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Aerial Text Experiments
Circus Warehouse presents an evening of poetry, aerial arts, music and visual arts collaborations in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
This is a review for last year's event: What would it feel like to throw a social-media facilitated poetry bash that turned into an international viral sensation where 700 different events took place in 550 cities in 95 different countries on a single day in September? I don't know. You'll have to ask 100K Poets for Change creator, Michael Rothenberg, longtime friend and collaborator of Circus Warehouse's Suzi Winson.
What I do know is how blown away I was by the Warehouse's contribution to the global slam: Aerial Text Experiments. If it wasn't the only warped circus tanztheater poetry "reading" that went down as part of 100K, it must surely have been the only one taking place on x,y and z axis.
Next up, Susan Brennan read her poem KITE, accompanied by aerialist Maia Ramnath on silks. Brennan held aloft stick puppet word props to punctuate her reading as above, Ramnath carved fluently through space.
A bemused Michelle Arvin poured herself through and draped herself over a chair dangling in mid-air for Sarah Jones' post-Gil Scott Heron womanifesto Your revolution wll not happen between these thighs.
For The Invocation of a close Friend, Kelvin Daly played a mutant, self-made electric cello to accompany a lithesome turn on silks by Liron Dan.
Aerialists Craig Whitehouse and Megan Cattau followed Thomas Devaney's reading of THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING with a separated-at-birth duet on dance trapeze before a projected, time-lapse cityscape night.
In PRESENTING, Liron Dan and Michelle Arvin tossed and teased in double hammocks in comic counterpoint to emcee Kelvin Daly's twisted harangue.
Poet Thomas Devaney began The Hungry Tree, reading his freshly-penned, poignant rumination on precarious memories before turning things over to aerialist Annie Plick for a brooding routine on single point dance trapeze done to Massive Attack.
In The Small and the Shimmering, Summer Lacy took a turn on lyra before a self-made and starkly beautiful projection of bare trees crawling with lines of poetry.
The show's finale, Sylvia Plath's comic/existential Mad Girl's Love Song, directed by Katie McHugh, would have felt at home hovering over, tumbling through and sweeping across a stentorian Pina Bausch piece. Featuring aerialist actors Nicki Miller, Kendall Rileigh and Nolan McKew and their histrionic up and down relationships, Mad Girl's Love Song brought a fitting close to an evening of poetic effrontery.
People are already talking about 100K Poets for Change 2012. May the Aerial Text Experiments go annual.
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LocationCircus Warehouse (View)
53-21 VERNON BLVD
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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