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Boston Ballet's dazzling new ensemble, "American Festival I," features three of America's premier modern dance choreographers: Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...
Commenting on the company's two-part tribute to American dance, Artistic Director Bruce Marks noted: "The message is the movement, with the idea that all movement is dance." Indeed, the trio of works is unified by its defiance of convention. Cunningham's "Breakers" features dancers in sharp and unpredictable poses, arms, legs and torsos working in stark juxtaposition. In "Company B," Taylor evokes the swing era of the 1940s, while poking fun at characteristic swing moves with its frantically shifting pace. Tharp's "In the Upper Room" combines modern, classical, even aerobic dance elements with exhiliarating boldness and energy...
Boston Ballet premiered Merce Cunningham's innovative "Breakers" in Washington last year as part of the Kennedy Center's Ballet Commissioning Project. Opening the show, "Breakers" is a perfect example of a successful artistic whole coming together from many different elements. Cunningham's choreography, Driscoll's score and Mary Jean Kenton's scenic design were developed independently for the piece. Cunningham also choreographs computer-generated movement through experimention on a software package called "Lifeforms...
...donated before and I kind of know what toexpect," said Kathryn E. Cunningham '95 "If youcome in the afternoon there will be a line. Butyou know they're working as fast as they...
...contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media's caution reflected a pro-choice bias. "Even if you want to say the study is inconclusive, I think women have a right to know," says Paige Cunningham, president of Americans United for Life. "Physicians routinely tell patients about much smaller risks than this...