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Well, I had a most amazing experience last night, and I thought I'd use it as an opportunity to get this blog thing rolling... 

I attended the latest PND Emergency festival, it was inspiring! I watched all three programs in one evening- quite epic, but a delight from start to finish. As I was watching, I had a series of impressions, and, rather than simply describing each performance, which could get tedious (the performances were not, but my descriptions might be), I figured I would share my impressions...

Laugh in Pathos as life weaves through

The dance of the family has to be seen to be believed

Jangly jazz of string and body

In movement and rest
Staccato breath and body
It moves me to awe

We are all ageless when we dance barefoot

Confidently awkward, humor in compassion, an astoundingly simple magic

Wordless prose spoken with body the power lies behind the cycles of loss and comfort

Savage tribal modernity caught in the headlights of the electric drum

Presenting the shadow play emerging from the interplay in a crowd of three

Fragile flesh flowers we stand proudly when we see it

Obligatory floor show... MTV is in the house?

Then the "C" program- Rock on? No wait, earlier in the day I was watching tv and saw an aging "rock star" that was my idol when I was 9, but now he was just regurgitating all the worst misogynistic rock clichés, and I said to myself, rock and roll has become a sad parody of itself. But here in the "C" program, I was reminded that there has been an (r)evolution, some rock has claimed it's feminine side, has realized that to be vulnerable is to show infinitely more strength than to hide behind macho posturing... Bravo!

To the performers and artists, excelent work, and I apologize in advance if I mangled or misinterpreted your work, my intension here is to say, you inspired me!

And a note on the ordering, I presented them here in order ABC, although I witnessed them as BAC, but I think it works :-)