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.
And, interestingly, they let you take photos during the performances, too? Very risque.
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