Saturday, October 13, 2007

Tomorrow night I'll be attending Kansas City's second WaterFire exhibition a block from my apartment. I took in the previous show and found it both agreeably subtle and theatric, the somber spectacle of water-borne pyres skillfully juxtaposed with ambient music and flame-breathing sidewalk performers. For Kansas Citians familiar with the glorified sewer that is Brush Creek, WaterFire's success seems at best unlikely; surprisingly, the September event managed to briefly transform the "riverwalk" into an open-air cathedral.

9 comments:

e said...

Looks alchemical – the marriage of fire and water…enjoy, and send us dispatches from the mixing of the fundamental elements!

Mac said...

You got it!

e said...

Kansas City continues to amaze...the arts seem to flourish there.

Mac said...

Kansas City isn't a bad town; it's small but surprisingly sophisticated for the Midwest. I think a lot of the problem is that people naturally mistake it with Kansas City, Kansas, which isn't even a city as far as I'm concerned.

e said...

Guilty!

Anonymous said...

Was this KC/MISS. event cancelled due to excessive rain? See site for updates, I guess.

Mac said...

WaterFire canceled due to weather. Damnit!

e said...

Water and Fire cancelled due to weather...you could not make that headline up in a room of National Enquirer reporters!

Mac said...

Water and Fire cancelled due to weather

It sounds almost apocalyptic!