Walk Act: Olé!
Can anybody help with this task: is it called Walk-Act, Walking Act or just Walkact in one single word? For this essay we spell it Walk-Act and hope it fits for all… In general the term Walk-Act describes the act of walking. Do we use our scientific glasses, the Walk-Act signifies a special form of theatre-play, where the actors are situated among the audience. The actors of the Walk-Act are often just separated from the spectators by masks, costumes or stilts. Sometimes the Walk-Act-Performers act without any disguise. A very important element of the Walk-Act are frequent and spontaneous changes of locations, which gave this kind of performance its name Walk-Act.
Walk-Acts are very often seen in street-performances. The transitions between Comedy-Walk-Act or Artistic-Walk-Act are fluent. Nowadays the actors walk in many different ways: Walk-Act on stilts (like our Stilts-Walk-Act “Musketeers XXL”), Walk-Act on unicycles, Walk-Act in a perambulator and last but not least the Walk-Act in the true sense of the word – Walk-Act on foot. You can meet a Walk-Act wherever you might be. Back to the early years of the Middel Ages we can date the origin of the Walk-Act. Today there are only a few events where you wouldn’t find a Walk-Act.
How nice that the Walk-Act finds so many true followers – the Walk-Act expands our working-field a lot. It’s always a nice kind of entertainment, whether there are buskers, who show their Walk-Act or the musketeers, who enrich a gala-show with juggling while performing a Unicycle-Walk-Act. So we will not rest until our branch of Walk-Acts shines with a lot of new, different Walk-Act-Characters. Let’s look together into a new, bright future with tons of brilliant Walk-Act-Creations by Opus Furore!
