Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with confidence and spirit. A few of them, Lisa Nelson and Whittaker Sheppard in particular, give off sparks of a very personalized energy. A few of them, especially wide-eyed Wendy Perron, possess radiant good looks that are nothing if not pleasant to behold. A few of them, like Martha Armstrong, are very funny. Attributes like these can make even a spoiled Loeb audience forget they're faced with a proscenium stage bare of sets, made ugly by a dirty canvas floor cloth and backed by shabby backdrops of black or white...
...long ago, Taylor, who studied and danced with Martha Graham for six years, was considered an avant-garde experimenter in choreographic Dada. He composed dances to the sound of rain, and once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells...
...long ago, Taylor, who studied and danced with Martha Graham for six years, was considered an avant-garde experimenter in choreographic Dada. He composed dances to the sound of rain, and once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells...
Before the constitution could be adopted, a referendum was to be held on the question of Anguillian independence. Fisher was back in Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard--when, on the 10th of July, he received a telegram reading "REFERENDUM SET FOR THE 11TH IMPERATIVE YOU RETURN IMMEDIATELY BRING INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS." He did his best...
...other sister, played by Martha Bayles, complements the little conspiracy very well herself. She is preposterously large while her partner is preposterously small. They play against each other skillfully, whether they are interring a body in their cellar mortuary or pouring another glass of lethal elderberry wine...