Word: passloff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uses nothing but metaphoric gesture: expressive intent informs each movement. The work is simply structured One group of dancers works as a unit into which three characters--"the shaman," "the first horse," and "the mother"--emerge and recede. The section motifs, derived from imporivsation directed by guest choreographer Aileen Passloff, are simple as well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits, dream images? It's easy...
...their legs and feet dangling prettily in the air, as if no position in the world could be more natural. Then, just before you, too, roll over on your back, properly convoluted, you see the young woman who is leading the parade (later you learn her name is Aileen Passloff, and she has come all the way from New York to free your head and activate your hamstrings), and she is wearing some leg-warmers that look like bell-bottoms and a leotard with a zip-up front, all very chic, and most important, and continually more important...
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