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i had an awesome weekend. skied at stevens pass on saturday until 9 pm (got started late tho -- they have lights) with a few inches of powder falling during the day. on sunday i saw the national acrobats of taiwan, and they were amazingly amazing . beyond my grasp of adjectives in any case. they are definitely worth seeing if they're in your area. from my xanga:
Toshi wrote on Xanga said:
i saw the national acrobats of taiwan today. they played at benaroya hall, typically the venue for the seattle symphony. $10 rush tix for students...
anyway, they were AMAZINGLY good. a few of the acts just blew my mind.
the most spectacular: a guy did a series of handstands on a chair. the thing was that this chair was on a stack of about 10 (no joke) other chairs, of which the bottom chair rested its four legs on four wine bottles which rested itself on a platform. the guy was easily 2/3 of the way to the ceiling at the pinnacle of the stunt (he kept on building the stack one by one from the top, with the chairs being handed to him by assistants with a long pole and hook deal. wow. his act alone had the audience both mesmerized and fearing for his life, and garnered a standing ovation.
i didn't find any pictures in a quick googling that capture the act, but this video is decent. you need quicktime 6+ to view it. the video is here.
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