There’s a brand new dance, but I dont know its name.
The Pirate was walking in a show last week and invited me to come along. It was an interesting event, held at Bohemian National Hall, which is also home to the Czech Consulate. The show featured predominantly Czech designers.
The event was largely attended by a Czech audience, but there were plenty of Americans there and an open bar as well, so when the festivities commenced with an unamplified opera singer performing three songs (which would have been met with full attention and silence in Europe) it came as kind of no surprise that the room could-not-shut-the-fuck-up. Cowering beneath the roar of a drunken crowd, I felt kinda bad for these two guys but you know, the show must go on…
Two ballet dancers were featured, and while they were pretty fabulous, there was definitley some bit of confusion as to wether or not their attire was a featured part of the program or not…
Some of these designs are actually quite beautiful:
The show concluded with one of the designers walking up on stage in a space suit (a fake one). I suppose this was engineered to be the show stopping big deal. Perhaps Im just really jaded from working in the movies all these years, but this seems like something that Spike Jonze should have been doing and it just seemed oddly out of place at this event. Regardless, it was a fun night with a good look at some incredible designs and a noteworthy experience stepping off a NYC street and into the heart of a buzz of positive Slovak energy.
