Modern dance and talking about "Crepuscular Rays" in public

I think I'm in need of more sleep. I mean, I've been sleep deprived since 9th grade when I started seminary, but now that I'm in college, it's getting ridiculous. blech. So I was sitting in my Physics 137: Athmosphere and Weather class the other day(truly, an awe-inspiring subject. Incidentaly My roomate asks for weather reports now, so I give them in my best weatherman voice and gesture emphatically at my computer screen that's displaying the National Weather Service website. crazy.) So I was sitting in my physics class, and the lecture turned to "Crepuscular Rays," which is a fancy way of saying "those nifty shafts of light that you see on a cloudy day." My first thought was "wait a second, is that a Legitimate 'Optial Weather Phenomenon'?" Well, as it turns out, yes, "Crepuscular Rays" are legitimate "Optical Weather Phenomena" along with "rainbows" and "sundogs" (I like sundogs for some reason). But what really makes me shake my head at meterology is the "Optical Weather Phenomenon" called Heiligenshein. Heiligenshein is basically the halo thing that you can see around your shadow's head on grassy-dewey surfaces in the sunlight. I didn't know that this was a legitimate "Optical Weather Phenomenon," but it is. I've personally never seen one, but then again, I've never looked.

So, speaking of modern dance.

On this last Thursday, I got to go to BYU's Dancer's Company's Dance in Concert concert (I'm sure that my English teacher would faint if she saw that sentence). Lemme tell ya, it was INCREDIBLE! It was truly inspiring to watch and that means a lot coming from me, a former Modern-Dance-Mocker. It seemed to me (and kind of still does) that modern dance was created by someone who did it as kind of a joke, but then it caught on, so they had to make up rules to justify the truly randomness of some things. I don't know, I think that someday, we'll meet the creator of modern dance and they'll be like "HA! you thought those were REAL rules!" But in spite of these doubts going into this performance, I was truly blown away. In fact, I think I wasn to try my hand at it someday (I can almost feel my dad cringe. This performance had it all; there was humor, action, romance, and random props. In fact, it was the props that really got me thinking seriously about modern dance. Think about the possibilites for props! As I've been contemplating the performance this weekend, I've thought of a TON of things that could be used. Just to name a few, You could use a huge popcorn maker and have popcorn all over the stage, or like a huge unexplained fish filled with pudding on stage right that would either explode at intermission and spray everyone with pudding or move to stage left, or you could have a life-sized model of someone made out of lettuce, or the dancers could use waterbottles and artfully spray everyone. It boggles my mind to even think about it.

The possibilites are truly endless.


oh, and this guy definiately should do some sort of dance. Heck maybe he could do modern. He'd need props though. Maybe a lettuce statue of someone int he background.