Sheep tails!

I’m trying out a new curse word there, what do you think?

Today was taken up by bits and pieces… epic breakfast (I discovered veggie sausage, and even more different types of food than previously known – kippers, oatmeal, and mor!), shopping, wandering, Edinburgh Castle, and then a Fringe outing.

The Fringe outing was entitled “Up & Over It! An Irish Dance Spectacular.” I’m usually deeply suspicious when something has the word spectacular in the title, as they’re usually compensating for something… especially when they follow it up with extravaganza.

Being that there were only two dancers in the show, I couldn’t call it a spectacular, or extravangza. However, those two dancers were indeed spectacular. The show stars Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding. If you’re a dance nerd, okay, if you’re Katherine, you know that they have quite a few titles between them, and danced in Riverdance and other shows.

The show was a “modernization” that didn’t always work – weird video footage, and some attempts at hip hop that were a fail, but the actual Irish dancing was mind blowingly good. They are both still insanely incredibly impossibly good dancers. They did things that I didn’t know were possible. There was a section where they both both on toe stands (hers were better, so I watched her!) that I really don’t think are possible. It must have been faked somehow. Their hard shoe was just… brilliant.

The best part… a lot of Irish dancers tap out the steps with their hands… they took this to a new level, and converted it into an argument / battle that was both hilarious and mesmerizing. I’ve been trying, but my hands don’t work as well as theirs (not even trying for feet).

Supremely cool.

I’m off to York in the morning, then London by the evening. Then it’s one last day in Londontown, and flying back to Canada on Friday.