Word: borge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard senior Andrew Borg presented "Between Two Moons," his thesis-in-progress for Visual Studies. (Its final performance will be May 7-9 with the Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Company). Huddled in heavy army-green overcoats, Borg and dancers Nancy Compton and Kat Fischer enter and traverse the dimly-lit space, establishing characters through their idiosyncratic gaits: Compton inches forward, Borg sneaks backwards, and Fischer steals sideways. They turn sharply and skulk towards the audience--sputtering, chortling, swallowing shrill screams -- then disappear into the wings. The three return, this time with overcoats hunched up over their heads, and pick up the stealthy...
...Borg builds quickly and economically to this image, then unhurriedly works away from it, first shifting his emphasis from object to character, then from character to performer. Stripping the trio of their cloaks and masks, Borg leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...
...that his work with masks and body-distorting props in the early fifties allowed him and his dancers to lose their self-conscious mannerisms and to gain access to a deeper source of movement-imagination. It seems that using overcoats and simple face masks has done the same for Borg. In his piece in the Harvard/Radcliffe workshop performance last February, "Shadowlight," he seemed to reach for a dramatic depth that wasn't there. With "Between Two Moons" Borg has found that depth, the well-springs for a drama surreal and otherworldly...
Where is all the dance energy rushing then? One place is MIT this weekend where students from nine New England colleges will perform mostly original modern works in the first College Dance Festival. Harvard's Andy Borg will present his thesis, Between Two Moons, a story of harlequins set to electronic music. All performances are on Saturday, April 24 at MIT's Dupont Gymnasium at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $1. On Sunday there will be workshops on topics like dance notation and support for the arts beginning at 1:30 in the gymnasium...
Also receiving credit is Andrew Borg '76, whose senior thesis in Visual and Environmental Studies is the creation and choreography of a dance program...