During my stint working for the Atlanta Ballet, I would get a wild hair idea ("Lets have the whole battle scene rats from the Nutcracker flood Atlantic Station!" "We can put Dracula and the un-dead on MARTA!")
Of course these suggestions were completely out of place, seeing how Lauri herself had attempted to coolify the ballet as well.
We did manage to get one dancer and myself dressed as rats running through lil 5 points, but not quite the spectacle I imagined.
So to see her pull off an idea parallel to mine was like magic.
The dancers whirled themselves beautifully through a cultureless devoid such a Lenox mall and brought a glimmer of what Atlanta public arts could be for people who were lucky enough to be shopping.
Since they were not going into the stores, the mall itself seemed more like a hilarious backdrop. In a recognition that these two worlds have tried so very hard to be separate from each other, one using the other in that way was beyond brilliance.
You could hear people getting muffled in an attempt to shop without interruption, consumers so insecure with themselves they feel the need to try to verbally tear down something that might cause a question to their everyday reality.
For most, however, it was hypnotic. The dancers were so possessed in their instinctual movements (known as channeling the gaga) it's almost contagious.
and now some photos......
