Basketball

Remembering David Maas: One half of NBA halftime staple ‘Quick Change’


On the night David Maas and Dania Kaseeva first performed for sports fans, Maas felt uneasy. They were circus performers; this was basketball. Their act — the art of quick change, or split-second, lightning-fast costume changes — was different, not exactly aligned with the culture of pick-and-rolls and fast breaks.

“They were both scared,” said Wayne Hoffman, their agent and manager. “They didn’t know.”

They had flown into Seattle, arrived at Key Arena, and prepared to perform at halftime of a Supersonics game. It was 1996. Seven and a half minutes later — after Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp had retreated to the locker room, after the transformations commenced, after the crowd offered a standing ovation — Maas and Kaseeva had a realization: They’d found their audience.

“We had no idea how a sports audience would receive us,” Maas once said. “We were halfway through our act and I could…





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