Street Songs

STREET SONGS is a 1966 performance in France of a section of the Living Theaters Mysteries and Smaller Pieces Based on a chancedetermined scenario written by Jackson Maclow in 1961 STREET SONGS weaves militant political chants into a mandala of mantras Julian Becvk sits cross legged on an empty stage the slogan he repeats Free All Men Ban the Bomb Stop the War Free the Blacks Change the World are both meditation and calls to action as a crowd of voices answers each slogan and actors join him on stage to pace in a circle clasp one anothers shoulders and collectively breath Ohmm Sally Banes Village Voice October 18 1983