Home is ....
Jul. 26th, 2008 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiA high five from one of the surly Russians who barely acknowledge most of the crew.
Knowing who needs fist bumps as they fly out of the garage, and who just wants to fly.
"Bon Voyage" instead of the terribly unlucky "Bonne chance!" for a superstitious clown.
A 4'11" female Russian flyer threatening to beat up a 6'2" 100kg rigger. And I reckon she could take him. There's a reason we call her Nastia.
The same 4'11" (buff and bulky) flyer being subbed in at the last minute for a 5'10" willowy dancer in a static image, and hamming it up for all she's worth.
1 rigger taking 3 minutes to fit a harness on the male half of our hand-to-hand duo, while 3 riggers take 10 minutes to fit the female ....
"Shit. Hold this turnbuckle til I stop laughing"
"This is a 5 minute warning to load aerial artists in the grid" "Well, we could, but they cut the aerial act - won't they get kinda bored?" " ... bloody hell. Never mind."
An Australian trampoline artist nicknamed Kangaroo.
And a host of other moments you just had to be there for.
Home is final dress rehearsal before soft opening. Home is the angels I've grown to love and the crew who keep them flying.
I'm still coming back to Melbourne in 18 months. But there are worse places than here.
jai.
.
Knowing who needs fist bumps as they fly out of the garage, and who just wants to fly.
"Bon Voyage" instead of the terribly unlucky "Bonne chance!" for a superstitious clown.
A 4'11" female Russian flyer threatening to beat up a 6'2" 100kg rigger. And I reckon she could take him. There's a reason we call her Nastia.
The same 4'11" (buff and bulky) flyer being subbed in at the last minute for a 5'10" willowy dancer in a static image, and hamming it up for all she's worth.
1 rigger taking 3 minutes to fit a harness on the male half of our hand-to-hand duo, while 3 riggers take 10 minutes to fit the female ....
"Shit. Hold this turnbuckle til I stop laughing"
"This is a 5 minute warning to load aerial artists in the grid" "Well, we could, but they cut the aerial act - won't they get kinda bored?" " ... bloody hell. Never mind."
An Australian trampoline artist nicknamed Kangaroo.
And a host of other moments you just had to be there for.
Home is final dress rehearsal before soft opening. Home is the angels I've grown to love and the crew who keep them flying.
I'm still coming back to Melbourne in 18 months. But there are worse places than here.
jai.
.