Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strained balletic invention at one point reduced them to peering dolefully through the symbolically barred backs of chairs. Returning to Jacob's Pillow, the company put on The Wedding Present, an emotionally charged dance drama with homosexual overtones, about the crackup of a marriage. A dance shocker, of a sort, was offered in a scene in which two males embrace and kiss...
...cistern prison, his long matted hair hung down to his animal skin sarong. Another shock. Then came Salome with her veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under the sophisticated hand of Director Götz Friedrich, 32, the Komische Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign at the box office. With Czech Soprano Jarmila Rudolfova as Salome, Friedrich...
...Balcony. Part burlesque, part Black Mass, Jean Genet's shocker argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...
...Balcony. Jean Genet's shocker, part burlesque, part Black Mass, argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...
...substantial number of works were found, including many now ranked as masterpieces (see color pages). Placed on exhibition in Utica, before moving this week to Manhattan under the sponsorship of the Henry Street Settlement. Trovato's re-creation is worth all the trouble: though obviously no longer a shocker, the Armory Show has extraordinary vitality still...