On a cold night in Milwaukee high art meets pop culture as award winning choreographer Margo Sappington premieres her latest ballet, "Common People", set to the music of William Shatner and Ben Folds.
So, we have Shatner in his normal life... telling stories... then we set them to music by Ben Folds... and we add Henry Rollins... this already sounds pretty good, right? But wait! We then add some choreography to it, and we suddenly have a life story with punk music and ballet dancing. What the heck?
I really did appreciate the exposure of Shatner, the real Shatner. We all think of him as Captain Kirk, but this is a real human being with decades of stories and everyday things... and here are a few of those.
So, we have Shatner in his normal life... telling stories... then we set them to music by Ben Folds... and we add Henry Rollins... this already sounds pretty good, right? But wait! We then add some choreography to it, and we suddenly have a life story with punk music and ballet dancing. What the heck?
I really did appreciate the exposure of Shatner, the real Shatner. We all think of him as Captain Kirk, but this is a real human being with decades of stories and everyday things... and here are a few of those.