temple"—the one from which André Malraux stole the statues, though not, alas, the one from which Angelina Jolie emerged, guns blazing, as the tomb raider Lara Croft.
As the festival closes, the worst extent of the catastrophes was a 22-stone man falling over while dancing - and destroying a long-cherished double bass.
