Word: dancerly
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...reckless, witty, she did whatever she pleased," says the museum's 116-page guidebook. "It was Mrs. Gardner's rule to select and acquire the best. If at a polo game, she would be escorted to her seat by the best player of the day...and naturally the best dancer in society was pretty regularly her Cotillion partner... Such victories the ladies could not forgive...
...powered solo number for two feet and two brooms; four ornery performers challenge each other to outdo one another in playing matchbooks like maracas. We get solo tap-dancing in heavy work boots, a symphony with drugstore-issue plastic bags and an impressive spotlight number in which a single dancer drums up a storm--using only his hands and his own body as instruments...
...example, in one of the least flashy but most striking numbers of the show, tuned lengths of rubber tubing appear in the performers' hands. To throw pitch into the mix, each time a dancer lands from one of his prodigious leaps, the ungainly lengths of rubber tubing strikes a haunting note against the stage floor--the dance as a whole creates a melody. The effect is startlingly beautiful--it's a little watching Tom Hanks dancing on the giant floor piano in Big, except infinitely less chessy and more thrilling...
...than the memory of an earth-shaking 90 minutes; part of its purpose is to inspire the audience to start banging on anything that comes to hand. At the end of the show, after the players have gotten all the audience finally to snap fingers in rhythm, the final dancer to exit the stage breaks into words for the first time, summing up the show's message: "Keep it going," he says. "See how long you can keep it with you. Take it home...
...with so much of their art, we might be tempted to judge the work as a contemptuous critique of the banal. Yet the artists clearly delight in their subjects, and their fascination proves infectious. We cringe at the sight of the dentist's drill and laugh at one clumsy dancer in the disco, knowing all too well that our moves are never as great we think they are. The generosity and empathy of Fischli and Weiss' vision proves that they're never laughing at us, but always laughing with us. And unlike so many exhibitions of critical '80s art, there...