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QUOTE OF NOTE: "We should not be so distressed about the geometric correctness or abstract value of a congressional district, but instead glory in our ability to fashion peaceful and tolerable remedies to one of our longstanding social ills...
Stieglitz's own work appears here in a range from his early, somewhat ethereal views of New York City streets to his more abstract works in later life, which center around nature studies at his home on Lake George. Besides providing pleasingly varied conceptions of physical and environmental beauty, such a selection allows one to tend toward a long-range view of Stieglitz's experience of life: moving into and out of gritty, urban portraits, towards more pacific, introspective works looking skywards...
...later abstract works, the "Equivalents" (1929), provide a cushy counterpoint to such harder, clearly delineated concrete scenes. In a sense, Stieglitz taps into the age-old game of lying in the grass and picking out shapes in the sky, but with a deeper, vaguely solemn intent, as if to part the layers of nimbus and cumulus. His progression from works clearly grounded in the straightforward city to such abstraction in a sense reflects Stieglitz's attempts to broaden the "purpose" of photography...
...character in a "running series of catastrophic cameos." Whether he is bouncing around the stage, dancing to James Bond music or pretending to be narrowly missed by a speeding train, Russell shines in these consistently disjointed episodes. These 30-second, slap-stick moments, breaking up the longer, more abstract dance scenes, remind the audience that above all, "Snappy Crayons" is supposed...
...Snappy Crayons and Other Dances" succeeds because it is a fresh take on modern dance, stripping the genre of its over-abstract qualities and restoring a more basic, natural humor. The audience seems to respond easily to the pure fun of watching the antics of Whiteside and his cast, and is won over by both the relaxed nature of the performers and their physical skill and control. Hopefully the success of "Snappy Crayons" will inspire this alumnus of both Ringling Bros. and Harvard University to further dance/theater adventures...