Video: Bryant Park Performance: A Bad Good Skater
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New York. January. Bryant Park. Skating rink covered with snow. Dozens and hundreds of skaters went outside the fence so that the attendants could clean the ice. And only one ridiculous bearded man in a red sweater can't get out: his legs are ridiculously moving in different directions, and over and over again he falls right into the snow! This is how a fresh performance begins, presented by a restless band. Improv Everywhere.
People cannot resist, and openly make fun of the hapless skater. Finally, after another hard landing, a plump man in a red sweater straightens up. He was obviously tired of it. He uncertainly minces with disobedient feet on the ice, again almost falls, and then levels out. And then he … hangs on one leg. And he goes. Then he turns around, picks up the pace, and slides backwards, hands behind his back. His movements are more and more confident, faster and faster …
And in the background laughing merry fellows Charlie Todd, Matt Adams, Ethan Lercher and others. It was they who persuaded the vice-champion of Canada, honored figure skater, and executive director of figure skating at the Sky Rink in New York. Kenny Moira play the role of a slob on the ice!
And the inept, meanwhile, got a taste. He performs pirouettes and rushes in a circle to an unknown source of a solemn melody from Mozart; he makes half-turns in the air, confidently cuts the ice with the ribs of his skates, and drives up to the rink with incredible precision and evenness. There is a smile in the old champion's gray beard. He modestly closes the door behind him. And thousands of people who were spellbound with open mouths at this action from behind the fence and from the windows of nearby offices and supermarkets burst into whirlwinds, hail, a storm of applause, whistles and joyful shouts. Now they realized that miracles happen not only in fairy tales, and that the main miracle is the people themselves …
Catharsis. The performance is completed. The curtain is a roller cleaning machine.
Starring: Bad Good Skater - Kenny moir
Operators: Matt Adams, Keith Haskel, Chloe Smolkin, Lisa Nussbaum and etc.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Concerto for clarinet and orchestra", part II
Idea: Charlie Todd and Matt Adams, Ethan Lercher (Improv Everywhere)
And here is the movie itself.
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