Word: performancee
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When you try to put a performance, a happening, a tableau vivant in a museum, what do you get? Very little; the thing is over and done with and the museum-goer mulls over the leftovers, the photographs and documents, like a detective looking over a reopened file. It's...
Performance artist MILAN KOHOUT talks about his work with the Roma people (Gypsies) of the Czech Republic at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at Mobius, 354 Congress St., Boston. For more information, call 542-7416.
None of this at Avalon, where the house was packed and the crowd bounced as if the floor were on fire. If their on-stage antics (complete with flying mike stands) didn't give away their enthusiasm, the group's strong, unified performance sure did.
Yet if the energy at Saturday's show was explosive, the group's October appearance on campus at an IOP-sponsored rally was less than stellar. At that performance, the group played to a widely apathetic crowd that seemed to sap energy even from the perpetually wired-and-witty Flansburgh...
All of the band's tried-and-true crowd-pleasers were there, in a collection of songs from throughout their nearly 20-year existence. "Particle Man," "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul" were all received with riotously rowdy exuberance, although the straightforwardness with which they were performed-the...