Performance Art Museum

In our polite era of museum-going, with millions of docile tourists gliding through galleries on a curated global quest for cultural osmosis, the kind of interruption “Ubu Revisited: Essential Poetry 1-BU” offered was energizing.

There is stomping, sauntering, and twirling, sudden falling to the ground. Some gestures are elegant and careful; others are jerky and abrupt.

It is a test of tradition and a public display of vulnerability, where the limits of training become visible in real time.