The Washington Post, February 26th, 1993
THOUGH performance artist Claire Porter's monologue-vignettes involve spare - if telling - movement and copious humor, she thinks of herself more as a dancer than a comedienne. "I don't intend to be funny," she says from her home in Teaneck, N.J. "I start with a situation. I develop movement material and a kind of person emerges." One of Porter's more madcap portrayals - on view in her solo production, "Portables," this weekend at George Mason University - is that of a fitness instructor whose workout concerns not the body's outer form but the inner chemical reactions and more intangible proc...
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