Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheel" that looks like a huge skeletal snare drum, but Chris Lashua does somersaults and daredevil revolutions within the wheel as he steers it almost into the laps of the first-row spectators. Men are not supposed to be springboards, yet the Ukrainian and Russian acrobats in the "banquine" perform high-dive triple twists from the top of a four-man pyramid. Humans aren't built for the gorgeous torture to which Yves Decoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage submit themselves in their "hand-to-hand" body sculpture. Caked with white makeup and executing exquisitely slow convolutions, they could be Prometheus...
...around the motif of opposites. Peter and Jerry lead very different lifestyles: Peter has the conventional family life with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets, while Jerry lives alone in a rooming house with two empty picture frames. The theme of opposites supports the decision to perform The Actor's Nightmare, directed by Hilary K. Snow, right after The Zoo Story, pairing the tragedy with a comedy...
...similar premise: a man who leads a very conventional life suddenly has his world turned completely upside-down. In this case, however, the story follows a different path. Scott Brown plays George Spelvin, an accountant, who one day finds himself in a theater and is expected to perform. Now it is the "normal" man who finds himself out of place...
...Pool. A classic collegiate game, pool is almost preliminary, warm-up event to the heart of the competition. Generally, hand-eye coordination is still intact, which means that players of high skill and low tolerance manage to perform fairly well...
Cohen said the group usually pays for tours with money from the several professional shows and corporate dinners they perform around Boston each week...