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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The ballet, like the compositions, is really two separate works. In Metas-taseis (a coined word meaning dialectic transformation), an enormous disk at the center of a bare stage reveals itself to be 28 male and female dancers in chalk-white garments that look like winter underwear. Slowly they writhe...
Pithoprakta (meaning actions by probabilities) has twelve dancers skittering, scuttering, rolling across the stage like nodes and waves of electrical energy. A lithe, half-naked Negro in black (Arthur Mitchell) and a tall girl in white (Suzanne Farrell) do a fluid, sex-charged pas de deux that builds to brief...
Whatever the programmatic meaning -perhaps proton meets electron, proton loves electron, proton loses electron-it is an elegant and pleasing combination of sight welded to sound.
Successful Stable. The guides generally provide a synopsis of the plot and the most commonly accepted interpretations of the characters, action and meaning of the work. In effect, they are a commercialized version of the old fraternity files of crib sheets on courses, compiled by students who attended class regularly...
Hipster-Nihilist. The device that Fuentes uses to launch the novel is as old as Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who...