Yesterday I saw this item in the Review-Journal about a new free show at the Palazzo. It sounded intriguing. Besides, I had a two-for-one coupon for one of their restaurants, and a double-your-bet free play coupon for a table game. (My traveling companion chose black for me on a roulette wheel. It came up red. $25 gone. But the upside is I would have won $75, so on an essentially 50:50 bet it was definitely +EV.)
We caught the 4:30 show. I took too many pictures to upload them here, but you can see them in a Flickr set here.
Basically, three young women dressed and made up as classical statues come down the escalator, take their places one by one in the pool area in front of the waterfall, and strike various poses while classical music plays. They also have tubes hooked up under their outfits so that water can come out of their fingers and heads. Yeah, it sounds goofy, but it's kind of cool. When they're done, they come out and stand in front. That's when the assistants start hawking photos. Of course, you can take all the pictures you want (and I didn't even see anybody get backroomed for it!), but if you want to get in the picture with the statues, you have to pay and have their photographer take the shot. They they glide off to the up escalator and fly away, with a mop guy behind them cleaning up the water so nobody slips and falls and sues the hotel.
About the time the statues are making their exit, two young women on long stilts and hand crutches, dressed as vines, are making their way in. I thought this was the more interesting part of the show. They display real athleticism as they move around, but a nice aesthetic/artistic sense at the same time, which is not an easy combination. After making their way through the crowd (with considerable daring--they brush right past people, seemingly unafraid of being knocked off their stilts), they take up positions against a wall and move through various motions and poses. It's all quite cool.
I took these video clips with my new cell phone camera. The resolution is low (sorry), but you can at least get a good sense of what's going on.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Interesting show at the Palazzo
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I saw those walking topiaries in the area between the Venetian and Palazzo and had NO IDEA what to make of them. God help the person in an altered state of mind who encounters them!
One of the permanent attractions at Animal Kingdom in DisneyWorld is DiVine, who spends her time on the tree-lined walkways. She'll stand "connected" to the trees in silence in the path of the kids and parents, unnoticed in all the mayhem, and just gracefully make her way around the park. Same exact "outfit". Like you said, sounds kind of stupid, but was really interesting to watch.
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