Word: performancy
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...case Valentine’s Day has left you feeling down on love, cheer yourself up by stepping back and watching other couples bicker for a while—amuse yourself even further with the fact that they are puppets. Watch celebrated puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis perform “Battle of the Sexes” and other sketches at The Puppet Showplace, and revel in the amusement of failed puppet love...
...rarity in the divided city of Jerusalem. A flutter of apprehension runs through the packed basement that is the Syndrome Club as comedian Ray Hanania takes the stage. Hanania is a Palestinian, and the Jewish audience is wondering if his jokes will strike like Molotov cocktails. "I usually perform for Arab groups in the States," Hanania says peering through the nightclub smoke at the crowd, "And this is quite a change for me... it's good to have an audience that's not hooded and shackled...
...They ruled the roost,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “They were the best so far this year. They really came through today, they fenced to their potential.” The foil squad continued to perform flawlessly, finishing 9-0, as sophomore Elizabeth Bast filled in for Goldfeder with a perfect 3-0 night. Women’s saber posted the only loss of the night, finishing 8-1. But the squad also saw its fair share of highlights, including junior Alexa Weingarden, who was touched just three times on the night while winning...
...guest writer. They shared a love for ensemble comedy like Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, and hit it off. Before Comedy Central signed them for their first season on television, the pair developed the show live at a small club in Los Angeles, where they still regularly perform. The show features material largely imported from the stage show but cropped to fit within the constraints of television blocking. The improvisational parts of the live show were cut back, though they’ve kept the occasional musical interlude, which they perform with their group, the so-called...
...workshops at Harvard are definitely influenced by her,” says Holden.REACHING OUTDespite a strong tradition of publishing poetry at Harvard, literary journals such as The Advocate are no longer the only place on campus where students participate in poetry. The spoken-word movement, a combination of performance art, poetry reading, and poetry jam, is rapidly gaining prominence at Harvard, and part of its purpose it to introduce the art of poetry to a wider audience—especially to non-specialists.“What I like about spoken word is that there is no comp...