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...Angeles, Hoffman studied to be a concert pianist but dropped the idea fast when he discovered the fun of acting classes. It is nearly a decade since he became an overnight star in The Graduate; he now gets $750,000 a picture. He and his wife, Ballet Dancer Anne Byrne, live in New York City. Says he: "If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes." He is extravagantly proud of his wife, who stopped dancing to have two children, but who is now "making a comeback second only to Muhammad Ali." He concludes...
...scavengers who sift through famous people's garbage to determine how they spend their lives would have found nothing enlightening in our trash. Perhaps there was a crumpled note from an unrequited dancer to his tormentress, but there were no incriminatory condoms, needles, or stains. This had been a typical Harvard party--elevated perhaps by a tape of reggae and soul, distinguished maybe by the eclectic crowd--but in reality just another boring bash. In our trash was the spoor of the Saturday night regulars: a tiny contingent of Third World people, a handful of Wellesley women, a pride...
...stick the walls, marking time and women with only the movement of their eyes--maintained their posts. By 1:30, though, the eyes began to drift out: first the flitting eyes of the stag men, then the eye I had kept so long on the captive dancer who slipped out at one, and finally the sequinned eye on the shirt of the blonde who had danced so long...
...larger forms of Chassler's work take on qualities similar to its characteristics of movement. Energy is parcelled out into long stretches, each followed by short rests during which the dancer returns to a state of neutral energy, gathering again the threads of the sustaining image. The work is extremely linear, a soliloquy, like the prose poem Chassler recites...
...early sixties, points out ways in which recent dance resembles minimalist sculpture, the latter an art "simple, clear, direct, and immediate" in the words of one critic. Rainier almost could be referring specifically to Chassler's language: indeterminate structure decided at the time of performance; neutral performance, the dancer rejecting character and pose; task-like rather than dance-like activity; phrasing in terms of consistent levels of energy. Whether Chassler consciously follows the avant-garde tradition described by Rainier, I don't know, but she certainly couldn't dance as she does without the ground-breaking work Rainier and other...