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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...
...most-finished works on the dance festival program took an entirely different tack from Borg's. "Five Aces" by Joyce Morgenroth, guest choreographer for a company from the Five Colleges, and "1-2-3-4-5-6" by Judy Chaffee Black, a BU faculty member, aimed only at being worldly, everyday, even mundane. Both choreographers dressed their dancers in athletic garb and set their work-outs against classical music...
...surprising that New England colleges haven't gathered before to recognize student choreography and performance. A glance at the back of the program--"MIT Women's Athletics Presents:"--might tell why. Students there and here at Harvard have some overdue battles to fight, and it seems Andrew Borg has just clinched the first...