{"id":23035,"date":"2026-10-20T23:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=23035"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:25:37","slug":"daily_4245_-_chambercacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/daily_4245_-_chambercacti\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4245 &#8211; Chamber\/Cacti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4245_cacti.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A ballet evening at the Royal Opera. <\/p>\n<p>Medhi Walerski&#8217;s <i>Chamber<\/i>. Wild and primal &#8211; a review I read likened it to <i>The Rite of Spring<\/i>. Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Ekman&#8217;s <i>Cacti<\/i>. This guy has a brain that just doesn&#8217;t stop. Every minute something new is happening, he keeps thinking of new ways to use the body and the scene and the decorations. Captivating and memorable. I will never grow tired of him.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I watch orchestras with a different eye now that Adrian plays percussion. The setup for <i>Chamber<\/i> had almost a quarter of the orchestra pit set aside for percussion instruments, and four people to play them all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4245_percussion.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ballet evening at the Royal Opera. Medhi Walerski&#8217;s Chamber. Wild and primal &#8211; a review I read likened it to The Rite of Spring. Interesting. Alexander Ekman&#8217;s Cacti. This guy has a brain that just doesn&#8217;t stop. Every minute something new is happening, he keeps thinking of new ways to use the body and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,796,5,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-dance","category-music","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23037,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23035\/revisions\/23037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}