Word: caged
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...most enduring contribution to the American musical. But classical dance was his true love, and in 1969 he turned his back on the commercial theater to devote himself solely to George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, for which he made a string of masterpieces--among them The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun, The Goldberg Variations and, above all, Dances at a Gathering, an hour-long garland of sometimes sentimental, sometimes intensely romantic dances set to music of Chopin--that secured his standing as America's first great native-born ballet choreographer...
...early ballets, Robbins favored clear-cut dramatic situations. "What really interests me," he said in 1958, "is the conduct of man, the rites he performs to face the mysteries of life." The Cage portrays a tribe of ferocious, insect-like women who kill the men with whom they mate; in Afternoon of a Faun, two dancers meet in a studio for a sensuous yet self-absorbed encounter that ends in an oddly tentative kiss. Later, Robbins adopted the plotless style of Balanchine, his mentor and idol, firmly denying that his new works were "about" anything but movement and music. Dancegoers...
Tcherepnin had a rich musical background. Born in Paris, he was the son and grandson of composers. He studied in Europe and worked with composers John Cage and David Tudor while living in San Francisco...
SNAKE EYES (Aug. 7). Since his Oscar turn in Leaving Las Vegas, all Nicolas Cage has done is star in three action films that each topped the $100 million mark and, for a romantic change of pace, made audiences believe in angels. So don't discount this Brian De Palma crime thriller...
...rest of our lives to go to LL Cool J concerts. But when else do students have the opportunity to throw themselves onto a giant wall of Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they been anywhere...