Waterfall tucked in wilderness: We went into the upper porch, outside the beautiful main, dance room and workshop space

Harbin ethnography:


... We went into the upper porch, outside the beautiful main, dance room and workshop space, where people leave their shoes on wooden shelves. This beautiful Harbin Conference Center structure (Fig. 1.8 & SLURL) is tucked in the woods on the other side of the Harbin creek from Mainside, and is about 300 virtual meters from the Harbin Domes, on the same side. It feels Scandinavian in design to me, and is designed as rustic modern (built in 1980?), with low, clean lines, a nice sense of space throughout the main space and other attached porches and rooms, and is built using a lot of wood. It's a great place for dances and workshops. The sound of music was drifting out onto the open porch, so we took off our virtual shoes and went into the space. Many people were dancing singly. One couple was jamming doing contact improv near the door. The DJ at one end of the room had hung 3 luminous, 'black light wall hangings with images of the energy body, Krishna and Ganesh, which were glowing. Three women and two men were dancing without shirts on. The music playing was acoustic, polyrhythmic, passionate, and almost Arabic-sounding. I picked the dervish script from my Second Life inventory ...












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/waterfall-tucked-in-wilderness-we-went.html - April 7, 2010)