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[Alan Anzalone]

mmmmm, pole dancers at Zellerbach





On Jan 30, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Damon Smith wrote:

> I went on the last night of the tapefest, the Stockhausen piece was
> great, the house was packed and even the hipster kids were quiet for
> the most part. It was an incredible experience.
> The night before I got tickets to Trisha Brown at Zelerbach. The first
> two pieces were great, the first had holograms with the dancers and
> music by electric upright bassist/composer Curtis Bahn who Played at
> Mills last year. The second had Flute music by Salvatore Scarrino  
> which
> was amazing.
> The last piece was one of the worst performances I have ever seen, the
> music was terrible, by Laurie Anderson, and the "set" was two remote
> controlled poles that a dancer ended up talking to at the end in a Mr.
> Rogers Neighborhood sort of way.  It was just terrible.
>
> Damon
>
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