Word: chassler
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Boston has twenty or so resident modern companies, some no more than a few students from so-and-so's class, others dedicated troupes led by strong choreographers. The most original tend to be Betty Fain (October 9-10), Deborah Chassler (December 3-5) and New England Dinosaur (watch for them next spring and in the me time check out avant-garde music events at the Dinosur Annex...
...course, an accident, but the inspiration of Sey Chassler, 56, editor in chief of Redbook. After state equal rights amendments went down to defeat in New York and New Jersey last November, Chassler got on the phone and set up a meeting with the editors of Ms., McCall's, Woman's Day, Glamour and Cosmopolitan to discuss running stories on the ERA timed for the Bicentennial. The group then wrote the editors at other women's magazines asking them to join the effort. Even Chassler was impressed by the concerted response in print. Says he: "Most...
...point in her solo she bounds around the room holding her closely-cupped hands tight to her side. She has a secret hidden there. Chassler dances close to her private self without consciously externalizing her self. She tells us little, speaking so softly that we thrill to hear...
Like the minimalist sculptors, Chassler's a reductionist, calculating how much she can cut away and still call her work dance. It's almost a game, playful and mischievous, simple and literal. Chassler runs, tumbles, turns; what more simple movement is there? The first section of "Calling Out" requires the dancers to give up their weight to one another: what more literal approach to group improvisation can be imagined...
...guts of Chassler's work aren't simple or literal at all--neither formal exploration for its own sake nor defiant nose-thumbing for its. Does "romantic minimalism" make any sense of a literal approach and non-literal content? How Chassler dances is nothing except straight-forward; what she dances is everything...