Look, Ma, I’m in pictures!
I don’t have much more to wrap up the SEAF performance review. The Sinner Saint Burlesque group, including Dane (who was also the MC for the auction, and hosts his own Seattle show and podcast) did a version of "Mein Herr" from Cabaret that was spirited and fun– I have to wonder if the troupe, so used to working the audience in a more direct and bawdy way, had difficulty with the kind of detached haughty disregard required to do that number right. As far as precision dancing went, though, they were right on, and I think they did a great job in increasing the respect that "fine arts" types have for that kind of performing.
(I once knew a ballerina, a very talented woman, who turned her nose up at burlesque, cabaret, Middle Eastern, striptease, and other forms of "sensual" dance as not being "real dance" because they were designed to titillate and therefore could not be considered "art". I tried, in vain, to get her to look up the actual history of Ballet, to see where the roots really came from, but she couldn’t be bothered. Personally, I think in 200 years we’re going to have American LapDance Theatre featured in the Kennedy Center (perhaps renamed the Jenna Jameson center by then?) when people realize just how hard that kind of dance is.)
The Seattle Intelligencer has posted two articles about SEAF, one about the show in general and one specifically targeted towards the controversy of censorship caused by the difficulties they had in printing the programs. There is also a photo gallery (view at your own risk). However, I will link to one particular picture – because in it, at the top of the long red stairs the dancers are facing, there is a vague shape of a man in a gold-colored top holding a program.
I think I’m also in my brown suitcoat and black jeans in this VR, but I can’t be sure.
That’s me, watching the dance. Really. See? I’m famous! Quit looking at the pretty ladies. I mean, really, come on, this is ART.
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