Alaxsxa

Last week we had a theater group present for the school and community.  They weren’t able to do the full show because of time restraints (the flew over, set up, performed, tore down, and flew out in one day) and the issues that come with having to bring anything you want to use for the performance on a plane.  Instead, they performed select sections, showed recordings of previously performed portions, and gave brief descriptions of omitted segments.  Sometimes, you have to get creative to make things work out here.  The play was titled Alaxsxa after the name the native Alaskans gave the land before Russians came.  The play was an intermingling of Alaskan history and the personal stories of two of the actors, an army brat coming to Alaska and an Alaskan native from the same community.  As they went through the stories they were able to share the different perspectives and discuss some difficult topics and issues within Alaska.  At the end of the play, they had an open forum discussion with the community and then our seal dancers performed a seal dance, a sea-gull dance and another super cool dance that I don’t know what it’s called.  We really enjoyed watching the dancers and Mike looked like he enjoyed joining then when one of our middle school students pulled him up to join the group.  Unfortunately, my camera and I are having some conflict about how it’s handling what it thinks are low light situations so I don’t have any good pictures of that part of the dance.