Tragedy

Those of you who know me well know that I love modern dance. As a spectator, it's probably my favorite art form. So imagine my excitement when I learned that the Martha Graham Dance Company was coming to little old South Bend! Martha Graham is one of the founders of the modern dance style, and her company is supposed to be one of the premiere groups in the country! She's also ranked by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the century! I convinced Mike to go with me (he's such a good sport), and bought the tickets weeks in advance - we were close to center in the eigth row! We were shopping that afternoon, and then went for dinner before the show. When we showed up at the Morris Center the first thing we noticed was the long line of girls at the concession stand. An amazing number of young girls - probably all aspiring dancers!
We went in, and found it a little odd that no one seemed too interested in taking our tickets, but remembering the popularity of the last modern dance concert that came to town didn't think anything of it. The show started about ten minutes late, so we had time to read the program and I was so excited that they were starting the show with some of Martha's famous solos, including Lamentation, which is pictured above. But when the curtain went up, it quickly became apparent that they were starting with the second half of the show. Weird.
Oh, agony! When they finished their dance, they did their bow, and it was obviously an end-of-performance bow, not a pre-intermission bow. It was only at this point that we realized...

Indiana and Chicago are not in the same time zone. Not this time of year, and now forevermore. Drat the time change!! We missed the first half of the performance :-( I was devastated - I think I could have done my own rendition of Lamentation! Maybe I did. . . Only Mike will ever know!!