Word: lucinda
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Many of the students say that the opportunity to work with world class actors and artists like Brustein, Surban, Geidt, Epstein, Raphael, Loui and the new movement coach Lucinda Childs is the Institute's best aspect...
...play unfolds around the relatively silent and austere Jeanine Cendrars, played with an otherworldly grace by the avant-garde dancer Lucinda Childs. Mrs. Cendrars is discovered wandering through the snowy woods at the curtain, lost, having "taken a wrong turn. "She is "rescued" and whisked, almost against her will, to the lobby of the Richelieu, where she finds a warm welcome and her luggage--which she never sent--waiting...
Even director Andrei Serban, one of the theatrical giants of the known universe, seems to have been a bit bewildered by this piece. His usual mastry of theatrical trickery has slipped, most notably during the first scene. A woman (Lucinda Childs) wanders across the front of the stage. Behind her a piece of white scrim is blown by a wind machine, representing the white wall of a terrific blizzard. A shrill voice booms through the P.A. system, then--Riiiip!--Frau von Kessel (Elizabeth Franz) and her servant tear the scrim and stick their torsos through it. It's supposed...
...slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean have pushed out the envelope of movement with each new step they have taken...
Many of the faculty are New-York based and Fanger, a noted dance historian and critic who writes for the Boston Herald, says she makes several trips to New York each year to help her cull her 17-member faculty. Lucinda Childs, head of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, David Gordon, head of the Pick Up Company and Remy Charlip are among this year's noted teachers...