Encounters: Javier

Of course I shouldn't have been surprised to run into someone else on U Street, but I hadn't seen Javier in a while.

I actually met him while I was doing my undergrad at UMD. My first semester there, I was one of multiple dancers in Dan Singh's Thesis. He now is Artistic Director of his own dance company, Dakshina.

Javier was one of the social dancers he pulled in for the piece (geez, this was almost 7 years ago). And it was a cool thesis because the audience sat in the round and the evening alternated with social dance to dance pieces, so the audience alternatively participated and became performers themselves (if they so chose).

Was good seeing him.