Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...byzantine process. In 1973 the government concluded that salvation lay in growing more sugar: the industry is labor-intensive and world prices were high, but they have since fallen. Recently the government warned that 20,000 more workers will be idled and the economy will tumble into worse shape when the sugar harvest is completed in April. Not coincidentally, the ratification showdown on Capitol Hill should occur near then...
...core is beginning to take shape...
...daddy of the team and everybody had a lot of respect for him." recalls DiNicola. "He was a crazy type of guy. I remember him getting up at 2:30 in the morning and doing his roadwork. He did have erratic training habits but he was generally in shape when fights came around...
...decor and music, this too is essentially a respect for the integrity of individual elements rather than a surrender to anarchy. Carolyn Brown, long an outstanding Cunningham dancer, points out that "the dancers are treated more as puzzles than works of art: the pieces are space and time, shape and rhythm The rest is up to us [the dancers] We put the puzzle together, making of it what we can, bringing to it what our imaginations allow...
There are those who have found any art of such absolute reduction too self-restricting, something abstracted beyond either beauty or meaning. Yet unlike painting or poetry or music, dance can never really be "abstract," because the shape of both instrument and perfected form is the familiarity of the human body. The essence of Cunningham's art is in the end not reduction, but the affirmation of the body in the simplicity of its own life. Perhaps most of all, his is an art of celebration