Postcards from the Deep End: The Flurry Family Vacation
Water Ballet 2005
Follow Baltimore’s Flurry Family’s disastrous summer car trip to Vegas! Forced to spend hours in a car together, the family embarks on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing and often surreal trip down memory lane…recounting some of their personal favorite summer vacations- all told with Fluid Movement’s trademark swimming, dancing, glittery style!
Earth, Wind and the Baltimore Fire
August 2004, Patterson Park
Fluid Movement heated up the 100th anniversary of the Baltimore Fire, recasting the conflagration as a funktastic flamenco-flavored fantasy.
Our very historical version of the famous blaze featured flamenco-ing flames, tangoing dancers with fans of fire, wee waterdrops from the Baltimore City Carrera Program, and Fluid Movement’s trademark campy fun.
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BUGS Circus
February 2004
In partnership with Living Classrooms Foundation’s BUGS After School Program with assistance from Ringling trained clown, Greg May, Fluid Movement staged an insect-themed circus show with 40 inner city 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students.
This adorable and talented cast acted out such parts as praying mantises on stilts, jumproping flies about to be caught in a spider’s web, dung beetles on rolling globes, juggling fireflies in glowing black light and a troupe of clowning bumble bees! The show helped raise money for Baltimore Family Services’ Emergency Shelter.
Go-Go Pirate Show
June 2003
Ahoy! FM’s elaborate interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Treasure Island, was staged aboard the historice USS Constellation in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor with live original music by The Landlubbers (Snackie Hillman and Eddie Chabot) and go-go dance instruction provided by The World Famous Pontani Sisters. Our mod take on the literary classic recounts the tale of Long Johns Silver organizing a mutiny in order to plunder island treasure for himself. Tables turn, songs are sung, dances are danced and good triumphs in the end, with everyone learning a valuable lesson and Ben Gunn being reunited with his oft-fantasized-of-snack-food: American Cheese.
1001 Freudian Nights: A Biography in Bellydance
2002
In 1939, Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, committed physician-assisted suicide after a long battle with mouth cancer. Our performance is what might have flashed through his mind before the final, lethal dose of morphine sent him into that long goodnight.
Nessie on Wheels: The Legend of the Loch Ness Monster
October 2001
Fluid Movement’s third creepy, extravagant, outdoor, roller skating production rolled into Patterson Park to the delight of hundreds of audience members! The eerie show explored the enduring myth of Nessie, Scotland’s infamous monster of the Loch.
Cirque L’Amour
Water Ballet 2001
Cirque De L’Amour tells the tale of Frenchie the wistful clown, who finds herself dreaming of the glamorous life - away from the tired, grumpy clowns. Frenchie’s dream of glamour comes true as she saves Guy de Lyon when his lion-taming act runs amok.
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Romancing the Cones
2001
Fluid Movement was commissioned to perform “Romancing the Cones“ on the occassion of the grand reopening of the world famous Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Early in the 20th century, two Baltimore sisters—Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone—selected one of the most important art collections in the world. They visited the Paris studios of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and acquired an exceptional collection of art, which they displayed in their Baltimore apartments. In “Romancing the Cones“ Dr Claribel and Miss Etta Cone are led by Henri Matisse into a colorful world of art. Paintings come to life and appear before their very eyes, bringing delight, movement, smiles, and intellectual satsifaction.
Frankenstein on Wheels
October 2000
On Halloween weekend, Fluid Movement entertained over 1,300 spectators with its roller skating extravaganza, “Frankenstein on Wheels,“ a zany interpretation of Mary Shelly’s gothic novel about a science experiment gone awry (very, very awry).
Cleopatra, Life on the Nile
Water Ballet 2000
“Take three Roman soldiers in inner tubes, one Cleopatra Queen of the Nile in swim goggles, a cast of 40 in glittering sequined costumes and some elaborate sets with palm trees, crocodiles and hippos. Now add chlorinated water and you’ve got all the ingredients for Cleopatra: Life on the Nile...”
- Wendi Kaufman, The Washington Post