The World is getting smaller and smaller...

Today I had yet another dose of the six degrees of separation that separate those of us working in the entertainment business. During the summer of 2006, the craft room had an assortment of volunteers help building armor. At the time, it just seemed kind of neat...one of our volunteers said he was from Hawaii...involved in a dance troupe in Honolulu. He loved that he was working in the craft room because he got to chat to us about masks...one of the key elements to his performance duet. He and his companions worked chiefly with fiberglass..not that unusual considering other hobbies included manufacturing surf boards. I took his post card...hoping to catch a performance should the company pass through Chicago or New York.

Over a year has gone by since that random encounter. I had not thought upon Monkey Waterfall until it smacked me in the face today. Our guest scenic designer was filling me in on a little bit of his other projects...one of them being the creation of a dance performance piece called Monkey Waterfall that his wife is one of the dancers in. Wait a second...that name sounds awfully familiar...I remember meeting a guy excited about masks who was the waterfall to her monkey...where had that chance meeting been...

From Honolulu to Spring Green. I've now met two thirds of the mastery behind this group. Not only that, but worked with two thirds of the troupe under completely different circumstances...neither of which are related to their primary project. The world is becoming smaller by the minute.