Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paula Weideger implies that Jewish mothers pass on "self-hatred and worthlessness" by slapping the face of the daughter at the onset of menstruation. Actually, this practice, part of a rich folklore, is designed to restore color (blood) to the cheeks of the menstruating girl and has nothing to do with self-deprecating, debasing or shameful beliefs...
...actually drier than at the onset of the great drought of '34. Starved for moisture, the rich topsoil in hard-hit areas of the Great Plains is turning into a fine brown silt. Winds hurl the dust particles against the still-growing sprouts, until they lose their color...
...Naipaul describes this island, Roche's message is borne out. The only way to capture this world is to record the numberless pink hazes, scorched and wrinkled hills, red blankets of bauxite dust, and even the stained bedsheets--all changing from moment to moment. And by tirelessly splashing his colors upon human beings, too, Naipaul smears identities in a way that drives home the ambiguity of this place. A British white woman has a color not at all like that "of local white people"; when Peter Roche grins, his pleasant demeanor is destroyed by the black roots of his molars...
WHEN YOU FIRST see Nikolais Dance Theater, you're determined to see through the troupe's stunts. The company, appearing at Brandeis this past weekend, stages a magic lantern show: one minute the proscenium is an expanse of bold color stripes, the next a field of white pin-points of light. Even when you remind yourself that it's all stagecraft, you're still astounded--it's hard to believe that one man, Alvin Nikolais, could choreograph score, costume and light such intricate theater works...
...same way, but with smaller-than life, stylized projections of the dancers--non-skeletons, Klee-like stick figures. The dancers improvise as a group with the sounds of arguing-laughing and laughing-crying. They're cut short again and again as striking visual patterns of light and color distort their figures beyond recognition. They become once more mere props in a theatrical fantasy...