Word: kineticism
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Helen Pickett’s “Eventide,” for example, was wondrously cosmopolitan. Pickett, one of the three female choreographers, merged classical East Indian music with that of Western composers for her score. The merger directed the movement. Dancers displayed quick, sharp footwork, but then surprised...
"On an oriental trip an old soothsayer told me my fortune,” wrote Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1943. “Toward the end he bowed in a stagey manner and said in French: ‘Madame, you are one of the few chosen women.?...
Taking an old classic and making it into something fresh always has a risk of disaster. There’s a chance that the update will have the same effect of hearing Britney cover “Satisfaction” or of sighting your gramps wearing bright blue skintight jeans...
When it reaches the 1960s, the show grows patchier. Italian design was stellar during this era, but speed-related examples are scarce. A 1969 Olivetti typewriter symbolizes what qualified then for a new-found velocity in communications, while minidresses from Emilio Pucci and Missoni sneak into the show on the...
An hour's ride by high-speed train from Berlin, the Phaeno has assembled 70 contemporary works that show the range of emotion and ingenuity of kinetic artists. They have at least one thing in common: "They're all completely obsessive," says Sarah Alexander of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, a museum...