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Susan A. Manning
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The Logic of Movement
A VANTE-GARDE. A hackneyed phrase but appropriate enough as a description of the Trisha Brown Company and its riveting three
Coy Characterizations
F OR THEIR AGASSIZ concert this past weekend, Jim and Lorry May chose five duets, all a certain sort of
Happy Feet
K IDS AND TEACHERS at East Somerville Community School performed an extraordinary dance last Saturday night. "May Day," choreographed by
Imaginative Scaffolding
S TUDENT CONCERTS are appropriate places for student critics, for the blunders of both young performers and reviewers can be
Knots and Bolts
T HESE LITTLE CONCERTS come out of nowhere. Steve Paxton, a member of the New York avant-garde dance circles for
Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur
N OT UNTIL curtain call on the second night, when choreographer Lar Lubovitch jumped forward to acknowledge the applause of
The Mind Is a Muscle
W ORK 1961-1973, a well-organized compilation of notes, essays and scripts by performer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer, is an extraordinary book. Piecing
dance
Reading the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times is usually a frustrating experience for dance lovers away
At the Still Point
I N THE MIDDLE of the concert I leaned over and whispered to a friend, "I still don't know what
Dance
In the late 18th century Bostonians arrived at the theater around 6 p.m. and stayed through a full-length production of
Inching Into Apparition
T HERE'S A LOT of missionary zeal in the dance world. Many dancers find themselves still fighting the battle Martha
Lines Almost Spoken
S PECTATORS ENTER the gym and head for the cluster of audience seated on the east bleachers, prompting Boston choreographer
Under the Magic L'antern
W HEN YOU FIRST see Nikolais Dance Theater, you're determined to see through the troupe's stunts. The company, appearing at
Dance
Hamakor. Israeli folk dance troupe. Sunday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m., MIT Kresge Auditorium. Students tickets $1.50. Impulse. A Boston-based
Dream Journeying
T HE IDEA OF evolving a work only for women sparked Education of the Girlchild , its creator Meredith Monk,
