Today is the last day of the Festival Internacional Cervantino which means that next week the crazy crowds of young people from all over mexico will have headed home. The tents will be cleared out from the park and we will be left in the city with hopefully shorter lines for museums and more available tables at the popular restaurants. It has been really incredible to be here for the festival and I truly recommend that you try and make it here some year. The highlight of the festival was definately our Thursday night show. We went to see Pilobolus, a US based modern dance group, and they were breath taking. The group is known for its incredible lifts and human sculptures. They do things with their bodies that astound, without ever requiring contorsionist like flexibility or abnormal joint structures. At intermission Michael turned to me and said, "so its like the most awsome trust game ever." He is right, the amount of trust and harmony between the dancers required by the choreography is hard to undervalue. Many of the dances were done with very little clothes and the coreography strips away pretenses and taboos and the creations that result and the novel combinations that are available to the dancers because of this is truly incredible. Lucky for you all they are an American group so keep your eye peeled, it isn't something you would want to miss if they come through your city.
Friday night we traveled to nearby Leòn, a city that had very little to recommend it. It is known especially for its leather shoes but we were told to wait until Chihuahah for the boots we are both hoping to find before getting back. We went to see a precusion group called Tambuco, which was very different from what we were expecting but still very interesting. They did Bach using percusion and had one piece that was done all with their bodies.
On Saturday, yesterday, we went to see La Hija de Rapucchini, a play by Octavio Paz. We were really glad that we had bought the play and read it before hand. It really helped understand the play. Actually seeing the play acted helpped me understand what I had read just as much as well. The play was really well stagged with gorgeous costumes and a very innovative set. Tonight the final show, a band called Cafe Tacuba will be playing but we are not yet sure that we are going to have the energy to fight the crowds for one of the free seats since all the tickets have sold out.
So now on to the hokey. This morning we went up to the Casa De Las Leyendas which is a museum of sorts that brings to life the various legends about the city of Guanjuato through the means of mechanized scenes. These included little moving gophers that dug mines for silver, a man who visted hell, and the legend of the student to died of a heart attack visiting the cemetary and getting his cape caught on a tomb. It included a full on replica of the Callejon del Beso, a very narrow alleyway were a rich girl was said to have fallen in love with a poor miner. When her father forbid the relationship the miner bought the house across the alley whose balcony nearly touched that of the girl's family. The father ended up killing the daughter in a fit of rage upon discovering the couple kissing from the balcony of the house. Overall it was pretty fantastically hokey.
On another note we have decided to cut our stay here in Guanajuato short by one week on account of not really loving the school we are taking classes back. This actually works out really well interms of getting home with a little less of a rush to get everything done before I start work on December 1st. We will be in LA probably from around Nov 17th to the 23rd for those of you out in LA. From there we will pick up Ella and Pepper who have been living with my friend Liz and her family and head home to Tucson to get an apartment and get started with real life, which we are looking forward to as well.
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