Search Details

Word: difruscia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1977-1977
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Fine's presence is more overt in Elizabeth Lurie's "A Garden Romance," a sequence of theatrical actions built with a dance momentum. Fine is the groom to Ann DiFruscia's bride, and the imaginative scaffolding of theri romance turns on an old-fashioned stand-up bathtub. It sounds gimmicky, but is not; on the contrary, it is the sort of fantasy dance best sustains...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Imaginative Scaffolding | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

...DiFruscia offered a more everyday sort of fantasy, "3 Distances and 12 Words (Part II)," for dancers, vido and film. I'm not sure what effect the media contribute to the work. The video sets hardly command one's attention, and the taped narrative leaves a vague impression beside the vividness of the dance action. (Words with dance are curious--the way words make sense springs from a rhythm so different from the logic of dance that they pass by like soap-opera dialogue, which probably is half their purpose.) In the second section, with the projection equipment shut...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Imaginative Scaffolding | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

| 1 |