In 1969, Bowie formed his own mime troupe, Feathers, as well as an experimental art ensemble.
But when he opens the front door, reality falls away, and the paranoid delusions of his guilty subconscious take over, in the form of a troupe of shadowy, tap-dancing gangsters.
That sounds like a successful career, yet in 2011 Ms. Lang circled back to her original idea, forming Jessica Lang Dance, a troupe of her own that makes its New York debut on Aug. 16 at the Joyce Theater as part of the new Ballet v6.0 festival.
A few miles away, in the main plaza of the University of Havana, about 200 students of all colors form a circle around a troupe of dancers.
Into the chaos, the fumbling in the dark, an order is imposed as people form circles around performers, a troupe of acrobats, jugglers and escape artists, a comedian, a group of musicians, a story-teller... this is trial by public jury: if the performance falls flat, the tricks fail to amuse or the stories to amaze, the crowds move on.
So how will he use his newfound fame? Brown wants to form a "repertory troupe" of actors who could work on projects together.
Their initial idea was to form a troupe that would take an innovative approach to classic plays.
Also there's something really great about momentarily forming a troupe with people.
Earlier this season a troupe of the club's players did a free-form revue on Broadway called "From the Second City".
