I tried not to go too nuts taking pictures, really. This is less than
half of what I shot, and all of what's here needed extensive fixup to
compensate for weird light levels and greenish color casts, not to mention
blurring from people moving or wrong autofocus. The dojo really needs
some better stage lighting! There's only so much that can be rescued in
these situations...
Click each small picture for its larger version; use your browser's "back" control to navigate. For easy bulk-downloading, here is a linear list of the big pictures. |
Mark orienting everyone on how the show will run |
Shows of hands: each group, and how many people know Shin'en? |
Mark gets everyone in a big circle, thunderous levels of kiai happen ... |
We have a refreshingly packed house! |
Senryu |
Ryujin |
Boston Matsuri, the Rec Class piece.
Since I'm in this, I couldn't shoot pictures so I left the 'cam running on two-second timelapse and figured I'd get what I'd get. These are smaller as they're effectively still frames from a movie file at a fixed zoom. Changes to the piece were amusingly interleaved with our rehearsals, up to the very end. People contributed photographs of musical notation, kuchishowa, and whatever they could for at-home practice references. Here is what I cooked up in GarageBand on a Mac to try and help -- a representation [in stereo!] of how our entire piece would run, using the synthesized drum-kits in the software. |
Boston Matsuri |
Boston Matsuri end, and then the camera catches me returning to it to stop the movie take |
Raku |
Kashmir preliminaries, where the big surprise from Wesleyan is revealed |
Kashmir |
Shin'en
[Which I declined to try and join in on, as while I've played it in the past I don't quite remember the whole sequence of parts] |
Various presentations, as this is also Mark's farewell show |
Ensemble: Yui |
Taiko After Dark |
The big medley, with a few auxiliary instruments and a voice part |
Medley |
More presentations start, and the members are turned away doing something mysterious... |
after which Mark meets numeous doppelgangers of himself. |
More gifts: Sam Adams, picture mosaics... |
The evening ends with an all-out Kokyo run, with some audience participation |
Mostly-failed ONE group shot, as I didn't get into position soon enough |