First Ave. on Saturday nights is always bumpin' with the "House"/Techno sound. By around midnight it starts to get pretty packed and the beat pulses right through you.
:)
Well, this past Saturday night my friends and I decided to get some of that good sound pounding into our brains after seeing a show at Teatro del Pueblo produced and acted by a Colombian group.
To go off on this tangent about Teatro del Pueblo, the show was quite powerful and amazing, although also a bit confusing. Never before have I seen an air-bound, blindfolded woman use bungee-type cords to hold herself up and move to and from one cord to another... the whole time not even being able to see the ground that lays many feet below her...
She crafted her movements to express persecution and ultimately the plights that many immigrants experience. She then later scaled the side wall using to of those bungee cords--just not blindfolded this time.
The whole show was in Spanish. Its first half spoke about crossing the border, while its second half told a story, through dance, about sexual violence against children.
Although the abstractness of the production was a bit confusing at times, the strong mission of the actors was purveyed without a doubt.
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