Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing an audience for dance concerts has never been a problem, Mallardi pointed out. She feels that offering credit for courses in the Dance Program in composition and performance production, as well as the hiring of someone to lift the burden of production off the students and off Mallardi herself, who has only a part-time appointment, would go far towards solving the problem. Mallardi also noted that dance at Harvard is in an especially difficult position. "All the other artistic activities are isolated blocks of time. A dance concert, where the original work is done by each student, involves...
...focusing; the whole point of it is exorcism, catharsis, discovery." An especially important aspect for Fine has been the experience of choreography: "All sorts of sources feed dance, and almost everything has its distinctive way of moving." The solo he has choreographed for himself in the upcoming concert was inspired by the motion of a newspaper blowing down the street...
THESE LITTLE CONCERTS come out of nowhere. Steve Paxton, a member of the New York avant-garde dance circles for the last 15 years, has worked with a Boston friend for much of that, and so it happened that he got together with a local acquaintance, percussionist David Moss, for a recent concert at the King School on Putnam...
...quiet rising tone, his voice gently concluding the dance phrase (or perhaps shyly inviting friends home), "I think there's some cider." He turns, a reserved host, slips on his sandals and walks off upstage. Those watching aren't sure if it's intermission or if the concert's over, but soon someone passes the right word, and everyone stands to stretch and stroll over to inspect the array of unusual percussion instruments...
...music comes last in this review and it shouldn't, for this concert is a collaboration of two soloists. David Moss's collection of instruments is highly visual as well as audible, some hung from a metal frame: drums, gongs, warped cymbals, pot covers, a Chinese zither. Further downstage stand three sonic sculptures: clusters of metal rods placed on hollow blocks which sound otherworldly when stroked or bowed. And Moss makes vocal sounds too: I thought he was just clearing his throat and settling into his funhouse of instruments before I realized the concert had begun. Paxton joins Moss...