Cusco
Good news: my altitude sickness is gone and we are all in the same hotel - the good one.
We went to the theater Saturday morning to continue the technical setup for the show (which is Sunday). The technical crew at the theater Josse, Fidel, Luco, William - are all lots of fun even with the language barrier. Two of the MIT group speak spanish fairly well so we are managing. After the tech setup we all went out for pizza and beer.
In the afternoon we all went to a travel agency and paid for our tickets to Machu Picchu, did a little shopping, went to the market that is very near the theater to buy baskets (we could not transport the props for one of the dance pieces so bought substitutes here).
Later in the hotel lobby we worked on the music for the new piece with the various audio/video software we had. We needed to incorporate some poem readings by one of the dancers Shu-Chen into the music, timing it with video and adjusting the levels of the music so she could be heard. While working we ate our dinner - beef and chicken jerky, nuts and fruit, Twix bars, starbursts, beer and coco tea..
On Sesame Street
there was a cool little cartoon and song about
finding your way back home by noting the
landmarks. I have thought about that a lot as I
go back and forth from hotel to theater. The
above pictures are sight on the way to the
theater up the hill, through the Santa Clara
arch, past the sewing shop to the Kusikay
Theater. On the way there are many people who
approach me with flyers for restaurants,
entertainment, etc. We have started collecting
ones for massages.
In the last picture in front of the theater you
see Dana, dancers Kelly, Miyako, Florian,
Ricardo, then Sara and Richard from MIT, Enrique
the lighting designer from Lima, Susan from MIT,
Luco the sound guy from Cusco
Dana buying baskets at the market and the group
working on sound and eating junk food
Tomorrow, Machu Picchu!