Word: gussets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music, dance notation. D.T.H. builds its own scenery, and company members help the technical crew put up the show. They even know how to make costumes. If a dancer's costume pulls or sags in the crotch, he can tell the seamstress that he has to have a gusset. Eventually, Mitchell hopes to add a full-scale drama department, art-history classes, a theater and dormitories. Yet even now, D.T.H. comes closer than any other American dance institution to a Russian conservatory like the Bolshoi or the Kirov...
...scale is that of a small building. Her models and table-sculptures are as a rule no more interesting than ashtrays; there is not enough going on in them to hold the eye. Size is what makes them work, and when they are large, their internal structure of gusset and rib gives them a visual texture that they lack on the small scale. One needs to walk around them and clamber inside their angular crevices. The planes of steel, sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk...