Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow, it's seemed unnecessary to ask that question of dance. Movement has preserved its mystery longest; the essence of dance hasn't been cerebral, but corporeal. Leaps done with the legs, turns of the body--this sort of creation is uniquely sincere. Blake called touch the only unfallen sense. Dance is perhaps the only innocent...
...manipulation more threatening because it was unpredictable. For much of the piece, the "hero," an Adam figure, is carried frozen about the stage. A woman, the ordering spirit of the whirling white chaos, tries to activate this statue, in a reversal of the Pygmalion-Galatea myth of artistic creation. Her attemps to infuse him with life are frustrated by the score, the other dancers, all the externals. Only in a brief moment of silence, when the score ceases to beat messages, the dancers stop gyrating, do the two find each other and come together in harmonious movement. Choreographer Norman Morrice...
...work: Heide Tegeder (by far the best of the company), James Saunders, Svenbjorg Alexanders, and Ralf Harster. (Michael Molnar, an impressive statue, is too tight when asked to move.) The company's affinity for this ballet, however, goes beyond good dancing by the leads. Morrice's analysis of a creation manipulated by the forces of a consciousness (represented by the dancers), where spontaneity is possible for only an instant before everything dissolves into the confusion of introspection, is the perfect vehicle for the Forum, whose three works demonstrated their belief that imaginings of the mind supercede bodily imaginings...
...audiences as emphasize different aspects of his background. Before naval construction workers in Groton, Conn., he stresses his years in the Navy and his belief in "a strong, muscular defense." Before the B'nai B'rith in Washington, he notes that he and other Baptists consider the creation of Israel to be "the fulfillment of biblical prophecy." Speaking to farmers in Des Moines, he reminds them that he too is a farmer and urges an end to grain embargoes...
...real or imagined shortcomings. Seasoned officials are bawled out like village idiots, and there are no apologies later when it turns out that the fault was not theirs-and maybe was even Kissinger's. It is the price the aides pay, willingly enough, for being "present at the creation" with...