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Experience
Tight Wire
(Main | Apr.19.2012 - May.19.2013)


Four artists representing lost lovers in Purgatory perform a complex and innovative tight wire act. Working simultaneously on four wires they encounter each other headed in opposite directions, dance a tango in the same direction, bounce into the air like trampolinists and even walk the wire in high heels and en pointe in ballet shoes.

When we were last graced with their presence, Jeeves was attempting to woo Deeda with his relatively poor singing and instrument playing abilities. Although she showed him up with a little Spanish flair, Jeeves succeeded to court Deeda. Here she shows up happy and pregnant! When her time to deliver comes - "Ay! ... Ay!Ay!" – they become giddy. So happy in fact they celebrate with a belly bump that serves to break Deeda's water (which they simulate rather humorously). With the baby now on the way hilarity ensues: Jeeves rushes off simulating the cries of an ambulance in transit and brings a gurney upon which to carry Deeda. And after putting up rubbery legs (to help simulate stirrups but not taking the reality of the process too far), out pops the child – an American football with a little clown nose. The two, happy with their new progeny, begin to play... tossing her into the air and back and forth to each other... getting further and further away until the baby falls to the stage; but she's okay. Then - "Ay! ... Ay!Ay!" – Deeda goes back into labor and another baby pops out, this one with a long stylized moustache like his father. Before the new parents can enjoy their second child Deeda's labor continues on and on and on! Now overwhelmed by a crying hoard of children, the clown pair take to the audience in an attempt to elicit their assistance with keeping them quiet (by singing "Rock-a-bye baby" to them)! It doesn't work...

Returning to the action, we find four artists representing lost lovers in Purgatory. These fil-de-fer specialists take action and walk across their precarious ropes with comfort and ease. In what appears to be homage to the roaring twenties, two men and two women take to the ropes displaying an escalating array of balancing and maneuvering skills: some flips, some leaps, bounces and even walking the ropes in high heels and en-pointe in ballet shoes! By the end of the performance both Romeo and Miranda find one another, but on opposite sides of the mountain top. They attempt to reach each other by crossing a rope but Cali, who is waiting in the wings, grabs Romeo and sends him back down to Earth!

 

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