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.
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).
Tchotchke Follies
2000
Tchotchke Follies reinterpreted some of the greatest moments of stage and screen as a puppet show for adults. This production featured a cast of salt and pepper shaker stars in elaborate miniature sets. Fluid Movement brought knick-knacks to life in moments of high drama, pathos, and comedy. The greats of early film and vaudeville were paid loving tribute… Al Jolson? Fanny Brice? The Ziegfield Girls? Yes, and more!
Tchotchke Follies was staged at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, and complimented the Tchotchkes! Treasures of the Family Museum exhibition at the museum.
Hoe-Down in Hades
Fluid Movement interpreted the classical Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a Country-Western dance performance. The swirling chaos of Hades was recreated as a square-dance complete with rustling petticoats, tapping cowboy boots, and demon’s horns (or were those longhorns?). In the myth Orpheus, the noble Greek musician, travels to the underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice from the clutches of Pluto. Orpheus is challenged and tried at every twist and turn.
Hoe-Down in Hades was originally commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum, and was performed May 6, 2000 in Wilmington, Delaware. Hoe-Down in Hades made its Baltimore debut at the Artscape festival on July 22nd and 23rd, 2000.
Poe on Wheels: The Masque of the Red Death
Halloween 1999
Following right on the heels of our swimming success, Fluid Movement organized a Halloween show based on writing by Baltimore’s favorite morbid bard, Edgar Allen Poe. The performance was based upon The Masque of the Red Death, in which a group of decadent, wealthy people, as yet untouched by a plague spread by rats, gather for a masquerade ball to celebrate their good fortune. In the end of course, an uninvited guest spoils their fun. In this case Death arrives at Patterson Park’s Pulaski Monument on a skateboard.
Carmen, A Hotdog Opera
Summer 1999
“I didn’t know meat could emote like that!“
Baltimore City Paper
This version of Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen, was performed on a puppet stage by elaborately dressed tofu hotdogs. The fifteen minute performance told the story of a seductive gypsy who whooed the wrong dog. After enchanting the mentally unstable Don José, Carmen fell in love with the impressive torreador, Escamillo. When Don José flew into a jealous rage, he stabbed Carmen to death with a fork as gypsies and soldiers stood by. Fluid Movement’s elaborate little performance was shown in four venues and received the City Paper’s vote for the Best Artscape Event for 1999.