Word: contortionistic
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...found objects for him to "sculpt." He's now composing a ditty to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll, though he keeps getting stuck on the lyric, "I spent my whole life being pigeon-holed." He needn't worry. He is too clever a cultural contortionist for that...
...Having met these seekers in their most intimate moments, we soon get to know them better. Severin (Lindsay Beamish), the dominatrix, can't get past the idea of sex as a power struggle expressed in theatrical terms. The bathtub guy, Jamie (PJ DeBoy), and the contortionist, James (Paul Dawson), have been a couple for a few years. Now they want to expand and experiment. As James observes dismissively, "Monogamy is for straight people...
...Having met these seekers in their most intimate moments, we soon get to know them better. Severin (Lindsay Beamish), the dominatrix, can't get past the idea of sex as a power struggle expressed in theatrical terms. The bathtub guy, Jamie (PJ DeBoy), and the contortionist, James (Paul Dawson), have been a couiple for a few years. Now they want to expand and experiment. As James observes dismissively,"Monogamy is for straight people...
...There’s a lot of in the moment training. You...sort of learn on the go,” says Savitsky. During her childhood in San Francisco, Savitsky and her best friend joined the Pickle Family Circus, where she spent seven years as a contortionist. She says her role in the 2004 play “Venus”—in which she played a circus freak—is her “only real instance” of “doing any contortion work at Harvard.” Some might disagree...
...merely one of the show's hundred or so impossible epiphanies. A royal barge revolves on a placid sea; a boat rocks wildly and sinks; a woman plunges 70 ft. and is dragged back up; a beach suddenly comes to life with an acrobatic starfish and contortionist crabs; a forest of metal tubes features a giant stick bug, a scorpion and an 80-ft. snake; a tepee turns into a man-powered flying machine; actors scale a sheer cliff, an icy mountain--all onstage...