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...Shahn, artist D.F.A...
...offering a new variety of on-ship activities. American Export Lines, for example, is running a Caribbean "Culture Cruise" that leaves New York this week. The culture seekers will be able to gaze at a gallery of paintings by artists from Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington to Ben Shahn and Milton Avery, will be lectured by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Critic John Mason Brown, Poet John Ciardi and Manhattan's Whitney Museum Director Floyd Goodrich as the ship steams through the warm Caribbean islands. The line will also run a "Bridge Cruise," captained by Expert Charles Goren and patronized...
...Events," says Robbins, "is not Les Sylphides"; it is light-years away from that serenest of classic white ballets. If it has any theme, it is simply the "fantastic confusion that the ordinary day holds for everyone." The idea was suggested by Composer Robert Prince and Painter Ben Shahn, who collaborated with Robbins on one of his most popular recent works, New York Export: Opus Jazz. The three of them, meeting informally and often, kept adjusting music, choreography and set designs as they went along, improvising freely. Six hours before curtain time, Robbins' talented Ballets U.S.A. troupe had still...
Last week's audience seemed more than satisfied with the current state of Events. Provided with a piercing, acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...