Bizarre Barre
Ok, this is interesting and sort of bizarre: http://www.purebarre.com/. A barre class as workout…I guess I’m not surprised (though it ain’t cheap, at $24/class). But I’m still waiting for contact improv to go mainstream! I’m serious, when Madonna and Cameron Diaz discover the physical–and spiritual, of course–workout behind contact, they’ll be all over it! And that’ll be then end of it as some crazy unknown activity. Until then, though, and until (or if) modern dance becomes more mainstream, I think I’ll fucking scream if one more average person asks me about “interpretive dance” with a smirk. How the hell did that concept get out there so widely?