City Dancing by Jain Sycamore, Wetdryvac
January 12th, 2011 1:47 PM / Location: 39.280135,-76.60666Then I realized that to do this with my partner, we'd have to ... organized.
Happily, happenstance saves the day again.
If you travel to the top of the third building of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, there's a very peaceful third floor that almost no-one's ever in on non-event days. The entire room, more than 100x60 feet, is a dance floor.
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 244-1900
From that dance floor, after you've gone past - legally, thank-you - the security cameras on the sketchy stairwell, and past the ladder for the roof, is serenity and the sounds of the city. One of those sounds is the moving sculpture outside, a whirling, spinning thing.
Shoes off, coat off. Sore back from a very long road trip ignored. And dancing.
Squeaks, wind, HVAC, birds, cars, boats in the harbor: A lovely experience, and my favorite part of the whole museum. The few people who did check the third floor seemed somewhat surprised to find people dancing and talking.
Video of the windmill sculpture on YouTube
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And, since I don't generally put pictures of myself places, the odds are low of that showing up in the future, so all that will be here is the story.
What a shame for a task to be ignored due to lack of documentation! Your write-up communicated the feeling of the dance, and that feeling was an uplifting one. To me, that's plenty.
(But maybe someday you will overcome your camera-shyness? In the new age of the internet, visibility is power. Unless your power is invisibility.)
May I recommend that your character adopt a costume or disguise? It is something I wish I had done so that I could be much more daring in my tasks.
This comment, in the context of dancing, so strongly reminded me of a game by Jane McGonigal which she describes in her awesome book "Reality is Broken"* and still can be found online: Top Secret Dance Off
The idea is to make people dance by turning dancing into an multiplayer online game that works somewhat like sf0. There are tasks, and every player has to create a "game character" that must wear at least one piece of disguise. It is for fun, and to let people feel more confident about doing possibly awkward things. Why does Jane want to make people dance? Because to move to music is making you happy! :)
* recommended reading
But... why don't i see you dancing?