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The latest offering from this astonishing underground troupe begins with individual performers walking up to a microphone center stage.
"You would see the performers walking about the institute in their magnificent costumes.
Clearly, performers walking into the rehearsal room past posters announcing that they were improvising a show called, say, Landing on the Moon – or even Grief – would inevitably be influenced by the words in their work.
This year several of those "Frieze Projects" have an element of performance, among them Annika Ström's "Ten Embarrassed Men," a group of 10 performers walking around the fair, being embarrassed, in the artist's conception, by the paltry representation of women in art fairs.
What follows is a procession of stage encounters that upend our expectation of who gets to be strong, tough, brave or capable in the circus, as Circa's female artists deconstruct their skeletons in midair, leap across poles wearing blindfolds, solve Rubik's cubes in the middle of multi-person balances and support male performers walking across their legs while they do the upside-down splits.
The corresponding video is actually not unlike the visuals for "The Coolest" -- both feature the performers walking around a city.
The earphones also carried a continuous electronic metronomic four-beat to keep all performers walking and moving in time with the music.
Of course, the Grammys is an awards show where costume dressing is encouraged, and we expect a certain level of individuality, creativity and daring from performers walking the red carpet.
The film slows down, however, to highlight smaller moments of urban life: bundled-up children playing in the park, old men laughing into the lens, and street performers walking home from work alongside corporate commuters.
Either way, the six figures — three-foot-tall marionettes manipulated by a group of stilt-walking performers — are literally overshadowed by the galumphing physical production that the puppet-theater company Phantom Limb (puppets by Erik Sanko, sets by Jessica Grindstaff) has concocted around them.
Lamb, the game's top performer, walking somewhat gingerly back to the locker room, said: "I just got these.
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