Drama...

So tonight I thought it would be fun to get out of the house and go experience something a bit different for me.  I always think that I need to get out there and do more alternative artsy things.  Get a bit of interesting culture... This week there is an International Festival for Contemporary Performing Arts (Junge Hunde) in town.  So I thought tonight I would go to a couple of them

And I seriously have no idea what happened while I was in there.  It was interesting that is for sure.  There was a lot of pauses where the dancers (who seemed to me to be convulsing on the ground) and the strange music/noise would stop, and a recorded voice would come on and in code (artsy?) talk about past/present/future.. I honestly just didn't get it.  I tried...

The name of the act: Lebenswelt. The description I read before I went:  "We understand the world in our own way, according to our perceptions.  Two dancers without a common ground of which or whose reality is the one in question, confront a communication blind. Fear, faith and need, forces their bodies in extreme physical states considering the things they would do, the things they would not do..."

In reality there were three dancers - one man and two women, and sometimes a man singing in high falsetto was added in there in the intermittent video incorporated into the scene.  (and sometimes the dancers were naked on the screen too - not everything showed but full topless for sure)  I think that I just felt like the whole dance was about addiction, where they were withering on the ground going through withdrawals of one another when they were apart?  I don't know.  I guess that is what makes it art.  You watch and come away thinking what the frick... but still gives you something to think about.  Maybe it would be more fun if I brought Nate with me so we could at least talk about it after (even though I can't see him even entertaining the idea of going to something so avant-garde).. Hmm... well didn't make it to the second one, thought probably one hour of that was enough for me tonight.  It's still going this weekend so who knows....

Off to Sweden at 5:50am tomorrow so better hit the sack so I don't crash the moment I sit down in the train and can actually take in some of the sights on my way there  :-D