I sat in an open white room at the Museum of Modern Art with over two hundred people, all of whom had been waiting for Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On to begin. All of a sudden “Come Together” by the Beatles started playing through the speakers on the side while people from the crowd took to the stage. Twenty performers in street clothing lined up and looked out to the audience for the rest of the song.

The performance consisted of multiple songs and with each song came a new dance number. The next song played was  “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie and for the next part, whenever it got to the chorus, all the performers would  start dancing.

All the dancers looked like everyday people. They consisted of multiple different ages; and one young boy, the youngest dancer,  looked about fourteen. One performer also had a bigger body type then the rest. Overall they had definitely made an effort to include a wide range of people.

At one point all of the men left the stage except for one. He and the ten other women stayed and danced to “Ballerina Girl” by Lionel Richie. They moved robotically but still conveyed elegance at the same time.

For the finale all the performers took out their ipods and waited to press “play” until the sound technician conducted them to do so. Once they started, they sang the first line of the chorus of whichever song they had been listening to. It all happened simultaneously until a song would end and they would exit the stage. It came down to the two men who stood upstage. One of them sang “I’ve got the power” while the other answered with “I’m still standing.” In the end “I’m still standing” won out and the other man left the stage.

The whole performance had me wanting to get up and join them. Each dance move was so familiar to everyday styles, which made it easy to relate to. I left the museum with a smile on my face and with words from the songs stuck in my head.