Tonight my friend Bec and I went to the Old Fitzroy, which I hadn't been to since playing trivia with The Fanny Pack (which doesn't sound so bad in American English, but is downright risque in Australia) ages ago. It was really cool -- the upstairs had been transformed into a performance space for microperformances -- lots of little shows happening tucked away in various corners. We tried to describe the theme and found it a bit tricky -- kind of magical, storybooklike, foresty, hippie, Harry Potter-esque, Renaissance-ish, trippy, melodramatic, creative, dimly lit and Hobbit-y, or some combination thereof. Maybe the pictures will help you work it out.
We saw three performances -- one of a girl with balloons ("take a balloon and tie it anywhere on the sleeping girl to begin the performance" the sign said -- and when you did, she danced and ended the performance by giving away the balloons used), another of a really amazing magician and a third of a girl dancing over a table (really rather odd). There might have been a thing or two we missed as well. It was all very edgy and avant garde and made us feel ten times cooler just for going.
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And, interestingly, they let you take photos during the performances, too? Very risque.
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