Man after I learned some things about wine (tanins!) I thought I couldn't BE any more cultured. But luckily, thanks to work, I was able to become even more fancy!
Dance:
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| This doesn't seem that hard. |
Right after the vineyard tour, we went to see Short Time, a MaggioDanza dance show and contest at the Teatro Goldoni
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Supposedly there's a secret tunnel from the basement
to Palazzo Pitti so the Medici's wouldn't have to go outside after raging... |
10 choreographers! 10 minutes each! The choreographer deemed the best gets to choreograph a whole show for the dance company next season! I wrote 10 pages on this for a paper for my midterm so that is about all I want to say!
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my favorite dance. so dramatic.
but lets me real, the one set to the sound of teletubbies will probably win.
the weirder art is the more trophies |
I took notes in the dark for the paper I would write later and what I got was illegible notes like:
"no bones dancersers! n
o pants! surprise girl comes froOM
sky! THig
hsS of ssteel. G
rabage bag skirt.
All very helpful in writing my paper.
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| Muscle tone. |
Federika, the star of swan lake got her own dance. Also to wear a skirt made of a garbage bag that was impossible to dance in. Seemed like kind of a waste of her superhuman abilities....but as I may have mentioned, I'm not arty.
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| All she could do in her dance was this... |
I really loved the show though and it was even better than watching dance moms...maybe.
Music:
World Bach fest! A whole lot of stuff about Bach! 48 hours of not stop music even at 3, 4, 5 in the morning! All events free!
I went to one event for 20 minutes...not a good intern...
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| But how pretty is this room! |
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They even had an outdoor movie screen if you headed out-bach
hahahahah...... oh man, I'll never really be refined... |
Opera:
So by sunday night, the weekend before midterms I had already done a lot of work event things. They're obviously optional but not like, conscious optional. But then I had to interview my boss, (which turned out to be truly inspiring; she has had one day off in the past month. A LIFE WITHOUT WEEKENDS?!) and she suggested we do it during the dress rehearsal of the opera Anna Bolena. I was really I agreed! When I got there, everyone was getting ready in their dressing rooms and it was so funny to see them just chatting casually about normal things in full make up.
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"You think we'll be done by 12:15?
Cus I think my car meter's about to be up..." |
I even got to go backstage and look around!
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| Some royal thrones. |
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| An inexplicably large face. |
We took our seats in the audience with just a few other people and waited for the show to start. Part of what was so funny about the show was that it's about the tudor family (british) but an italian opera so all the names are italian.
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Oh right,
the familiar historical story of Anna Bolena,
Giovanna Seymour, and King Enrico VIII. |
Mariella Devia has such an amazing voice and the costumes were really crazy. Unfortunately, I am still not smart enough to appreciate opera. I've seen two now and I just can't get used to how little movement there is on stage. It probably doesn't help that I don't understand the language either, but I feel like the majority of all operas are women in big dresses lying on the floor and getting really upset. Which doesn't seem to be great for them or the dresses, really.
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Opera #1, Tosca.
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| Opera # 2, Anna Bolena. |
But I know that's just me being unmusical and having grown up watching like, cartoons of opera, aka musical theater.
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What could famous and technically demanding operas possibly have on, like,
Hairspray or Legally Blonde?
Only everything probably. |
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If "Anna Bolena" was anything like her counterpart Anne Boleyn,
Things weren't looking great even before this enormous dagger came out of the sky. |
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| An inadvertently ironic costume display. |
So much art. So little studying for midterms. Luckily the trendiest school in the world was keepin it cool test-wise, so I was glad I became so smart at the arts during the weekendz
