Word: surrealism
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...nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read," says a soothsayer in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. And last week a team of marine archaeologists provided a glimpse of what they contend are lost secrets of the real Antony and Cleopatra: surreal video footage of 2,000-year-old statues and stelae from a site less than 20 ft. underwater. The ruins appear to correspond to a palace in ancient Alexandria--perhaps the love nest of classical history's most powerful lovers, the pair who, the Bard wrote, "kiss'd away Kingdoms." Proof may still be wanting...
...Gibson is all this and more. Anyone who saw Mel's "speech" in Sanders Tuesday was witness to one of the more surreal and embarrassing exchanges to take place on this campus since Gina Grant was admitted to the College. He began by admitting he had absolutely nothing to say, and then launched into a pitiful Yale joke and a long, rambling story about a carrot. It got worse from there...
Quidam tours California for the next year before heading to Denver, Dallas, Houston, New York City, Chicago and Atlanta. More buoyant than the 1994 Alegria, less self-consciously surreal than the '92 Saltimbanco, Quidam is prime, mature Cirque. It is beyond circus, beyond theater; it makes the incredible visible...
...Daniel Alexander Jones commanding the stage, moving so seductively that one cannot help but be enraptured by his grace. Jones' presence dominates the piece, overshadowing the two other performers, Daniel Dodd-Ellis and Jason Phelps. A hodgepodge "jam session" of black gay experience, superheroes, soul singing and Julia Child surreal fantasy, "Blood:Shock:Boogie" is wildly entertaining and ingenious at many points. Its greatest attribute is a lack of commitment to narrative and straightforward meaning, so that its entire commentary on life experience rests on the exact moment that its performers are onstage...
Climbing rocks, both real and ersatz, is catching on. The mainstream is jumping in because rock climbing is safer and easier in the 200 or so rock-climbing gyms that have opened nationwide. These indoor Rockies look Dali surreal. Climbers scale walls up to 70 ft. high, replete with overhangs, and dangle from ceilings made of gray granite or synthetic materials that resemble cliff faces. Color-coded hand- and footholds form routes of varying degrees of difficulty...