Happy NECCA circus day
Apr. 19th, 2015 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI've been away all week, and was home for about 2 hours on Friday before skipping off again, this time to NECCA's spring circus workshop weekend. I'm pretty sure yesterday was the best day I've had in a long time, so I'm going to tell you about it.
First, waking up with my excellent roomies![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melebeth and coraline -- actually just the latter, since the former was already up and gone to some sort of trapeze madness. The former and I ate more breakfast than usual and found our way to the German wheel workshop.
Ooh! My first time on the wheel, and such an ADORABLE instructor. I was quite enchanted. I stumbled and messed up, of course, but the wheel made sense to me. A lot of sense. It had a nice inertia and communication style. Whatever it was, two different people later told me they'd looked over from the adjacent dance trapeze class and thought I looked really comfortable. That fascinates me, that two people would choose the same word.
A 3.5 hour lunch break followed, with delicious salad and about two hours of reading 1Q84, which I'd started on the airplane on Friday and am really enjoying. Then flexibility (make that contortion) class with Intense Pixie, who knows many things about hips. She used me for demos, I got my frog stretch down really low (for me), and I did a back kickover at the end. Didn't pull anything, which is always a high priority in such endeavors.
Toward the end of class I looked up and there wasnorwoodbridge sitting in the hall! When it ended I bounced out to smooch him. We had dinner with melebeth and coraline on the waterfront, and then we were off to see nevers in performance with her ensemble.
As for that, I liked the show a lot -- the teasing lead-up to the excellent duo trap act, the highlighting of all the performers' injuries (real as far as I could tell), the handbalancing act with candles at the base of the canes. I was wondering how it went from the performers' point of view... maybe I'll get to find out. :-) I kind of didn't like the three-high -- I never do anymore, in performances -- but loved the transgender dance trapeze act, and the comedy guy (there's always a comedy guy) was not too over the top and was also a competent acro base.
We sneaked out quickly to get back to the hotel and into its hot tub. Then a soak or two later, I hopped over tonorwoodbridge's room for the night, and he helped me out with a certain kind of tension that had been plaguing me. We curled up, he zonked and, still on West Coast time a little bit, I read a few more pages of 1Q84 before happily closing my eyes.
First, waking up with my excellent roomies
melebeth and coraline -- actually just the latter, since the former was already up and gone to some sort of trapeze madness. The former and I ate more breakfast than usual and found our way to the German wheel workshop.Ooh! My first time on the wheel, and such an ADORABLE instructor. I was quite enchanted. I stumbled and messed up, of course, but the wheel made sense to me. A lot of sense. It had a nice inertia and communication style. Whatever it was, two different people later told me they'd looked over from the adjacent dance trapeze class and thought I looked really comfortable. That fascinates me, that two people would choose the same word.
A 3.5 hour lunch break followed, with delicious salad and about two hours of reading 1Q84, which I'd started on the airplane on Friday and am really enjoying. Then flexibility (make that contortion) class with Intense Pixie, who knows many things about hips. She used me for demos, I got my frog stretch down really low (for me), and I did a back kickover at the end. Didn't pull anything, which is always a high priority in such endeavors.
Toward the end of class I looked up and there was
norwoodbridge sitting in the hall! When it ended I bounced out to smooch him. We had dinner with melebeth and coraline on the waterfront, and then we were off to see nevers in performance with her ensemble.As for that, I liked the show a lot -- the teasing lead-up to the excellent duo trap act, the highlighting of all the performers' injuries (real as far as I could tell), the handbalancing act with candles at the base of the canes. I was wondering how it went from the performers' point of view... maybe I'll get to find out. :-) I kind of didn't like the three-high -- I never do anymore, in performances -- but loved the transgender dance trapeze act, and the comedy guy (there's always a comedy guy) was not too over the top and was also a competent acro base.
We sneaked out quickly to get back to the hotel and into its hot tub. Then a soak or two later, I hopped over to
norwoodbridge's room for the night, and he helped me out with a certain kind of tension that had been plaguing me. We curled up, he zonked and, still on West Coast time a little bit, I read a few more pages of 1Q84 before happily closing my eyes.
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Date: 2015-04-20 01:38 am (UTC)