Word: canter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horsing around is what this production does best. The actors canter across the stage, flicking their whip-like tails, singing the chorus to this fable. The choreography is simple yet creative, setting the tone and changing the scene for each part of the tale...
...event's first day was devoted to the stylized art of dressage, in which the rider, using reins and pressure from his legs, guides his horse through intricate maneuvers ("Serpentine three loops, the first and the third at canter, the second counter-canter ..."). Davidson kept Might Tango under control: "I had to hold him back and keep him from exploding." And although the young horse lacked "precision," as the experts say, he still did well enough to finish eleventh...
Brooks had the shrewdness and good taste to cast not only Hackman but the excellent, sardonic James Coburn as his buddy and friendly rival. After that, in spiration fails. Pace, so crucial to un dertakings of this kind, is maintained at the approximate speed of a lazy canter. Characters race a piece, dismount, talk things over, get to know each other a little, then start racing again. No one, however, becomes either familiar enough or real enough to make it a matter of much concern who wins the race...
...horse that everyone was focusing on was going through a series of trots and halts. I fumbled through my Ledyard '75 (the official name of the trials) handbook: move number 14, "serpentine three loops, the first and third true canter, the second counter-canter." Counter-canter, I thought sort of a ring to it, but what does it mean...
CHUL Representative; Lowell House Women's Group; R-H Women's Canter; Junior Day Committee; Vice President, Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Harvard Dramatic Club...