AntiGravity

There was this show at Hawaii Theater this weekend calleed AntiGravity. It was a performance group, sort of circus-y. They were giving out tickets on the radio, which was how my dad heard about it. Some of the stunts they did were amazing, like with bungee cors and hoops suspended in the air.

Right before intermission, four guys were falling from a post about 20 ft. high and onto trampolines on either side, where they'd bounce back up to the post and jump off again or whatever. One of the guys hit the trampoline, and, instead of soaring back up to the post, he bounced the other direction and hit the floor. He lay curled up for about 30 seconds before some guys came out from backstage to see if he was alright. His body started jerking like he was convulsing. A few seconds late the act was over and the curtain went down. Meanwhile, the remaining three guys were continuing with the act, still grinning and bobbing their heads with the music and making rock-on signs with their hands. I think one guy looked down at him for like a second and went back to the act. I mean, I understand the whole "the show must go on" thing but I would definately have gone right down to try to help him. By the other performers not stopping their jumps and just ignoring the twitching guy on the floor, rather than smoothing the whole thing it over, I found it a lot more disturbing. How could they still be grinning like idiots while their friend may be dying? Even if it meant getting fired, I could not just keep pretending everything was okay.

We expected them at the end of the show to at least say over the loudspeaker, "By the way, that guy's going to be fine" or something, but they didn't say anything, just acted like the gaping hole in the formation of the guys in the finale was supposed to be there. I couldn't find anything about it on the internet or in the newspaper, so I still don't know what happened, whether or not I saw someone die last night.