Arts and entertainment news and reviews.
by Jeremy Berg
Performance art differs most of all from any associated discipline in that its very nature changes with the circumstances of any given night (which is one reason that performance art frequently involves audience participation). Unlike theater, a performance art piece, while it may contain planned elements, can never be written down and done by others because “it is live, it is personal.”
“The Weather Underground” opens Friday, October 3rd for a one week run
at the Times Cinema, 5906 W. Vliet St., Milwaukee. Showtimes are 7:00 and
9:00 nightly; 3:30, 7 & 9:00 Saturday and Sunday.
The most radical of all the groups formed in protest of the war in Vietnam, Weather Man was also media-savvy, and its spokespeople–who were almost without exception young and photogenic–were always in search of the perfect media moment. It’s hard to believe that these college students were anything more than poster children for the Resistance, yet many in their ranks were deadly in their idealistic fervor.
article and photos by Tess Reiss, Center St. Daze Director
Spectators were treated to some delightful impromptu street theatre when the Swami Dolla’ Bill belly dancers stopped their flying carpet in the midst of the race to shimmy to exotic music. This entranced their fellow “Alien” racers, who swooned and lay down in the street in submission. The crowd roared and cheered when the “Aliens” recovered from their trance (as the carpet began to take off), jumped back onto their cart, and dashed pell mell to the start line to win the race.
Clamor Magazine & Rooftop Films will be in Milwaukee on their “Project (Stop The) Mayhem” tour of the Midwest Tuesday, October 7th 7:00pm-9:30pm Free and Open to the Public Hosted by the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design at the Eisner Museum 208 N. Water St.
This Friday, Oct. 3rd, George W. Bush will appear in Milwaukee at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., for a luncheon fundraiser for his re-election campaign. The Milwaukee Coalition to Normalize Relations With Cuba invites you to join in their demonstration. The overall focus of the demonstration, which involves many other groups, will be against the war policies and the shifting of expenditures from domestic needs, but defense of our civil rights is one of the overall demands.
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