The opera world is fleeting; performances rarely stretch beyond a run of seven or eight shows.
In February, Pace will also present a retrospective of the famous Happenings, those fleeting performances, primarily from the 1950s and '60s, that are considered classics of the genre today.
(Burke Gabriel Missee and Analia Centurion (Friday, Tuesday and next Friday) During an eight-day series of classes, workshops and festive gatherings, these celebrated tango dancers offer a few fleeting performances at late-night milongas.
Some people call it being "in the zone," but I think it's more complex than that, more accessible than those fleeting performances that athletes, entertainers or on-deadline workers report just a few times in a career.
Aside from a surprising Best Original Screenplay award for Jordan Peele, Sufjan Stevens's fleeting, killer performance, and James Ivory's incredible Timothée Chalamet shirt, this year's Academy Awards were pretty unmemorable.
After a decade in the works, it lasted a fleeting seven performances.
When Brendan Canty and Christoph Green, Washington filmmakers, traveled to Chicago last September to videotape bands playing in a doomed house, they had an unusual goal: to capture fleeting live performances in a similarly short-lived setting.
The fleeting nature of performance art makes it a risky medium for conventional exhibitions, but two museums rise to the challenge next year.
"Performance is fleeting," she said.
"She's expert at creating searing images that endure well beyond the fleeting moment of the performance".
