A Guy Named Renfield

FLUID MOVEMENT

My wife and I are performing with the Fluid Movement troupe again this year. They do incredibly fun performance art by taking a fairly straight piece of subject matter and giving it the most bizarre twist they can come up with. “It’s A Wonderful Species” is a water ballet that chronicles the story of Charles Darwin as he struggles with publishing his Origin of Species. We play Mexican wrestlers!

We performed it twice last weekend, barely beating the rain. We’ll be performing again this weekend, July 29 & 30 in Riverside Park in Federal Hill.

www.fluidmovement.org

What I love about Fluid Movement is hanging out with all the people they attracted to the troupe. This isn’t about professional acting, it’s about community involvement, and so anyone may perform regardless of ability or body type. It only takes a commitment to have fun, so you wind up with a lot of fun and interesting people. (Remind me to talk about the 48 Hour Film Project.) There are lawyers, teachers, artists, housewives, and people from all walks of life involved. One guy in our scene is a French physicist who is in this country doing his post-doctorate work. And the field he’s pursuing? Fluid Mechanics! We’re still not sure if he thinks this is just some sort of bizarre seminar…