I get it from my Momma

Happy Belated Mother’s day! Though my family celebrated such a day on the calendar marked day with breakfast and shopping, my sister and I also celebrated Mother’s day with our Mom last weekend. We went to the ballet!

One of our favorite bands, Over the Rhine (previously featured on the blog) performed with the Cincinnati Ballet for a show called Infamous Love Songs. It was fantastic! There were 3 different sections, if you will. Each was choreographed and costumed by different people. I wish I could remember exactly how they sectioned them off.. But they each had about 6 songs in them I feel like one was about breaking up entitled “Missing You” (if I’m not mistaken) one about flirting? (i.e. the fun songs) and last I have to believe had something to do with lust. Overall an awesome show! Over the Rhine performed live behind the dancers on a stage. My favorite was the last section! Lust, surprise surprise. It had the best costumes in my opinion! Plus one of their dancers was rocking a ‘fro & I simply loved it. Comment if you love it below, I’m trying to convince my roommate to rock one too =).

Sadly, there was a “no photography permitted” rule, so I scoured the internet to find a few from reviews and the Cincinnati Ballet’s website. So let credit go where it is due, not to me!

The cover of the programs.. sort of & the banner

The image of Over The Rhine in the program

Performing!

I believe this was part of "Missing You"

Okay I forgot my picture doesn't have her in a full fro.. but come on, you can imagine her rocking it. Also-- this is the costume I loved. Yay Lace!

A group of dancers, I believe from the first section.

Dahlias in her hair

Currently for one of my classes I am making an animation (a really cool animation) of lyrics to go with a song of my choosing. For Christmas this year my sister got me a cd by a local Cincinnati band called Over the Rhine, their website is linked. I have fallen in love with them! The cd she got me is one of their like 20 cds, ‘the trumpet child.’  Anycahoosit, the song I chose of theirs (On a Roll) has a lyric in it “Dahlias in her hair.” Now listening to this song I had assumed that a dahlia was a flower of some sort, I was correct, but I had no idea how cool of a flower it was! I also have a thing for plants, so I got really excited.

And now, I think I found yet another hypothetical child’s name. Dahlia. Ah love it! So here’s one of my drawings that I made in illustrator that will somehow make it into my animation.. I kinda dislike flash right now.. It’s giving me lip. A lot of lip.

violet also happens to be my favorite color