Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder my head off. Alzheimer's creates only indecipherable stares and shattered monologues. The patient broods like a dark road or spews smashed china; don't even bother to go for a broom...
...serious about its philosophy. In performance, it really does make startling, beautiful use of the unexpected. The opening act sets the tone for the rest of the show: A young man, wearing a scruffy work shirt and jeans splattered with paint, enters from the wings, pushing a large broom before him across the dusty floor. Evidently intrigued by the noises made by the rhythmic swish of the broom's bristles against the floor, he begins to experiment with its tempo and pressure, resulting in swishes and taps of varying pitch and loudness...
Then another sweeper enters from the wings, and another. Greeting each other only with nods and grunts of "Oi!", their broom-strokes begin to beat out variations on a theme, interweaving and refracting each other. As the rhythm builds, the sweepers become carried away and start to dance to the beat...
...makes Stomp work moment-to-moment is the power and energy of its performers. This is contact dancing--a wrong move can occasionally lead to an impact injury--and it's no-holds-barred drumming as well. The musical implements are wielded by their players with such ferocity that broom heads actually snap off and poles break in half more than once during the performance; without missing a beat, a replacement is immediately tossed in from the wings...
...Monkeys of the Shitty Island," has enough comedy and matter-of-fact prose to keep the narrative moving along quickly. However, beneath the deceptive surface-simplicity, the novel is so richly textured that it deserves repeated reading. Filled with brilliant throwaway lines ("her voice like a little broom sweeping off the dust that had piled up on the slates of a venetian blind"), its keen observations about relationships are reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1995 film "Chungking Express...