Thursday, June 16, 2005
This evening, Tamarih and I went to a performance called Ancient Culture or something featuring a group called Torotoro. It was Tamarih's first experience of a Maori cultural performance and our first view of an event as part of the Montreal Fringe Festival.
It was pretty intense, and quite impressive with just two guys dancing around in thongs (or not) and loin(ish) cloths. Most of the maori/polynesian performances I've seen in New Zealand were fairly large affairs with 20 or so dudes thumping, screaming, showing the white of their eyes and sticking their tongues out. I know that there are maori words for each of these gestures which give a little more dignity to the event than I can express in English, but I'm more Canadian now than New Zealand I guess. (I can't say that without thinking of Obi Wan Kenobi talking to Luke in the 'Return of the Jedi' when he describes Anakin Skywalker as "... more machine now, than man. Twisted, and evil.'')
Tamarih is very happy tonight. A meeting with her client for her masters went very well. This means that there is only a couple of meetings to go before the intervention. I'm not entirely certain what this means, but it means that she starts writing her 50 page (plus appendices) thesis soon, and then her masters will be done! Yaay. I get her back.
It was pretty intense, and quite impressive with just two guys dancing around in thongs (or not) and loin(ish) cloths. Most of the maori/polynesian performances I've seen in New Zealand were fairly large affairs with 20 or so dudes thumping, screaming, showing the white of their eyes and sticking their tongues out. I know that there are maori words for each of these gestures which give a little more dignity to the event than I can express in English, but I'm more Canadian now than New Zealand I guess. (I can't say that without thinking of Obi Wan Kenobi talking to Luke in the 'Return of the Jedi' when he describes Anakin Skywalker as "... more machine now, than man. Twisted, and evil.'')
Tamarih is very happy tonight. A meeting with her client for her masters went very well. This means that there is only a couple of meetings to go before the intervention. I'm not entirely certain what this means, but it means that she starts writing her 50 page (plus appendices) thesis soon, and then her masters will be done! Yaay. I get her back.
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