Word: negativa
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...flygirls aren't the Spice Girls, who are they? The Christian tradition on which Jesus Christ Superstar is based (in theory, at least) makes use of the via negativa to define who God is, outlining everything He isn't (e.g., "God is not mortal") and implying that He is everything else. A similar tactic works for the flygirls. They're not the Supremes, exactly, although in some scenes they do alternate their backflips with do-wop backup harmonies. They're not all TLC, despite their crazysexycool attitude and hip-hop flava (they describe their dance style...
Facing each other in the circle are two Brazilians, Purple Shirt No. 5 and Breaker-of-Iron, both rhythmically undulating while a berimbau quavers. Suddenly, Purple Shirt drops on his hands and kicks one foot out in the bencao, aiming at Breaker's ribs. Breaker fades into a negativa, slumping smoothly backward onto one hand and one foot as the blow whistles harmlessly past, then lashes out in the hammer, his foot aimed at Purple Shirt's groin. What does Purple Shirt do? Why, he cartwheels away, smiling, and then both resume the ginga as the tambourines jingle...
...theatre as a laboratory for the encounter between people and that he as producer-director is responsil?le for coordinating two groups. the actors and the spectators. He doesn't touch people but is very concerned with the psychic communication involved. His method of rchearsal which he calls via negativa, is a stripping away of any barrier between the actor and the spectutor: he says that even the text is a barrer because it is just one more metaphor separating and so it too must be made subservient to the actor-spectator relationship. It just has to be total communication...
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