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Velie opened the second-half scoring, putting a shot over the URI goalie's left shoulder. Cunningham's goal followed the Velie score, and a breakaway tally by Sailer brought the score...
...second half, a freshman trio provided the punch; Ann Velie, Carrie Cunningham, and Chris Sailer each registered one goal...
...pointed out that several years ago she had choreographed a long piece, "A Paper Event," and the paper had cost her $2000 for three night. I was moved by her noble ideals to reduce my modest demands to a new low. Mallardi, who studied with Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, is a highly demanding person who can identify what she wants from her associates, and seems...
...same way, Cunningham's dances go beyond emotional mood to achieve a sense of archetypal form. Familiar gestures are the stuff of much Cunningham choreography, but abstracted onstage from their ordinary context they appear as the organic prototypes of the motions of day-to-day living, acquiring a startling purity the more integral for its understatement. One's encounter with the choreography becomes a series of luminous recognitions; dance stripped of all overt meaning works on the viewer's mind with the power of symbol. And the large structures, wholly intent on unfolding patterns of motion and relation, resonate instead...
THAT IS PERHAPS Cunningham's greatest gift, as the performances last week made clear. His work explores the processes of the body, but its effect also allows the onlooker to explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...