Pulling on Jersey club rhythms while constructing a dense bramble of jittery samples, tinny horns, and chattering tambourines, she creates the threat that the record might, at any moment, spiral into chaotic darkness, take a swan dive off toward the dingy depths on either side of the high wire.
A list of things I wish I'd known before taking on the high-wire work-baby balancing act.
There are an infinite number of walks on the wire, Petit tells us in "On the High Wire," the only one of his books available in English.
Admirable, too, are the trapeze artists the Flying Poemas; the Aguilar Brothers, dancing on the high wire; Tabayara Maluenda, doing a handstand while one of his white tigers leaps between his legs; the well-trained and handsome horses and zebras strutting their stuff in three rings; and, of course, Bello Nock.
* ARTS ON THE HIGH WIRE, Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, (212) 485-1534.
Each time we go up on the high wire, you know you can fall off.
But, all in all, I'd rather be quaking on the high wire than sipping a soda on the sidelines.
As his campaign manager, David Plouffe, put it last fall, "We are always better off on the high wire".
If both novelist and translator are performing on the high wire, things sometimes seem to fall out of balance.
