Word: noumenon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diagonally in space, signposts for its immensity, variables in a world governed by laws of time and motion. The dancer is also an object in its own right for Nikolais, an immobile sculptural form no longer calling attention to the dimensions of space but to its own three-dimensionality. Noumenon takes off from this point, exploring how body-enveloping stretch material can transform the dancer into a frozen form in space. Here three dancers become towering Egyptian mummies. At the last moment, they clutch their necks, their features for the first time screaming through the veils...
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