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Natasha is the sis in law of a good friend of mine. She is also a dancer, and not so long ago started her own troop (all female, which I hadn't known in advance), doing the choreography (and dancing) (she and her spouse are also techy types, and good conversationalists). This past Friday night, I was invited to attend a show, at Fort Mason's Cowell Theater (very nice place). I was pretty pleased; very fun to get to see something I'd been hearing about for several years now.

The show was really good! The modern dance show was overall nicely light-hearted. It evoked a lot of different moods and emotions. There were perhaps two pieces that I think went a little too long... ymmv. Mostly, I was tickled and impressed. One piece involved three 'bookworms' in a bookcase, never touching the ground... another had sea anenome type tubes among the players... others had a classical feel... Natasha has a thing for tie-dye; many of the outfits looked like dancing jammies! But to say you'd have smatterings of tie-dye and surf music would really tell you almost nothing about the show. Go see 'em if you like dance at all. :-)

Accompanying, and doing a set of their own, was the California Guitar Trio, three guys who live from here to Idaho to Tokyo, and who were really good! Their sound was harpsichord and surf and hard guitar, and unnameable (to me, not educated enough obviously) modern dance stuff... Apparently they are usually acoustic, but were plugged in for this entire event. I will definitely seek their music out; it was dense and different and energetic.