Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Taylor Mac was unlike anything I have ever seen at Mass MoCA. I’ve seen other work-in-progress performances (Big Dance Theater and another Sundance Theater performance, I believe), but it was hard to believe that this particular performance was work in progress. The entire show was planned so beautifully and Taylor Mac, was so easily adaptable that, despite his claims of it not being a polished show, everything that happened on the stage seemed intentional and very fitting. It made all five hours all the more enjoyable. Mass MoCA Spring 2016 program book describes the performance as “strange music history” and “world’s wildest history lesson” and they are not wrong. The show is a part of what is going to be a 24-Decade History of Popular Music in New York, and consisted of the years 1836-1896. Although one decade was skipped (because of the lack of puppets…?), the show was wild from start to finish. I previously attended a dress rehearsal for two of the performed decades I was sure about what to expect from the other three; I was absolutely wrong. I hadn’t realized when attending the rehearsal that the show is focused on the political aspects of the time period and how they relate to everything today. An example of this was staging a popular dinner theater play that usually took on Chinese culture was then removed from that because we shouldn’t be taking and adapting other cultures. Instead, to prove a point, Taylor Mac made the dinner theater play take place on Mars.…

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Terrorizing countries across the world and killing innocent people is not the right course of action. Osama Bin Laden states that his main motive to terrorizes the United States is to take back what he believes was given to the Muslims in the Torah, Palestine. Osama Bin Laden lived in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Sudan, all of which are in the surrounding area of Palestine. Why attack the United States if palestine is right in your backyard? Attacking and terrorizing the United States…

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