Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fugue" (1970), the earliest piece on the Loeb's program, illustrates clearly how Tharp structures a dance--choreographing phrases which three male dancers reverse, speed up, slow down and cut apart. Clapping and stomping, the three men create a complex rhythm, a beat which pounds through silences. Tharp once said, "the stronger the structure, the looser the movement that can hang from...
...Most guys have been skating as much as possible," freshman Gene Purdy said yesterday. "But exams are going to throw off our rhythm. It can't be used as an excuse; it's just one of those things we've got to deal with." Purdy finished exams last week...
...through the quiet alpine village, play poker, and fret. "We've got to skate," says U.S. Sprint Specialist Peter Mueller. "We're losing precious time." At last, late in the afternoon, the ice is cleared and the Americans lace up. Their arms swinging in the hypnotic rhythm of the workout, the skaters seem oblivious to the cold and stinging snow. Round, round, round they go, fluid figures in the fading light...
Perhaps her most remarkable quality is the most elusive one: her musicality. Every move is annealed to rhythm; each musical line is filled out fluidly rather than punctuated abruptly. When it is all going right, Dorothy's performance can inspire even Dorothy, who has skated it hundreds of times. "You're skating and doing the most difficult things," she says, "and the audience is with you. They're clapping, cheering. You're floating. It's like nothing else I've ever felt...
...admired her until I noticed that the only birth control method offered by her is the rhythm method. If Mother Teresa and others realized that preventing suffering is better than relieving suffering, their efforts would be more valuable. Or do saints need misery...