when you get up to the city, you better have some cash
In a couple of days we will be performing at the Movement Research Festival in New York, New York (the customs guy hassled Jacob about putting the city *and* the state on his visa waiver form… important stuff). US customs take two finger prints (left and right index) and a photo of you whenever you enter the the country. Lots of unpacking and repacking carry-on luggage being patted down and not being allowed to take more than 100ml of any fluid, gel or other liquid on board (isn’t a fluid a liquid?). This also meant not taking an empty water bottle to fill up on the plane. No problems anywhere though really, just time consuming and a little boring to go through. Also, when you look at it objectively, totally ineffective for anyone who’s determined. All the extra security seems mostly just to make people feel like something is being done.
Anyway, the festival is over three days Fri 8th, Sat 10th and Sun 11th of December, and features mostly US dance artists including Miguel Guiterrez, Daniel Lepkoff, Polly Motley, Chris Aiken, Paige Martin and Marc Boivin. Google them to find out more – you can also check the program at movementresearch.org
Circus Oz are in town while we’re there and we hoping to hook up with some of them to say hi. May even get to see the show if we’re lucky and can fit it in.
After a couple of days in Toronto’s -8 degrees temperature we’re looking forward to the balmy 6 degrees in New York.