Word: safariing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Jowitt and Sonntag, I shouldn't write that of the six Boston choreographers collaborating as Dance Collective, Beth Soll seems to have the most sensitivity for making dances, but rather I should only describe her work: "Safari," a trio for one woman and a couple, concerns memory, history, travel. Three journeyers slowly traverse the stage, their gestures more theatrical than dance-like. What begins as logic ends as absurdity; like scouts, the trio raise their hands to their brows, then transform the gesture into an odd wiggly wave...
...very model of a modern diplomatic safari to black Africa. There was a forceful policy speech reading the riot act to southern Africa's white minority regimes, friendly talks with black moderates and a long tēte-å-tēte with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Sen-ghor-not to mention the prescribed attack of gastroenteritis, glimpses of giant cape buffalo bellowing in the moonlight and a cargo hold full of souvenirs in the big U.S. Air Force 707. Then Henry Kissinger, increasingly caught in the political crossfiring back home, climaxed his two-week African tour...
...German soldiers were called out to assist 6,000 civilian firefighters battling two fires that destroyed 20,000 acres of forest land and threatened ten villages. Zookeepers also had their hands full. Penguins in the Cologne zoo had to be put in air-conditioned boxes. A lion in a safari park near Frankfurt lumbered out of his lair and took a dip in the park's fountain, and a frazzled baby leopard at the West Berlin zoo sprang out of its crate and bit West German President Walter Scheel, tearing his jacket...
...that? Never went on a safari, never hunted...
...houses behind the British embassy, residents watched the top-secret files going up in smoke. "The ashes were flying all over," reported a Vietnamese professor. "We knew that the British were not burning incense for their ancestors." Soon afterward, Ambassador John Christopher Wydowe Bushell, spiffy in a well-pressed safari suit, headed for Tan Son Nhut in his silver Jaguar. The West Germans, the Dutch, the Canadians, the Thais, the Japanese and the Australians departed too, leaving only the French and the Belgians?who maintain diplomatic relations with the North Vietnamese?and, for the time being, the Americans...