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magidSunday was the premiere performance of the Madcap Rumpus Society with Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band. Or is the Society the performers and the musicians together? Either way, it was a spectacular show, with clowns and stilt dancers, a hula hoop (-er? -ist?) and a belly dancer, a twirler of fabric that would have been fire had it been outdoors, people performing on the trapeze, a suspended not-a-hula-hoop, aerial silks (including two people on the same silks at once!), long straps ending in loops (wow, gravity doesn't usually work like that!), the whole accompanied by the 14-person band with music that felt like energetic klezmer with a dash of Romani.
I knew a lot of the people in the audience, as well as some playing or performing; it was like old home week, sort of. I'm amazed by the things people I know can do. They're not professionals, to have that kind of time to devote, and yet the performances were impressive, even when there were rough edges. It felt like a cross between Cirque (all the acrobatics, especially silks) and the kid circus I saw once in Addis (where the audience was very caring, clapping more to cheer up a kid when the performance didn't go as planned), a balance between spectacle and caring. Plus a whole lot of fun.
A much more detailed review, by Siderea.
I knew a lot of the people in the audience, as well as some playing or performing; it was like old home week, sort of. I'm amazed by the things people I know can do. They're not professionals, to have that kind of time to devote, and yet the performances were impressive, even when there were rough edges. It felt like a cross between Cirque (all the acrobatics, especially silks) and the kid circus I saw once in Addis (where the audience was very caring, clapping more to cheer up a kid when the performance didn't go as planned), a balance between spectacle and caring. Plus a whole lot of fun.
A much more detailed review, by Siderea.