ACROBATIC POETRY AT MOVING SPIRITS GALLERY: Yup, that's two old people in tights at an art gallery reading poetry while one of them holds the other upside down. (Andisheh Nouraee)

BY ANDISHEH NOURAEE

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Tango in the night: There were more interesting art shows on Saturday night than I could cover without doppelgangers, so I flipped my mental coin and decided on the Visual Quartet show at Edgewood Avenue's Moving Spirits Gallery.

Of the pieces on display, my favorite was Barb Rehg's charcoal sketch of a woman holding her head as though she has a frustration headache. That pretty much sums up how I, and a lot of people I know, felt for most of last week. Before I could really take in any more of the art, though, somebody hollered for everyone in the gallery to be quiet and pay attention to the couple doing the tango. The couple, billed as Tango Anonymous, eventually tangoed their way out onto Edgewood, with gallery-goers blocking traffic so the couple could tango safely.

Soon, we were all back inside the gallery watching Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry. The group consisted of four people, two of whom appeared to be in their 70s, holding difficult acrobatic poses while one of them, a woman with a vaguely Middle European accent, read serious, often sad poetry about man's cruelty to man. Reading that description back to myself makes me laugh, but seeing it in person, it was very compelling.

andisheh@creativeloafing.com

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