Greenwich: August 7
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skylark913August 7
Today was out last day with Heather. We watched a performance art piece by DV8 called "Strange FIsh." It reminded me of Meg in the sense that it was modern dance. It was really weird. Opened with a naked woman Jesus on the cross. She was singing a writhing, then crawled up to the top and started gyrating around it.
There was another scene where 2 men and 2 women were dancing in a big open space. I guess I'd describe it as contact dance, focusing on proximities. They were pushing through eachother and imitating eachother. It honestly looked like they were autistic at times, like they didn't understand how their body was supposed to move.
Then a character named Nigel came in. He incessantly talked. Reminded me of ADD from _Accepted_. He wanted to be intimate with someone, but the others weren't having it. They darted around the room, leaping into eachother's arms and giving flying hugs. As soon as they touched it was like Nigel couldn't touch them anymore. He also showed the charactistic of not understanding how his body worked or how to be intimate. He was trying to mimic the others, but didn't quite get it.
By far the weirdest scene was the sex scene. A man and woman met in the hallway and started contact dancing, interpreted as sex, or maybe foreplay. Then the met at the door to her room. She took her shirt off, the woman Jesus threw two stones on the floor between them, then it started raining stones in a wall seperating them. Cut to the man and woman having sex in the bed. She crawls out from beneath him, and he keeps going it like she is still there. She falls to the ground on the stones that fell earlier and began to writh about on the floor. The woman Jesus begins throwing rocks at her. Then people walk into the room and stare at her. She is ashamed and runs to a corner and puts her clothes back on. The people leave and the floor is destroyed, showing water underneath.
The end scene was back in the church with the woman Jesus on the cross. But this time the church looked like it had been bombed. The woman from the sex scene climbed up the cross and poured wine in Jesus's mouth then kissed her. Jesus fell off the cross and faded away.
It was really weird, and difficult to watch because it was so hard to understand. We had to give a performance analysis after watching this. It was tough. My group decided the woman was questioning her faith for reasons of sexuality and both her and Nigel weret rying to learn to operate with the dictated social norms. Then she had sex, and thought it was a sin, hence Jesus throwing rocks at her. Then she lost her faith at the end and Jesus disappeared. Weird. They have an excerpt of it on YouTube.
After classs I talked to Thom, napped and then went for Indian food (again). I went with the group who didn't go last night. Jusst as tasty! After food we stayed in and played Asshole. I drank hot chocolate tonight :). Then I watched _Finding Neverland_ with Ryan before bed.
Today was out last day with Heather. We watched a performance art piece by DV8 called "Strange FIsh." It reminded me of Meg in the sense that it was modern dance. It was really weird. Opened with a naked woman Jesus on the cross. She was singing a writhing, then crawled up to the top and started gyrating around it.
There was another scene where 2 men and 2 women were dancing in a big open space. I guess I'd describe it as contact dance, focusing on proximities. They were pushing through eachother and imitating eachother. It honestly looked like they were autistic at times, like they didn't understand how their body was supposed to move.
Then a character named Nigel came in. He incessantly talked. Reminded me of ADD from _Accepted_. He wanted to be intimate with someone, but the others weren't having it. They darted around the room, leaping into eachother's arms and giving flying hugs. As soon as they touched it was like Nigel couldn't touch them anymore. He also showed the charactistic of not understanding how his body worked or how to be intimate. He was trying to mimic the others, but didn't quite get it.
By far the weirdest scene was the sex scene. A man and woman met in the hallway and started contact dancing, interpreted as sex, or maybe foreplay. Then the met at the door to her room. She took her shirt off, the woman Jesus threw two stones on the floor between them, then it started raining stones in a wall seperating them. Cut to the man and woman having sex in the bed. She crawls out from beneath him, and he keeps going it like she is still there. She falls to the ground on the stones that fell earlier and began to writh about on the floor. The woman Jesus begins throwing rocks at her. Then people walk into the room and stare at her. She is ashamed and runs to a corner and puts her clothes back on. The people leave and the floor is destroyed, showing water underneath.
The end scene was back in the church with the woman Jesus on the cross. But this time the church looked like it had been bombed. The woman from the sex scene climbed up the cross and poured wine in Jesus's mouth then kissed her. Jesus fell off the cross and faded away.
It was really weird, and difficult to watch because it was so hard to understand. We had to give a performance analysis after watching this. It was tough. My group decided the woman was questioning her faith for reasons of sexuality and both her and Nigel weret rying to learn to operate with the dictated social norms. Then she had sex, and thought it was a sin, hence Jesus throwing rocks at her. Then she lost her faith at the end and Jesus disappeared. Weird. They have an excerpt of it on YouTube.
After classs I talked to Thom, napped and then went for Indian food (again). I went with the group who didn't go last night. Jusst as tasty! After food we stayed in and played Asshole. I drank hot chocolate tonight :). Then I watched _Finding Neverland_ with Ryan before bed.
