Anthem Salgado is a rare poet: He’s smart and educated enough to live up to his own lyrical gifts. Plenty of poets have one or two of those attributes; they’re intelligent, or well-read, or possessed of a true gift, and we salute them. Nothing wrong with that. But man, when you see all three, it’s beautiful. It’s also, in this case, funny as hell: A good example is Salgado’s online video of his song/monologue “Aphrodite Androphonos,” a nostalgic ode to the loss experienced at circumcision. He essentially calls the missing piece a superhero’s cape gone missing, and describes the action as a misguided antiterrorist mission. At the performance series “Me, Myself, and I,” he presents Bare Knuckle, a meditation on warriorness in the form of a spatial and sonic “mixtape.” Storyteller, MC, dancer, actor, musician, and tattooed hottie (Mr. Hyphen contestant 2007), Salgado can hardly call his performances just plain theater, or music, or dance. Thus, “mixtape” it is. Stick it in.
Nov. 19-Dec. 3, 7 p.m., 2009
