Despite its name, Fluid Movement doesn't limit itself to water ballets. The group's second annual major performance might be an opera performed on wheeled skates - one recent such extravaganza was dubbed Easy Roller. Another explored the heretofore-unsuspected roots of psychoanalysis in a belly-dancing show called 1001 Freudian Nights.
"Ideas rise from the group. Someone will say, 'We really should do something with singing sausages,' " Twenter says, "and we go on from there."
Meanwhile, back at the gulag, a half-dozen Russian prisoners on a chain gang are swinging foam pickaxes to the accompaniment of speakers blaring a song from the musical Annie.
FOR THE RECORD - An article in Thursday's editions on the art troupe Fluid Movement mistakenly stated the name of Valarie Perez-Schere's former employer. When she got involved with Fluid Movement, she worked for the Patterson Park Community Development Corp. The Baltimore Sun regrets the errors.
"It's a hard-knock life," the prisoners sing, before discarding their pickaxes and diving into the water. As they swim into a circle, each performer briefly lifts one hairy leg skyward.
Talk about aquanuts.
If you go Strange Customs: The Flurry Family Odyssey runs at Riverside Pool Park, 1800 Covington St., at 5 p.m., 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The show will be performed at Patterson Park Pool, 27 S. Patterson Park Ave. at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1 and at 5 p.m., 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2. Tickets cost $10 for the show. The gala costs $30 and $10 for children younger than 10. Buy them at brownpapertickets.com.
