Housed in a former coal storage warehouse, the rambling, makeshift space has a corrugated fiberglass roof, communal picnic tables and a small stage where ponytailed flamenco guitarists and dancers give impromptu performances late into the night.
A black-clad burlesque dancer appeared impromptu, strutted, shimmied, and disappeared.
Mr. Ortega, working with four editors (Don Brochu, Brandon Key, Tim Patterson and Kevin Stitt), has punched the material into classic behind-the-scenes documentary shape, complete with teary testimonials from the show's demonstrably wowed dancers, the occasional impromptu moment and plenty of canned sentiment.
Another suggested: "Maybe Cameron could organise an impromptu photo shoot with Morris dancer to show Putin who is real man".
While in Argentina, John, an amateur ballroom dancer, falls in love with the tango after chancing upon a dance studio and later wandering into a club, where he befriends a family of dancers and receives some impromptu lessons.
As for Matta-Clark, he was helping to open a groundbreaking exhibition space at 112 Greene Street, turning an industrial-waste container on the street into a maze of makeshift closet-size rooms where invited dancers and artists did impromptu performances.
What place, barely two years after Hurricane Katrina, could provide streetcar rides and impromptu parades, riverboat calliopes and sidewalk tap dancers?
And an impromptu solo by Edward Morgan, the former Joffrey Ballet dancer who directs the troupe with Daniel Scott, made for serendipitous magic.
The new edition of performers and the charm of the artistic director Septime Webre were only exceeded by his impromptu Cuban salsa in sync with his Latin ballet dancers.
Sunbathers, in-line skaters, folk and ballroom dancers, tourists from every part of the globe, impromptu buskers, pet cats and dogs whose owners tote them around in baby carriages can turn up anywhere.
