BB contributor Mark Dery points us to a lovely New York Time video and article about “Subway Ballet.” Mark says:
Like breakdancing, parkour, urban climbing, and Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the World Trade Towers, this is my idea of the inspired wedding of art, sport, and what Hakim Bey called “temporary autonomous zones”—brief-lived pockets of anarcho-carnivalesque resistance to…call it what you will: the daily grind, the status quo, the “unitary urbanism” imposed on city life by capitalism.