Word: isamu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost bare stage (set by Isamu Noguchi) dominated by a fantastical red classroom "barre'' that resembled a misshapen ironing board, five sets of dancers twisted in a brilliant but broadly exaggerated spoof of technical dance movements to Carlos Surinach's wittily parodistic score. At one point, three girls stood on the wide barre casually doing deep knee bends while three male members of the company lying beneath them mirrored the action in reverse. Choreographer Graham's part in the whole thing consisted of sulking behind a screen, emerging occasionally to freeze the whip-flicking ballet master...
Maze for Money. Once committed, Rose plunged into the project with characteristic energy, planned to make his sculpture's new home in Jerusalem the best money could buy. He retained Isamu Noguchi, a sculptor who doubles in landscape design, to lay out a sloping, five-acre garden adjoining the National Museum where the collection will be displayed on natural rock pedestals in a maze of stone walls, cypresses and jasmine bushes. "When Isamu came up with the maze idea," Billy says, "I knew what he meant right away. I'm an old carney man myself...