Ab Nazaare Hum Kya Dekhen..

What would be the best way to spend a Saturday night.. Partying.. going to the Royals game? Alas.. not one of these proved a lucrative enough cause .. and so I browsed and browsed until I came across this "free event" .. and no they were not giving away free food.. Hmm not that cheap.. It was a dance and story performance by a popular troupe choreographed by Doug Varone, who apparently has 38,700 Google search results.. hmm I thought.. might actually prove a good diversion from the mundane bowling and pooling.. and drinking and 'merrying'..not that I do all of that.. but still.. a dance performance seemed far more interesting... And so I call up.. and confirmed my spot in the crowd.. And surprise! got the front row seats.. well not quite..it was in the third from the stage.. but hey.. who's complaining.. as long as I get to see the performance..you know how it is these days with free events can't ensure anything!

And so i spent an hour dressing up.. for all I am worth.. and went to the center.. to treat my eyes to the "Dense Terrain" the latest of their dances. The hall is house full... except for the 7 seven seats beside me. Hmm.. conspiracy theory.. the universe always conspires to take away all good looking guys away from me.. now a days it seems to be conspiring to take away even people sitting beside me :) Oh well that's a different route..

And so it started.. the performance.. a video projected up on the milky white screen.. and lights dimmed out.. and close up image of the mouth of a bearded guy appeared on the screen muttering some mumbo jumbo.. hmm I thought..not a very sightly scene.. but I waited.. with baited breath.. for something to happen.. but nothing did and for a whole 3 minutes that frame was nearly still.. except for the mutterings.. which were quite meaningless.. and I had the strange feeling that its gonna be a loooong free event!

The performers did eventually come.. and voila.. they crawled on the floor like babies.. they jumped up and down.. rather unsymmetrical and sat on chairs.. I picked my brain as much as I could.. to see if I could make any sense.. and then the saga went on and on.. with more people crawling jumping sitting and the in the background the image changing.. the bearded man apparently grew tired of just muttering so he started scribbling.. on walls.. and yes again meaningless stuff.. to the more intellectual people those scribbling may have looked like hmm lets say wavelets.. but to me they were nothing more than black marks on a good nice wall.. and then the artists left the stage..Perplexed.. I sat there.. and then the the performers arranged the chairs as they would be in a classroom.. Ah.. I thought, now finally I see a formation.. a symmetry... some things up.. and what do I see.. well nothing! the person in the video is now lecturing the people sitting on the stage.. I think to to myself.. there's got to be something I am missing in this.. then they all leave the stage except fr two male artists.. and they performed what I would call the jumping homo jelly beans! Arghh.. I was already getting frustrated.. when these two went away and and another two came in.. this time. a woman and a man.. and well they did the same things! hmm.. I thought.. can't they get any more creative? Whats the point?
They went off.. and then came walls! wow! that was something! artists pushed the "walls on wheels" to the center of the stage.. and well there is the bearded guy..."Surprisee!" well not really.. but still he was there.. and well from what I saw coming for the next 15 minutes.. it looked like either he dropped one of his lenses and was searching.. or had completely lost his marbles! And I was losing my patience..

And after that the show ended.. and all clapped..hmm .. what was this? it was not even a dance for Pete's sake! a story my foot! there was none.. what's the point..as these were reeling in my mind..a voice came from behind me.. "There got to be an explanation.. I just don't know what and where" it was an elderly gentleman.."I know!" I exclaimed.. happy that some one else at least thinks like me! Hmm I thought.. a crazed out middle school teacher with students perhaps I thought and I voiced my opinion.. the old gentleman agreed! and I walked out.. thinking.. wow! that was some performance.. with no ballet.. not much symmetry.. no great costumes..(it was there final dance rehearsal before there went out to ticket buying public.. that's why it was free)...no story.. even if there was, there was no point..in telling it.... Rahul of DTPH had better ideas even if it was a sickly sweet love story! overall it was a big flop show! and while I was trying to come out of the room.. a guy beside me said "you know I could have gone to the royals game.. see what you've done.. now I am depressed!" to his wife.. hmm I thought.. we'll looks like I am doing better than that! Hats off to creativity!!! But I have seen and been in better ones!