On Sunday, October 12th, a bunch of us went to go and see the Arpino dance show in the Joyce theatre. While heading to the show I had my low expectations and was not excited to go really since I had little interest in things like these. I am never interested in shows of any sort like musicals, theatre, etc. But this was a dance show so even with my prior premonitions I still had no clue what to really expect from this. Some people travelled on their own to the theatre but I went with majority of us on the ferry there so we could all travel together. The public transportation wasn’t that bad as I thought it would be but it was a Sunday so it wasn’t super crowded and complicated. We didn’t really face the rain as much until after the whole show and a little right before hand. Before arriving we walked by this really cool car that had graffiti on which I felt like was art. It was really out there and took a lot of us by surprise when we first saw it. I thought that the concept of the car was really cool and described what NY is.
Arriving there I unfortunately sat directly in the first row which blocked a lot of my view from the stage which sucked since certain parts of the show had props and/or had instances where they used all of the stage and I couldn’t see everything especially when they were far in the back. When the show began I was completely taken away from what I saw. There were 4 different acts total but each act was really amazing (besides the first one I didn’t really like it as much as the other 3). Besides the stage blocking a lot of my view, from what I saw I really liked the show especially some of the music that they were using. My favorite act was the last one since they had 3 mini acts in one and the music choice was really cool. This show really exceeded a lot of my expectations and made me glad that I went overall. This is a picture from the last show that was really cool and what I felt like described the mood of the show. It was fast, shiny, and expressive. It is a blurry image of the beginning part of the show where the dancers where moving their hands a lot before starting to dance.
After the show some of them left with Lisa back on the ferry, others went to go on their separate ways back home or away but a lot of us decided to go out to eat afterwards. We didn’t know where to go at first but we decided that we wanted to go to Dave’s Hot Chicken in Midtown. On our way to Central Park that is where the rain started to hit us and it was hitting hard. A lot of us had umbrellas but even still that wasn’t helping against the rain. I had just used my hood since I knew that my umbrella wasn’t going to do anything in the end. On our tumultuous journey to Dave’s Hot Chicken we finally arrived and got our food (after a long wait) we took our food and went to the McDonalds right next door to eat since they had an upstairs section and a lot of tables.
I enjoyed my food and finished everything since I was starving but others took theirs home. After we ate we figured out how we are getting home. We split up into 2 separate groups with 3 of us going to a bus stop for the SIM4c and the other group went to go to the SIM1c. I couldn’t say for their group, but my group was struggling a lot when heading to our bus stop was a big hassle since this was in the peak of the rainstorm. On our way there the umbrellas was actually useless to use since it was insanely windy and rainy. We kept laughing about how bad the rain was and got lost a little bit since the gps wasn’t working for one of us so I took initiative and brought us to the first bus stop at Central Park to wait for the bus. While on the way we saw a couple other art galleries that looked really cool since it had a lot of figures and other art. It looked really expensive though but the art pieces were cool to see from the outside.
The art was way different from the ones we’d normally analyze it reminded me of designer fashion in a sense. Still seeing all the different art pieces was really cool.
To end the day we got on the bus and had a nice 2 hour bus ride due to the rain causing a lot of traffic in the city but was cool since we were talking to each other the whole time and had fun since the bus wasn’t packed. Overall I had a good time during this trip and cant wait for the other trips we go on for this class. I found it really interesting and learned to be more open to different experiences.
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