If you haven't yet found your true love to help you celebrate Valentine's Day in LA, Soulmate Synchronicities is just 1 of over 100 workshops and lectures taking place over 4 days at the Conscious Life Expo the weekend before Valentine's Day. This is a very LA experience, where you can also learn about energy healing, DNA adjustment, metaphysics, enhancing your psychic powers, creating a green economy or meeting extraterrestrials. A little something for everyone.
When: Feb 10-13, 2012
Where: Hilton LAX, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Cost: $10-25 day pass gets you in to the expo and the day's "free" lectures. Keynotes and workshops have additional fees from $20 to $55 . Package rates are available. Discounts for online purchase.
Parking: Discounted self-parking at the Hilton with validation
Info: www.consciouslifeexpo.com
Note: Check kayak.com for rooms at the Hilton below the conference rate if booked before January 31.
My favorite Cirque du Soleil production is usually the one I've seen most recently, because I become enchanted all over again. OVO, which opened Friday, January 20, 2011 in Santa Monica is no exception. It's a magical glimpse into a world of colorful insects twisting, contorting, leaping and flying across the stage. Liz Vandal's costumes are amazing, inspired by, rather than replicating the creatures they represent.
Bright green crickets with bent back legs are the most impressive creatures. Black widow spiders with their distinctive hourglass imprint, transform from comic characters to acrobatic contortionists trapping other unsuspecting insects in their web. A bevy of red ants tumbles giant slices of kiwi and each other on their feet. Scarab beetles (which I took for cockroaches) perform a high-flying trapeze act. A dragonfly executes an intricate hand balancing act in and out of a windy vine. The slackwire walker who, in addition to other feats of balance and flexibility, rides a unicycle with his hands across a wire that's being lifted and lowered as he rides is one impressive spider!
Interspersed among the acrobatic acts, a fly shows up in the colony with a mysterious egg. Said fly develops a crush on a lonely lady bug, and with the help of the comic Master Flipo, of unidentified insectitude, courts his lady friend to the desired romantic interspecies conclusion.
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