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An incredible evening
Dec. 15th, 2017 10:34 pmI was privileged to see Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal's Dance Me: Music by Leonard Cohen on its Toronto premiere. I admittedly do not know much about dance, but I am game to see anything involving Leonard Cohen, and it was transcendent. Just...every single artistic choice was perfect and most were unexpected. Cohen himself had some creative control before his death, and the sense I had from the director was that it was a thing that wouldn't have been done if it couldn't be done brilliantly. And it was done brilliantly.
Ottawa peeps, it is headed your way next. It sounds like an international tour is in the works, so if this comes to your city, absolutely go see it.
On a related note, I am seeking context, backstory, and/or theories about the older gentleman in the audience who wore a full-on colourful wizard's outfit to the performance. He was extremely polite and took off his pointy hat during the show, so accordingly I was too polite to ask him about his sartorial choices. My current theory is that he came straight from work—after all, I ended up riding the TTC and going to a doctor's appointment in a shark onesie for similar reasons—but I would like to believe that he is, in fact, a real wizard and decided the best way to avoid his secret being revealed was to dress like a wizard, because no one would ever suspect him of being capable of real magic.
Ottawa peeps, it is headed your way next. It sounds like an international tour is in the works, so if this comes to your city, absolutely go see it.
On a related note, I am seeking context, backstory, and/or theories about the older gentleman in the audience who wore a full-on colourful wizard's outfit to the performance. He was extremely polite and took off his pointy hat during the show, so accordingly I was too polite to ask him about his sartorial choices. My current theory is that he came straight from work—after all, I ended up riding the TTC and going to a doctor's appointment in a shark onesie for similar reasons—but I would like to believe that he is, in fact, a real wizard and decided the best way to avoid his secret being revealed was to dress like a wizard, because no one would ever suspect him of being capable of real magic.
