17th March 2007: Take Flight, contemporary ballet production by Balletbase. Emily dragged me for this. Yes, I came to See Emily Play!

Superb choreography! Spectacular lighting! Before the show they were dancing along to a Dream Theater song. I was excited (though it didn’t play in the show.)

This effect was done with an array of lights from both left and right of the stage.

Rebirth. Drama.

The performances were notably symmetrical and patternistic, making my hits more than misses.

Seeing this I was reminded of a certain Funky Socker.

I swapped mostly between the Minolta 50mm F1.4 and Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan lens.

…and shot mostly in Shutter Priority mode. Hooray for bright lights!

MMM hot chick smack center.

Guest performances by Tracy Vanderlinden and Heather Rodocker.

(Emily shot this.)

Bilqis Hijjas, the director, and 24 dancers.

Yay I got to go backstage!

Briefing.

Stand on your hands with a little help from your friends.

The stage lamps used; each stand had four; two side by side (in the picture) and one above and one below.

Peeling tape time. Like waxing.

Less than half of the dancers left.

There’s an afterparty?

Enough of that, Emily says. Let’s get out of here!

Where? The majestic photogenic KL Performing Arts Center. Whoa what’s that in the distance?

The 210mm end of the beercan lens reveals a chess game.

Emily shot this.

Chicks!

Beercan shooting from an apartment roof somewhere in KL.