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COOL TURE Dance – Art merges with transit at the San Diego Trolley Dances By Adrienne Ludwig On a trip to Switzerland ten years ago, San Diego Dance Theater artistic director Jean Isaacs was enthralled by the country’s inclination toward unconventional dance. “On my tour, I saw people making crêpes while dancing, people dancing by a lake, and a couple dancing on a rooftop to the sounds of cows mating,” Isaacs recounts. The body movements Isaacs witnessed abroad inspired her to forge a partnership with the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) shortly after her return to San Diego. Working in concert with MTS, Isaacs organized the inaugural San Diego Trolley Dances—a collection of avant-garde dances that celebrate modern life by incorporating fixtures found in urban landscapes. Isaacs’ mission was to introduce dance audiences to parts of San Diego with which they may have been unfamiliar, while simultaneously delivering art to people who utilize public transportation. This year marks the tenth annual Trolley Dances. Since the event’s inception, Isaacs has worked with more than 30 choreographers and 450 dancers to stage routines that liberate dance from its typical restraints. “What I like about the Trolley Dances is that the audience is not confined to a chair and isolated as they are in a theater," says Isaacs. The themes, music and locations for this year’s Trolley Dances were dictated by venerated choreographers, including Isaacs, Terry Wilson, Monica Bill Barnes, Anthony Rodriguez and Katie Stevenson. Zoom around town September 26-27 and October 4-5 in San Diego's signature red rovers on a five-stop tour that begins at Hazard Center, follows the San Diego River to Old Town, and then navigates Downtown. Ride on! TROLLEY DANCES TIX: $10-$30 Tours begin at the Hazard Center Trolley Station (off Friars Road) DATES: Saturday and Sunday, September 27-28 and October 4-5 TIME: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. daily; tours begin hourly and last two hours TIP: Wear good walking shoes. sandiegodancetheater.org theaters South DRIVE-IN Drive-in theaters revolutionized the cinematic experience by merging the majesty of Hollywood and America’s love affair with automobiles. But, thanks to DVD players, 52” high-defs and price gouging at the pump, these park-and-view destinations are all but a thing of the past. Over 300 drive-ins once called California home. Today, just a few dozen remain statewide, including these two in San Diego County. Santee Drive-In / santee 10990 Woodside Ave. » 619.448.7447 Bay Drive-In / imperial beach 2170 Coronado Ave. » 619.423.2727 » southbaydrivein.com 18 | SEPTEMBER 2008 « PACIFICsandiego.com
give a BOOK of the month COOL TURE hoot Downtown Owl, by best-selling author Chuck Klosterman by bonnie vandewater What does it mean to be normal? Reading Downtown Owl (Scribner, September 2008), the first novel by New York Times best-selling author Chuck Klosterman, may not give you the answer, but it may lead you to rephrase the question. A master at analyzing and dissecting pop culture, Klosterman has authored scores of esoteric articles and four books of analytical essays, including his 2003 bestseller, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He has been a senior writer for Spin and a regular contributor to The Washington Post, GQ and New York Times Magazine. Now, this quirky writer offers up his first work of fiction—a darkly comedic examination of life in Owl, a small town somewhere in North Dakota. The story involves a strange high school football player named Mitch, a borderline alcoholic named Julia, a bison farmer who listens to the Rolling Stones album, Goats Head Soup, and an old-timer who drinks too much coffee and obsesses about his dead wife. By delving deep into the human psyche, Klosterman shows how a seemingly “normal” life can be, well… extraordinary. Bonnie Vandewater: What can you tell us about Downtown Owl? Chuck Klosterman: It’s a fictional account of North Dakota in 1983, and it essentially follows the lives of three main characters who are aware of each other, because it’s a small community, but who have no real relationship. But they’re kind of unified ultimately by a situation at the end of the book. It’s more like a character study than a plot-driven book. BV: What are you working on now? CK: Right now I’m working on another book of essays. I decided I wanted to do shorter pieces again. I had these different things I was playing around with, and then decided I wanted to write about the things that interest me personally. I like to take two unlike things—or things that seem unalike—and show how the experience consuming them is the same. BV: Will you be stopping in San Diego for a book tour? CK: I’ll be coming to L.A., but not San Diego. You know, I’ve never been to San Diego. The only time I ever travel is if it’s work-related. I’ve never taken a vacation. My girlfriend wants to go to Costa Rica next February, and if we do that, it will be the first time I’ve ever gone somewhere purely to hang out. I don’t even know what people do on vacation. Growing up, my parents never took a vacation. I think I’d get bored. I feel like a vacation would be a lot of work. You have the responsibility of having to get up at a certain time. Like, “Oh, we’ve gotta go look at the mountains.” I don’t like planning things, and, on vacation, people always want to plan things. I imagine if I went to San Diego for two weeks, I’d feel like it was a job. now serving breakfast SATURDAY & SUNDAY AT 9a.m. Featuring Tropical Mimosas and a Make-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar All-You-Can Eat Crab (TUESDAY 6-10p.m.) Kick Off Football Season! All NFL and College Games on Hi-Def Satellite Indoor and Outdoor Flatscreen TVs! HAPPY HOUR: MONDAY THRU FRIDAY, 3-6 PM THUSYS: $3 U-C-ITS HNCFT US S ON-SIT MICOWY
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