Steve Seaberg (from top), Ronnog Seaberg and Mark Wolfe

Fear not the feminine
Three things you shouldn't be afraid of at EstroFest (and one that maybe you should)

BY THOMAS BELL

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Poetic acrobatics

They've lived in Atlanta for 34 years, but that's less than half a lifetime for the seventysomething performing duo of Ronnog and Steve Seaberg, who are joined by Atlanta photographer and acrobat Mark Wolfe for their EstroFest show.

For the past several years, these multidisciplinary artists have been making a name for themselves as "acrobatic poets." That's not a metaphorical concept involving excessive diphthongs and iambic duodecameter. The Seabergs (and now Wolfe, too) create body sculptures with a series of interlocked acrobatic poses, while Ronnog recites her poems.

Often they perform in the nude. "We are very interested in the human body," Ronnog says. "The human body at different generations is something worth considering and most real ... . To forbid the body is some sort of self-sacrifice."

"Their poses are always really serene," says Donovan, "but the words are intended to shake you up." Words like, "I am here!/... I am a fossil/from residue in a tear./Longing for order and fear/of God, at least of a man/ordering peace into each peapod/policing by rod and ban." This from "Integrity," which the trio will perform along with "Life is a Joke."

Fri., April 16, at 7:30 p.m.

Thomas.bell@creativeloafing.com

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