Word: formality
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After their formal at the Children’s Museum last year netted only $6,000, CityStep leaders hoped to double that by moving to a less formal venue, which would allow them to sell up to 1,500 tickets, 300 more than the museum...
CityStep members suggested that upperclassman turnout increased. Caroline M. McKay ’05, an executive producer of CityStep, said there was a solid representation of freshmen and upperclassmen at the formal. “That was part of our goal,” she said. “We wanted to make it an all-school affair...
...student arts group. “They’re more interactive. That way, there’s an element of creation and involvement in the process.” Perhaps the nebulous quality of a happening event is its most defining characteristic; “They can be formal or informal, planned or spontaneous,” said Coll...
Spontaneous though the happenings of today may be, the events are actually part of a formal tradition of public art that extends back to an October evening in 1959, when Allan Kaprow debuted his 18 Happenings in 6 Parts at New York’s Reuben Gallery. According to RoseLee Goldberg in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Kaprow built three small rooms in a loft, filled them with chairs, and herded the audience from room to room showing them disjointed actions like a woman standing still “for ten seconds, left forearm raised, pointing...
...devoted to sharing, exploring and enjoying the visible and hidden, the now and the future and the impossible, the spontaneous and the momentary, from many sides....” Present! also publishes a creative literary magazine and takes part in other events that are more formal and structured...