FLIGHT 18: The Cosmic Joyride

Flight 18 – The Cosmic Joyrideis just that. It’s a performance-art space trip through the universe performed by an attractive, lively cast of flight attendants (dancers, singers, actors) in the manner of a structured “Happening” from the ‘60’s. In the very large space at 3 Legged Dog Art and Technology Center at 80 Greenwich Street downtown, we are given boarding passes and enter the ship, which has huge screens on three sides and a cosmic disc jockey on the fourth. The Pilot (Matt Tennie – who designed and runs the terrific videos and soundscape) takes us off, and in the course of the 85-minute show there are hula hoops, bubble guns, flashing planets going by, we dance, we cavort, we have a helluva time as we zoom through the universe.

This is the wild and free imaginative brainchild of Eric Wallach, who, in his performing persona of Wally Bruce, is the Captain of this joyful flight. We are served water and fruit, we draw, we compose, we interact as sections of the trip unfold. Don’t go unless you want to have an exciting, free-form journey that will have you smiling and having fun for an hour and a half.