Live: Laurie Anderson Brings Her Delusion To BAM  laurie
anderson rain.jpg Laurie Anderson BAM/Harvey Theater Tuesday,
September 21    Such as: She's on a talk show to promote a book
she doesn't remember writing. She's served penguin in a
restaurant. There is an unfinished cheese sculpture of a set of
stairs in the middle of her loft. A company approaches her about
digitizing her archives and storing them in living plants. She
is suddenly terribly self-conscious about her "clown nose." And
so on. This from a running series of bizarre vignettes, some
available on CD via this year's excellent Homeland, delivered
between bursts of avant-garde electro-dirge, Anderson sawing her
electric violin and backed by two guys on viola and various
ornate horns, respectively, mostly cast in silhouette. The stage
is sparse, an enormous video screen behind her and two smaller
ones flanking her, along with a weird projected blob/loveseat
she rests on occasionally as she alternately calms us down and
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