The bodies are splashing in water, to operatic singing.   Up the stairs, bodies are writhing, posing, spreading, to poetry: “There are so many beautiful bodies out there that don’t know it…but I do…” repeats the guy with the Old Navy-looking microphone. Down below where the beautiful bodies, different bodies are moving, stretching, reaching, expanding, and shrinking, to…silence?
“The city landscape provides sounds and images that could be the music for the piece,” explains Krissa Englebright, an observer with a super-cool Viszla and darn-cute kid.  She also happens to be a dancer and teacher of creative dance, who, along with her troupe, performed last week in the SiteWorks site-specific dance exhibit at the Museum of Glass, and has some expertise on the topic. We are watching Walrus Dance Company as they perform their improvisational dance on the steps going down the side of the hot-shop on the exterior of the MOG. 
I walked over from my own special secret-squirrel parking spot at the UWT (shhhh, don’t tell anyone!) and  was excited to see people â€" actual living, breathing, walking people coming over the BOG (Bridge of Glass, don’cha know.) It’s the first time I’ve seen so many people so enthused about third Thursday.  Call it hot weather, and people wanting to get out.  Call it a culturally enlightened T-Town (I like the sound of “DoTa,” for downtown Tacoma.)  Call it what you want.  I call it very, very cool. â€" Story and photography by Jessica Corey-Butler