Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lubovitch works with a similar sort of gesture in Stravinsky's "Les Noces"--highly specific, mimetic gesture, yet abstract, interesting as pure form. Ignoring the abbreviated libretto Stravinsky wrote with Bronislava Nijinska for the 1923 Diaghilev premiere, the choreographer presents instead his own vision of a Russian peasant rite, an innocent bride and shy groom, their anxious yet wise parents, and high-spirited friends. In a recent interview Lubovitch explained...
...wonder is not simply that he has persisted so obsessively at such a self-defeating task. Nor that he abandoned his native English for French and then set about retranslating himself. Most astonishing is the volume of high comedy and pathos he has managed to squeeze from his abstract principles...
...numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that it was created "during a deadly dull meeting of the President's Commission on Productivity...
...chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice of a long dead time and place, but the patterns, colors and shapes in which it is realized are those of abstract art; the movements are modern dance...
...closed staff meetings describe "an intellectualized approach to moral values." The Secretary would argue, "Why berate our friends? We cannot choose our allies, we must make the best of them." He justified the use of secret means for what he believed to be higher moral ends, "not abstract principles but elements of national survival...