Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Cancan (1955), on the opening night of the club Moulin Rouge, Nini (Francoise Arnoul) the star dancer refuses to perform when she sees the owner, Danglar (Jean Gabin) being unfaithful with the star singer. Ordered from her locked dressing room by her mother, she states that she will only dance if Danglar promises to dismiss his other mistresses. Danglar, pinned to the wall, stammers what we had suspected all along: Nini could never keep him tied down; his life is the theatre and he loves only what he creates, while he is creating it. "You!" he says, pointing...
French Cancan is a massive and complicated film. The fifteen minute dance that ends the film is cross-cut with shots of solitary Danglar, not watching his triumphant opening from the nightclub but listening backstage. He doesn't need to watch the girls perform, for they are an expression of his soul; he lives through them. At the same time, Renoir makes it clear that the Cancan girls are individuals, not simply submissive to Danglar's way of life. Though we initially question the individuality of people who happily exist as part of the order of Danglar's universe. Renoir...
...department also intends to hire a group of professional musicians to perform the works of young composers. At present, composers have to wait for special concerts of student pieces to hear how their music sounds; that usually means waiting until the end of a term, when most of the special concerts are scheduled. With the proposed group, students could test out their compositions at intermediate stages in their writing. The professional musicians will also provide live music for classes and seminars...
Aloof on Olympus. If regents are to perform their buffer role effectively, they clearly need to know student and faculty leaders. Not all of them do. "Nobody really has any contact with the board of governors-it's like speaking to the gods on Olympus," complains Bart Mindszenthy, a campus newspaper editor at Wayne State University. Yet California regents are trying hard: they meet monthly with student leaders, sometimes hike with them in the High Sierras. Governors of Central Michigan University stay in student dorms when they meet...
...which uses a 360° to tal-involvement screen to project the spectators into the middle of a furious National League hockey game. Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion. Most popular restaurant: Canada's Atlantic Provinces pavilion, where diners can feast on excellent sea food chowder while watching shipwrights at work building a wooden-hulled schooner...