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Show Gregg Goldston: Artistry Out Of Thin Air next opportunity. I sincerely hope that he will perform again in Utah in the near future. V ' .. . ?- 1 v -.1 ? - -- - v ' - " ;i ' J . - s '5 .-- by Jacquee Steinau Just how far can you go on S5? If you spend it on gas you could probably cruise to Salt Lake and back; if, however, you spend it on a Gregg Goldston' performance you could go cross-country skiing, ski-ing, travel to France, climb a mountain, and experience the human sou). Now this is quite a deal when you consider the benefits: you don't have to exercise or get cold, you won't get jet lag. and all the educational parts are completely painless. The entertainment begins simultaneously simul-taneously with the show. Does this sound like just the thing for you? Well, unfortunately unfortu-nately Goldston has come and gone but we can hope that he will some day return. Goldston, the man who established the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Mime Alliance, displayed display-ed his talent at the Silver Wheel Theater last Friday night. To say his performance perform-ance was brilliant is certainly an understatement. Although Al-though the program lagged in one (or possibly two) spots, I left the theater enthusiastically charmed bv this amazing mime artist. Goldston's profound in-sight, in-sight, his timing, and his sense of the comical, kept the audience dynamically; interested and thoroughly amused. In addition to making a serious contribution contribut-ion to his art, Goldston is a very funny man. I laughed until my jaws ached. The evening began with "A Mime's Magic". Gradually Goldston introduced us to the world of silent communication; communi-cation; some may have thought this a slow start. I believe the artist was giving us time to get comfortable with him and to begin the training of our eye, so to speak. By the time "A Mime's Magic" ended we were ready and able to understand all of the humorous humo-rous activity in "Cross Country Skiing". An entire universe of the mind became magically alive before our eyes; we saw a castle, a tennis racket, and a guillotine as clearly as we saw the stage. We had an opportunity to experience mime as a living, growing art. One piece, for example, was still "in the rouyh": wc witnessed the artist cut and polish yet another facet to bring out the brillance. The high' point of the program ,was an untitled piece; the only prop, a black umbrella. Here Goldston entered the realm of genius: I will swear to my dying day that if he let go of the darned thing it would have sailed right up to the ceiling. We weren't dealing with a mere windstorm here. It was definitely a gravity-defying umbrella and I have a theory that Mary Poppins was mugged to acquire it. This portion of the show alone was worth every penny of my $5 ticket. Friday night's performance was Goldston's last in Utah. His Gregg Goldston School for Mimes, to be held in August this year, will now reside out of state. Any mimes with performing ex- perience (a definite requirement require-ment should contact the Rocky Mountain Mime Alliance Alli-ance soon. An,;'evening with Gregg Goldston is a rare treasure thai cannot be stolen. May I urge vou' to sec him at the Mime artist Gregg Goldston Gold-ston performed in the streets last Friday prior to his show in the Silver Wheel Theater thai evening. |