You can have your Squiggles the Clown and Hondo the Magnificent. It takes a clown of bigger aspirations to dub himself Avner the Eccentric.
Avner Eisenberg is indeed a clown of eccentric tendencies, offering physical comedy, acts of audacious balancing and a mix of mime and illusion. Whatever it is, it’s fascinating to watch him do it.
Avner is, in addition to being an eccentric, a philosopher of performance who seems utterly at home putting on a show. Among his many “Eccentric Principles” you’ll find these: “[A] clown’s job is to make the audience feel things, and to get the audience to breathe.” And, “Everyone inhales, but many of us need to be reminded to exhale.”
Expect to need that reminder if you check out Avner—some of his feats in his show (dubbed Exceptions to Gravity) are breathtaking.
Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., free-$5, Springfield College Fuller Arts Center, 263 Alden St., Springfield,
(413) 748-3443.
