Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large not looking for semi-elegant apartments with high rents and no bookshelves, and it's hard to imagine that many of them will live in Soldiers Field Park. More broadly, the whole complex is the kind of thing that in theory, when described or seen in model form, is a wonderful place to live, but in actual fact is not. It's the kind of place that is ideally suited to artists' conceptions, these drawings that show people strolling through plazas pushing baby carriages, sitting under schematic trees and living the good life...
...actual fact, none of these things work the way they're supposed to. The building shapes that look so pleasing in schematic drawings in real life form a confusing jumble, one in which it's hard to tell where the order is. The red brick, while offset by inset balconies and windows, is still massive and intimidating. The pedestrian areas are claustrophobic, their trees in neat rows or sunk in cement, quite unlikely to be the site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike...
Introspection: Vicki Rubin and Lydia Sargent try unsuccessfully to invent a personal form of dance to express their inner thoughts. Working with a company untrained in even the most basic modern dance forms, even the two pieces in the program which are drawn from a recognizable style ("Yearning" uses tap dancing) or on a communicable idea ("Taking a Walk" uses interesting combinations of men and women taking strolls together) don't work. May 1 at 8 p.m. at 15 Newbury Street in Boston. Tickets...
THERE'S A LOT of missionary zeal in the dance world. Many dancers find themselves still fighting the battle Martha Graham supposedly won--for the acceptance of dance as a legitimate art form by the American public. Colleges have played a big part in the fight, sheltering dancers when it was next to impossible for them to make a living otherwise. (The big summer dance festivals at Bennington and Connecticut College came into existence precisely because in the off-season dance companies had no other work.) Unlike the other performing arts, dance derives a good proportion of its creative vitality...
...that despite their busy professional lives, the group makes a concentrated effort to retain the group's cohesiveness. The collective meets weekly, she says, and the women take pains to give each member an evening where they are the center of attention. sometimes, she says, this attention takes the form of working out problems that the member has been bothered by within the group or her personal life, while with others it is simply an almost ritualistic expression of their feeling toward each other...