Word: passloff
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...company headed by Aileen Passloff, one of the more highly praised avant-garde dancers, performed works that at times seemed closer to calisthenics than choreography. In At Home, the dancers brought out an ironing board and chairs, spent much of their time exuberantly thumping the floor with their heels to the taped ringing of bells, rubbing of balloons, and the off-key screech of misplayed violins. In Arena, the dancers did push-ups while an accompanist whistled Yankee Doodle. Appropriately, the series ended with a piece called Cypher, done, to the sound (electronically altered) of an audience coughing during...
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