In class this morning we began a look at Maya ceramics, starting with forms including relations between cooking and serving wares and chronological development. We then discussed the texts including the primary standard sequence, and moved on to a discussion of the imagery that will take us through next week. For today, we mainly discussed the processions or dances of supernatural counterparts known as wayob, and looked at two different strands of interpretation, both of which are supported by images and texts.
In the afternoon Sara came over to go over the trip expenses with me and then we went to dinner at her apartment, prepared by Peggy, Alica, James, Rhett and Maria Luisa. Afterwords we joined many other Lasom students at the restaurant called La Pera to watch Valerie, Julie and others perform salsa dancing. Valerie was brilliant in her group work (four couples). Julie also did quite a bit of solo dancing with two partners, one of whom, her instructor, was dancing with a broken leg! Julie raised the standard up several levels. To call her dancing spectacular would be an understatement!
The dance performance ended late (for me) so I had to give up on attending Rivkah's birthday party. Apologies to Rivkah.
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