On Tuesday, Joshua, Kevin, and I went to Joyce Theater to see a dance because we had enjoyed watching Fall for Dance. Thus, we were looking forward to watching this dance performance.

The building was similar to BAM Harvey Theater because the walls were old and made of bricks. It was around for a while, so the outer walls remained unchanged, but inside everything was renewed/replaced.

Outside it was cold and everyone had a lot of clothes on, while during the performers in the theater had very little clothing. In the first dance, the men were basically only wearing matching underwear and the women wore one piece bathing suits. The dancers performed ballet usually in pairs and sometimes in larger groups with about 20 performers on stage at the same time. They were all synchronized and switched partners often. In their groups, the dancers moved together and came really close to one another (something I would not do if people had barely any clothes on). They relied on one another for support and balance. Something common was a woman raping herself loosely around a man, while he spun around at the proper speed to make sure she did not fall.

Part of the music was recorded and some of it was live. I noticed that the two violin players that performed live at the ballet made the sounds of their violins compliment one another. If I did not watch both of the people playing the instruments, I would not have known that there were two violin players. Just like the dancers, they made their music (instead of dance) combine to make a single, proper functioning system. The recorded music played at the ballet would normally make me want to dance slowly, but the dancers were dancing really quickly to the retarded rhythm.

One thing that I remember well from the performance was that a dancer fell when he was running on the stage to his position. He had gotten back up in the blink of an eye and continued performing. This blunder demonstrates that people always make mistakes, which cannot be avoided even in a synchronized, well-performed ballet. Moreover, I was never expecting anyone to slip in a professional performance, so I guess that anything can happen.