Another painful hour of our lives is past. We are thanking God for Paul Taylor next week. Give us some old-fashioned modern choreography with real music. Please! If the economy doesn't do in ADF, then another year of programming like this season will. Good grief. Here is a link to the local paper's review. I hope it isn't that we've become old and jaded as far as modern dance is concerned, but I think we can still trust our judgement and ADF has just not been up to the par of recently past seasons. Though I think that when I feel the best part of a 65-minute sound track is the 10 minutes or so of listening to the computer-generated voice of the National Weather Service reading the current conditions and short-term forecast, that it is a negative reflection on the artists and not on my judgement! As Clay said as soon as we got outside, I think I really prefer an evening of rhythmic motion... I am really looking forward to Paul Taylor. Amen!
This evening for the first time this season, we took my car. The weather is still hot, but it wasn't unpleasantly humid and there were no thunderstorms for the first evening in a while. So, we aired out the SLK with the top down. When we first left DPAC, we couldn't see the moon. We didn't see it until we exited I-40 for Wade Avenue. And then, what a moon! It was a low-hanging, huge orange ball! The man was clearly visible. It was an impressive lunar display! So, I guess we aren't too jaded to appreciate an impressive show yet.
We repeated our first and best meal out in Durham at Rue Cler. But, this time with the added bonus of free desert with entree upon presentation of a current ADF ticket. That was a nice bonus. But, here is a warning, they fill up fast upon their 5:30pm opening and without reservations once the 2 tall 2-tops and bar seating is filled, people were turned away! We have not seen that kind of full house business in a restaurant during ADF in a number of years. It may just be a Rue Cler thing, because we haven't seen it at any other places this season. Just a heads up.
Well, one more week of ADF and then we have another Bob Garner Road Trip coming up in September...
Little Bob hits the road
Little Bob hits the road
