I stood in front of one of the many impromptu stages – stood isn't quite right.
On-stage anger Babyshambles Singer Pete Doherty once fled a gig and refused to play after a fan gave him a wedgie during an impromptu stage dive.
As I strode on to the impromptu stage, I became aware of the crumhorn music slowing down and dropping in pitch.
One guest began skinny-dipping in the pool at 6 a.m. one day, and the pergola's picnic table has been an impromptu stage more than once.
There, we washed down perfectly cooked sea bream and spinach (£15) with bottles of Cairngorm Gold and peppery pinot noir, and settled in for the night as fiddles, guitars, drums and a double bass squeezed past us to an impromptu stage.
Although its star, Fred Astaire, can light up a Times Square arcade on his own power or turn Central Park into an impromptu stage for romance beneath a soundstage moon, the performer he plays is a has-been version of himself: middle-aged and prickly, with weariness threatening to overtake his ever-longer face.
Add that it was the final weekend of the show's 12-year Broadway run, and that these fans had won an online video contest to attend a party at the Life Café in the East Village, where that famous Act 1 scene is set, and it was little wonder that about midnight Friday, the fans spontaneously pushed the cafe's tables together, creating an impromptu stage.
Ballerina Ingrid Silva posted a video on Instagram on Sunday, in which a talented group of DTH dancers transform a moving walkway at the Pittsburgh International Airport into an impromptu stage.
It was here on these impromptu stages at the Harold Washington Library's YouMedia Center, Columbia College and elsewhere, under the tutelage of such community builders as the late "Brother Mike" Hawkins and Kevin Coval, that he found his voice, and attended workshops that helped him record his music — music that is now transforming contemporary hip-hop.
The performance, which involved a second actor, was an impromptu event staged in Seoul, which is also the setting for a video on view in the gallery's back space.
