Word: interpretative
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...show switches gears to a more modern vein with “Still Rising,” choreographed by Shelby Braxton-Brooks ’03. The background music to the dancing alternates between poetry from Maya Angelou, music from Sweet Honey in the Rock and silence. Thirteen girls interpret the poetry of Angelou (which they also deliver vocally) with their movements in an attempt, according to the program, to “connect the spoken word with the moving...
...audience on this Monday night was certainly receptive to such sentiments and excited to see acting heavyweights interpret new work. Highly anticipated was the appearance of Rebecca Pidgeon, an actress featured in the David Mamet films The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main and his upcoming Heist. Miller praised Pidgeon, the big draw of the evening, for her “fine and subtle touch as an actress...
This is not to say that all great biographical filmmaking must center around the verisimilitude of a performance or novel interpretations of events. Indeed, a film like Raging Bull does not achieve its greatness through either of these, but instead more for its enthralling and ultimately tragic story and the artistic greatness of director Martin Scorsese. Based on the true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real...
...nothing like the weird-looking geeks in the movie. But put them all together on Soldiers Field, and you have the ultimate band camp—tons of people who are supposed to be entertaining the audience but instead seem to be performing what the average fan can only interpret as one huge inside joke...
...photographs are all taken in the documentary tradition; that is to say, their main objective is to record rather than to interpret the history that they treat. But this is not to call into question the artistic merits of the photographs, or indeed the photographers. It was still the charge of the photographer to anticipate what would be historically important-what features of his or her current generation would come eventually to be defining, and to depict those features with poignancy and beauty. At the very least, this choice to include or exclude--this visual diction, as it were--defines...