Word: dancers
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...faithful life companion, but also reflecting on the slow disintegration of the family structure. Sentiments aside, the direction of the movie, which is set in Germany and Japan, pays tribute to a cross-cultural exchange between East and West embodied in the interaction between Rudi and a teenaged Butoh dancer named Yu (Aya Irizuki). While Rudi travels to Japan as a way of making amends to his dead wife, it is not until he meets Yu that he learns about an aspect of his wife’s life that had previously eluded him. Thus, Butoh’s dancing...
...curled white wig jerks his head, filling the air with dust as he moves. Bubbles spontaneously appear onstage, and the 14 ballet dancers begin to play with them; a woman pops the one in front of her, another tries to gather them in her arms. In “Black and White,” the U.S. premiere of five ballets choreographed by Jirí Kylián between 1986 and 1991, decorum is literally cast off and left excavated on the stage like a mask behind which no face appears. Variations of an elaborate, rigid 18th century dress appear...
...Bennett ‘11RR: What do you think of the paintings?SRW: I’m very impressed. Our friend has practically lived here, so it’s nice to see the end result.RR: So was she successful?SRW: Of course! She’s a dancer, and I can see a lot of the same talent in her paintings.MAB: All of the paintings here are so different. There’s a lot of self-expression. Cartoons next to big splotches.SRW: I like the monsters. They’re cute in a freakish way.RR: Do you think...
...architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco - influenced posters, paintings, advertisements and fabrics, plus a film loop of her doing an athletic shimmy...
...seems like there's a pattern of ambivalence because so many women were raised with this idea that they could either be an astronaut or a ballet dancer or a mom; whereas I think that men were never sent a conflicting message. So I think that women [who] grew up as the children of baby boomers - certainly, from that generation on - felt they had a lot of options, and one of the options was not to work. I think that's why so many women who wanted to make their own way in the world and did so very successfully...