The Daedalus Rising performance by the Anunnaki Project  on Friday evening at Cal Anderson Park was everything anyone could dream for, especially those who worked so long and hard to rehabilitate the park.

Many hundreds of well-behaved people (all, except perhaps Dennis Saxman, much younger than me) sat on the grass at the south end of the park and enjoyed the aerial and ground dance, singing, fire-swinging & fire-eating performances from the very talented and energetic troupe of performers. The show was centered around the organization’s freestanding aerial dance structure, Daedalus (made possible by a 2008 grant from King County 4Culture, i.e. you and me). I’m happy to report than none of my gloomy fussings about naming things after Daedalus were warranted. You can catch their shows at several locations this summer and see their professional pictures of their past events.

A picture being worth a thousand words (and a movie worth a million?), I’ve uploaded some pictures here and added some movies to the CHS site.

You can browse through all my movies here, or go straight to them in medium format ( #1, #2, #3, #4, #5) or in the splendid large format ( #1, #2, #3, #4, #5). They’re not great (handheld, sitting in middle of audience) but should give the flavor of the event. See you at their next show.

UPDATE: The Cabiri website has details of the performances and  a link to this great photoset.