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PICKS OF
THE WEEK
Friday May
28
The Mutaytor
Employing
50 different drums culled from four continents, the Mutaytor’s thundering
tribal-techno music offers a serious assault. So why would these earplug ambassadors be asked to
perform for 2,500 students at Gallaudet University, the nation’s largest
school for the deaf? Well, as
impressive as the Mutaytor’s Blue Man Group meets Venice-drum-circle
percussion-palooza is, the accompanying visual spectacle is the real show. Featuring an incredible array of
sensual modern dancers, sword-swallowers, aerial acrobats, fiery hula-hoop
swingers and all manner of fire-breathers and flamethrowers, the Mutaytor
is less a Cirque du Soleil and more of a Cirque en Soleil. After you witness Dr. Megavolt
flirt with a tesla coil that’s producing 1.3 million volts of electricity –
enough to fry an elephant, much less a man – you’ll understand what I
mean. But don’t worry. When I say these guys are on fire,
I just mean they’re hot. (Liam Gowing)
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