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...clothes were no match for some of the costumes in "American Women in Style," the new show that opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute last week. The main attractions of the exhibit, organized by Diana Vreeland, were the eloquently unfettered wardrobes of two great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo and often performed her astounding dances wearing nothing but a chiffon shawl. In an adjoining room, the eye-popping costumes of St. Louis-born Folies-Bergère Dancer...
...front of one's eyes; or the massive silver head, possibly of the Sassanian King Shapur II; or the exquisitely elaborated 17th century flintlock gun made by Pierre le Bourgeoys for Louis XIII; or even such small items as a 3rd century B.C. bronze of a Greek dancer, whirling on her axis like a Hellenistic Martha Graham...
...less secure: Nijinsky had time to design only four ballets before incurable schizophrenia ended his career. This somewhat overproduced book traces that parabolic career from 1906 to 1917. Producer-Balletomane Lincoln Kirstein's weighty introductory essays are lightened by a hundred astonishing photographs that demonstrate why a dancer 50 years dead continues to leap in the imagination and styles of choreographers everywhere in the world...
...seminar at the Law School Nesson observes a mock courtroom trial, looking fascinated. As the student prosecutor catches a witness in an apparent contradiction, Nesson smiles and nods his head approvingly, as if he has just witnessed a dancer executing a difficult pirouette...
...Dancer Douglas Dunn writes a poem similar to R.D. Laing's "Knots" by listing what seem to be all the linguistic combinations possible with "dancing," "talking," and the verb "to be." It ends...