Dancing in tongues.

Known as our only dancing philosopher, Kenneth King gave a rare performance at the Danspace Project last December. His buoyant prancing, animal alertness, cartoon hand gestures, and a certain, shall we say, postmodern enchantment remind us that he is simply, divinely, himself. In a mischievous synergy between words and motion, he alternated his delightfully devilish tongue twisters with strange voices that came through him--chanting, warning, scolding, pontificating. His rendition of the Crystals's song "He's a Rebel," in which he battles the air (performed only partly with tongue in cheek), was priceless. The performance, which marked the publication of his book Writing in Motion: Body-Language--Technology (published by Wesleyan University Press), was assisted by octogenarian sorceress Frances Alenikoff, another fascinating voice-and-movement performer.