Word: tableaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These two moments were lifted out of time and lent a significance beyond the surrounding circumstances. They were tableaus, which might well have stood for similar incidents that Shakespeare did not have time to show. Nor were Hermione's attentions to Polixenes anything to be sniffed at: they were real, too real, and, even presented as normal incidents. would have been ample cause for jealousy. These moments gave him a king's share of time in which to corrupt his initially pure nature...
Before the evening's real business--attacks on anarchists and open housing--we met the candidate's families, posed awkwardly in domestic tableaus, not knowing what to do with their hands and faces for the few seconds the camera stopped on them...
...most ambitions presentations of the evening were Untitled Dance by Radcliffe's Donna Brooks, Declension by Rima Wolff, Nina Adolph's Changes 1--both graduate students at Harvard, and Imagine this Dance to Harp Music from Brandeis. All these choreographers do create some very fine tableaus, especially in the last three dances. But they shatter these moments of beauty as soon as they regroup the performers. Changes 1 probably illustrates best what is wrong with the choreography. To a quite unmemorable sound collage by David Maxwell, the dancers as a tightly interwoven group walk diagonally across the stage while...