Day Dream

Last night, CANOPY STUDIO'S advanced classes had their student recital called "DAY DREAM". Missy performed with her fabrics class in a piece called "Four Morpheus", set to music from the soundtrack to The Matrix. These are just a few images and video from last night's show...it's hard to get good photos (for me and my cheap little camera, at least) during a Canopy performance because it's dark, there's lots of action, and flash photography is prohibited. In lieu of photographs, I took video of MIssy's class performance. Maybe I'll go back for Sunday's performance and try to take photos...



Missy peeked from behind the curtain as the performers waited for the audience to sort themselves into whatever seats they could find...



One of the teen classes performed to Guns & Roses' "Welcome To The Jungle"...





One of my favorite "skits" was this one that started off with an "elderly couple" sitting on a park bench. As the kids scamper off the jungle gym, the two slowly make their way to the cube, shed their trench coats, and proceed to perform ariel acrobatics to Willy Wonka's "Pure Imagination"...











Some pieces happen so close to you that if you're sitting in the front row, you're liable to get kicked in the face or worse...





There was this one piece where the performer was on the LYRA while a trio of local musicians performed behind her. I thought this was so quintessentially "ATHENIAN" ...rootsy, soulful, but at the same time, a bit weird because of the juxtaposition of two very different art forms...this is how we do...

CANOPY 8926 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

I only managed one photo of Missy setting up her fabric under the spotlight, but then videotaped their whole performance. The spotlights at the top made it a bit difficult to video, due to some back lighting...but I think you can still get the gist of their performance. As usually, the video doesn't really do the live performance justice. To see them perform live, up super high, WITHOUT A NET, without harnesses (that's cheating, Pink!), doing all these intricate and dangerous acrobatics is really impressive (FaceBookers, if you wanna see the video, you're gonna have to venture onto our blog)...

CANOPY 8927 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

I love Canopy shows because at times it's like sitting in on CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, and other times it's a bit like "WAITING FOR GUFFMAN" (which is a GOOD thing, too!) In the end, everyone lined up to take their big bow as the audience thanked them for a wonderful night of entertainment...