Everyone, In The Ring

Another in our series The Fabric of Regard

This fearless torero of Theatre of the Actors of Regard shows to those assembled a sequence of muleta capes.



As she calls the Name of each...
     Carmine Monochrome!
         
...the assembly responds.
     Toro! 

She holds the cape to the wall. 
       
No one knows for how long. 
       
It is understood : this is

The Fabric of Regard

Then, when she will, she flings that cape aside.
     Ole!

Now, as pictured above, another :
     Yellow Monochrome!

The response is fierce.
     Toro!
      
It is understood : this is
      
The Fabric of Regard

    

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This same TAR torero troupe recently presented an Australia Day action in Vienna : 
'Blood on the Wattle', after the poem by Henry Lawson, 'Freedom on the Wallaby'. It ends...

So we must fly a rebel flag,
As others did before us,
And we must sing a rebel song
And join in rebel chorus.

We'll make the tyrants feel the sting
O' those that they would throttle;
They needn't say the fault is ours
If blood should stain the wattle!

      

Not surprisingly, in that old nest of Actionists, they were very well received. They got as good as they gave.

For this event, there was just one cape :
    Wattle Yellow Monochrome!

It didn't take long for the fyrest 'bull' to charge head-first out of the pack.  Ooooooooooh! 
      
     Toro!

A very long night. Blood on the wattle, blood on the wall.

    
The Fabric of Regard

  

          

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Before returning to Oz, the troupe accepted an invitation to share their muleta pass and non-pass practice with some young French toreador apprentices in the ring at Garons, near Nimes.

     Toro!

Happy days, happy days.

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

someone looks at something ...
 

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