Daredevil Troupe Dances High Above Yosemite
There's an old storytelling strategy -- utilized often in horror movie franchises -- that's used to inject some new excitement into the tale: Set the story in space. "Critters 4," "Jason X," "Leprauchan 4," all of these movies were set in space. (They were all also, not surprisingly, terrible.) In the realm of live dance, that's not really an option. But Bandaloop, a dance troupe from Oakland, may have discovered the next best thing: Setting a routine on a Yosemite mountain.
The troupe of six dancers and nine support crew members spent ten days hiking through the Yosemite wilderness before suspending themselves from cables 3,000 feet above the ground, off the granite cliff-sides of Mount Watkins (pictured above). There, they performed a choreographed dance routine. But it wasn't for a large audience of people.
As he Daily Mail puts it, they performed:
In front of an audience of birds, bugs, squirrels, and perhaps a bear or two.
And, luckily for us, a few folks with cameras. To check out the entire set of photos, click here.
