Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middlesex School in Concord, February 12, at 8. Adults $3.75; students $2.50. Gutta Dance. Aplay with and about dance, assembled and directed by Robert Seder. Presented at the Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont St. February 13-15 and February 20-22, at 8. donation $.99. Helium Mime Show. More media-mixing in this Valentine's Day Celebration of music, media, and mime performed for children, At the Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass Ave., February 14, 1-3:30 p.m. Tickets $2.50 a person; $7.50 for the whole family...
...SICK LITTLE girl in a woman's body, Empress Phylissa doesn't know her powers. Drooling, a finger hooked over her lower lip, the beauty never guesses that her bedroom's an asylum. She makes you wrench, as do all the characters in The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre's The Menagerie of Empress Phylissa performed last week at the Loeb...
...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
EUROPEAN DANCE, however experimental (and The Polish Mime Ballet certainly is), tends to remain rooted in the art of theater. American dance, on the other hand, is often highly conceptual and not at all dramatic, a fact demonstrated by The Oberlin Dance Collective last week at the Radcliffe...
Remaining pieces, Kimi Okada's tap dance "Hit or Miss" and Pam Quinn's "A Coup from the Blues," return to beat and music and the exuberant physicality of dance. Yet, set against the style of The Polish Mime Ballet Theater, these two works preserve an American earnestness, steering clear of overmuch theatricality--or sensuality...