It pays to read subway ads! 
I caught a glimpse of a poster for the Fall For Dance Festival as we passed through a station. Since I’m obsessed with dance, I remembered to look it up even though I only saw one other poster for it that day (and, for that matter, since that day).
Fall for Dance is a two week event at the end of September/early October with all sorts of dance performances – and you only pay $10 for the day! Since seeing live dance is always on my grab-that-chance list, the idea of a ticket I could fit into my budget was pretty thrilling.
The ticket website slowed to a crawl the minute the tickets went up for sale. I read that last year, the tickets sold out in a few hours… obviously other people were intent on getting their tickets before that happened, just like I was! Since you only have 13 minutes to complete an order once you select a ticket, it was pretty frustrating. But an hour and half later, I had my order complete.
After looking through the program, I chose two days, one from each weekend. I’m excited about the variety. I’m also excited because one performance uses puppets – an interest of mine since I started exploring shadow puppetry in grad school – and some of the dances use ethnic themes, which will be interesting from an anthro point of view. And I’ve always wanted to see live classical ballet, which I’ll get the second day I go.
Without further ado, my program:
Day 1:
Basil Twist
Petrushka Suite
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
I feel like
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Go for Barocco
Day 2:
The Australian Ballet
Le Spectre de la Rose
Sang Jijia
Snow
Diana Vishneva, Prima Ballerina of the Mariinksy Theatre
Dying Swan
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Revelations
Oh, and did I mention I have Orchestra seats??!
