Word: isadora
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...legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line that characterized his first big success, The Moor's Pavane, which is still a favorite with the American Ballet Theater. Less striking but still provocative were Dances for Isadora, which drew on the Duncan story to fashion a subtle metaphor of death-in-life and life-in-death, and Carlata, a mad court fantasy (danced to silence) about the widow of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Where is the permanent theater home that Limon deserves...
...lifes possess it. One finds a whole cast of characters: tables, for instance, run the gamut from the stolid turned legs under The Pink Tablecloth to the drowned and tilted marine landscape of The Billiard Table, 1944-52, to the iron legs of The Gueridon, 1935, flexing gaily like Isadora Duncan at practice...
...Dancer Isadora Duncan died as dramatically as she lived, when her long scarf became caught in the wheel of a moving car and strangled her. A one-in-a-million fluke? Not quite. Flowing neckwear has been in style recently, and according to an article in the A.M.A. Journal, so have freakish-and often fatal-injuries. In one of eleven cases studied, a teen-age girl suffered severe facial cuts and bruises when her scarf snagged in the wheel of her boy friend's motorcycle. An eleven-year-old boy whose scarf caught in the engine of his snowmobile...
Anne of the Thousand Days--A boring re-enactment of the Ann Boleyn-Henry VIII conflict that's inaccurate to boot. Genevieve Bujold's Anne, however, is lovely, and almost makes the film worth seeing. With Loves of Isadora, a mess, but a showcase for Vanessa Redgrave's great talent. ORSON WELLES CINEMA, Call...
...examines how the poet learned "the Transport by the Pain--As Blind Men learn the Sun!" and reminds us that despite her astonishing outpouring of poems (366 in 1862, 174 in 1864) only seven were published in her lifetime. Annette Baxter has little trouble recreating the disturbed melodrama of Isadora Duncan's career, recently popularized by Vanessa Redgrave--the erratic public acceptance of her work, the flamboyance of her marriages and the tragedies of her children's deaths and her own. And finally, Douglas Day helps to debunk the image of Gertrude Stein as blue-stocking and "great Jewish Buddha...