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...beaming a foot-high holographic projection of her, moving and talking in 3-D, right into the room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey...
KIDS AND TEACHERS at East Somerville Community School performed an extraordinary dance last Saturday night. "May Day," choreographed by Toby Armour, artistic director of New England Dinosaur, a company which just finished two weeks as artists-in-residence at the school, is a rare achievement. First, for the company to have given inexperienced children and adults the sense of what makes dance, and second, for the choreography of the work to be recognizable as Armour's style...
...dancers put on this same quality of obliviousness in "HUP," a work to a taped score by Ezra Sims, a member of Dinosaur Annex which is associated with the dance company. The quartet grinds through quick bouncy jumps, erotic hip gyrations and military marching with equal indifference. A girl bouncing a ball begins the work; a lone ball bounding across stage ends the dance. A lady behind me aptly remarked, as one dancer laid her head on the shoulder of another, "I'd be tired too, if I'd been jumpin' around like that...
...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
...went into two decades of neglect. Restored to critical approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending that, at its best, releases the playgoer from Broadway's Imperial Theater...