How in the world...

So, today I was on my old kick of spending hours (that I should be studying or preparing for something more important) searching the internet resources from government websites to blogs for jobs, careers, purpose, direction, etc. from such varied topics as International Adoption (yes, I am back on that train, at least in the investigative process) to social advocacy to State Department positions to English language school internships in Rostov...

Anyway, I came across this website, and I am stunned at the coolness of this phenomenon:  apparently, the US State Department is sponsoring the Washington D.C. based contemporary dance company, CityDance Ensemble, in a tour of the most random and abnormal region for such a company/government partnership: Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Russia.  Cool, right?  I would have thought this would never happen.  Well, anyway, I happen to really love the director, Paul Emerson's writing style.  He wrote so beautifully about a girl in Belarus who weaseled her way into the company's class, and I had to post it...

The Woman in Black