Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Bikes, Dancing, Mud, and Drums


PORTLAND, Ore. – When I started doing this bike vlog this summer I was afraid I’d run out of things to cover during the rainy season. Well, I was wrong. This weekend the Sprockettes hosted several bike events starting with a Dance Party Friday night that had bike dance teams (The Sprockettes, The B:C:Clettes, The Brakes) and live music including one of my favorite groups, Show Me the Pink. I missed Saturday’s events because I was working in Miz Kitty’s Parlour. But Reverend Phil has some videotapes from Saturday's events.

Sunday the USGP of Cyclocross came through town with some of the top riders in the world. The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, rowdy fans, and hottubbers greeted them. Later that night the Cross Crusade held their awards party which was also very entertaining and included the LRS Drummers, along with fire dancers from Atyerre Vision, and acrobats from the A-Wol Dance Collective.

I took me a day just to recover from this rainy weekend version of Burning Man done Pacific Northwest style. “Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. You just got to poke around.”

This is a quick montage some of the weekends bike events. I plan on doing more with the USGP race footage and the Sprocettes weekend separately.


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7 Comments:

BikeCraft said...

greetings from canadia! good to see some footage of the weekend... can't wait to see more of Sprockettes, B:C:Clettes and Brakes.. love your website.. we are new friends...www.myspace.com/bcclettes.. come visit vancouver xoxox cara & bcclettes.

9:55 PM  
PDXK TV said...

Sorry I spelled your name incorrectly in this video. I promise get it right in future ones. :) Great show, by the way!

10:15 PM  
midnightmass said...

Hey - I'm one of the brakes.. any chance I could get my hands on the raw footage of the Brakes and the B:C:clettes?

Super rad that you did a segment on this event - it was so much fun

2:26 AM  
Gabriel Amadeus said...

way to go, I think the lighting for the dance was great. Glad you could make it out to such a wide variety of events, and film them as well!

7:59 AM  
Daniel said...

Great video -

btw: The ariel dancers are from the AWOL dance collective:

http://www.a-woldance.org/

11:19 AM  
DAJ said...

The fire dancers are from Altyerre Vision, another local performance group in Portland.

10:17 PM  
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