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A fool's paradise/ In the performing arts, a nincompoop's natural medium is the stage
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Sure, there are literary fools - usually a sidekick such as Don
Quixote's Sancho Panza, or Tom Jones' Partridge - but it's tough to
make physical humor work on the page. And there's probably a village
idiot or two hanging out somewhere in the paintings of Flemish master
Jan Van Eyck, but a painting of someone slipping on a banana peel
just doesn't do justice to the real thing.
So, in the arts, the fool's natural medium is the stage, where
wit glitters and surprise stuns. Plus, nothin...
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TRUSS FUND
Santa Fe Reporter
; ... Miami. And so, while the majority of Wise Fool's troupe set out for the sunshine state, a smaller contingent traveled to Newport News, Va., where the manufacturers of the original truss agreed to supply the five missing sections to the tune of $5,000, maybe more ...
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Joining the CIRCUS
Albuquerque Journal
; Wise Fool group allows women to learn performance skills and stage a show In a nondescript warehouse on a recent weeknight, a woman played a plaintive song on a violin as a lithe aerial artist shimmied her way up a ribbon of royal-blue fabric hanging from the ceiling. It was a scene out of a
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CHANGES IN ATTITUDE,ALTITUDE 'Flexion' puts people on stilts in a re-examination of the human form and condition
Albuquerque Journal
; Shepherds from the Landes region of southern France watching their flocks and California farmers needing to prune and harvest their plum, peach and apricot trees are only some of the people around the world who have found stilts a valuable tool in the workplace. Stilt artist David Clarkson,
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From 'Ashes' of Despair, Hope Wise Fool production explores how we learn to connect with others
Albuquerque Journal
; Wise Fool New Mexico director and choreographer Deirdre Morris created the multimedia production "Ashes: The Alchemy of Hope" last fall as a work-in-progress that explores her perceptions of despair. Morris is a bit more optimistic about the future today. The current incarnation of the show, which
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Daring Young Girls Fly on the Trapeze ; Youthful aerialists will be featured at Wise Fool's 'Circus Luminous'
Albuquerque Journal
; By the time 10-year-old Magdalena Malone and 8-year-old Molly Malone began studying circus arts with Alessandra Ogren of Wise Fool New Mexico five years ago, the sisters were already familiar with the trapeze. A family friend gave one to their parents when Magdalena was an infant. "I have a lot of
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