June 13, 2003

Vegas just keeps getting better

After Nice, a Return to Vice: The contortionist perched at the edge of a transparent basin like a nymph on the rim of a cocktail glass. She peeled off her bra and slid into the water, followed by a woman who was her near mirror-image. The two began a submerged dance less acrobatic than erotic: their backs arched, their arms twined, their legs moved in anatomically improbable ways. Facing each other beneath the water, the pair mimed an embrace, then a kiss, then movements best left to a reader's imagination. Viewed from the platform of a rehearsal stage, the scene had the fuzzy unreality of soft-core fantasy. [13:46]  [ ]