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December 21, 2007 |
Issue # 52 |
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Spiegelworld’s Absinthe Ready to
Wow the Beach
Acrobatics and Burlesque Converge in
Collins Park
By Leslie Pariseau
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Nate Cooper, a loose-limbed,
willowy jester who prefers frilly frocks to traditional garb, is one of the
performers in Spiegelworld’s Absinthe, the hot new show in Miami Beach’s
Collins Park Photo: Joan Marcus |
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Something is afoot in Collins Park. A tent resembling the
iconic circus big top has set up shop along the shores of Miami Beach. But the
striped canopy shows no signs of producing elephants balancing for peanuts,
tigers jumping through hoops or gaggles of foolish clowns— at least not the
conventional gaggle anyway. Inside, a mysterious world of mirrors and velvet
exists far from the buzz of Miami nightlife, but proves to be no less racy.
Spiegelworld has come to town, and it isn’t bringing a carnival sideshow with
it.
Coming hot off a three-month, record-breaking run in New
York, Spiegelworld is ready for a Miami debut. The show was previously located
at the South Street Seaport, a fittingly obscure theatre venue just adjacent to
the Brooklyn Bridge. For its Miami premier, the exotic theatre troupe presents
Absinthe, an acro-burlesque show, seeking to create an experience, rather
than a mere performance. The outlandish experience ensues within the luxurious
‘Spiegeltent’ (German for ‘tent of mirrors’), a spectacular den of shining teak,
antique brocade and, of course, mirrors. This near 100-year-old venue will
house an array of exotic acts, sexy beyond-flexible performers and bawdy stage
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It’s a bird! It’s a Plane!
It’s
Super Sexton!
South Beach Artist Puts the Magic
Back in
the Marvel Universe
By Penn Bullock
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Artist David Sexton, whose new
book, Mystic Arcana will be released December 26 |
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David
Sexton is a polymath, a man of many talents, and at the
root of them is a knack for storytelling. He attributes
this Homeric bent, in part, to his Irish descent. But
unlike a native Irishman, who might tell stories over a
pint at the pub, Sexton has made use of professional
media: comic books, theatre, Tarot, and drawings.
Sexton’s story starts in Columbus, Ohio, where he was
born. His childhood was a scatterplot of family
relocations: from Ohio to Texas, then to Tennessee,
Chicago, and Springfield, Illinois; then to Houston, and
finally to Waco. His father was the cause of this
peripatetic lifestyle. As a “turnaround man,” his job
was to revamp failing businesses across the country,
making him a sort of modern American frontiersman. As
Sexton put it, “After a year, if he did his job right,
he was out of his job.” |
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