Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program, entitled "Birds, Beasts and Flowers," was compiled by John Carroll, and included over 60 selections on the theme of nature. Proceeds from the tour will benefit the World Wildlife Fund, an international preservation organization...
...upon the modern musical format with Oklahoma! in 1943, various artists have made rare, usually unsuccessful, attempts to transcend its fluffy nature. Company, however, is an exception, and even though it opts for a conventional pro-marriage outlook, it is refreshing to see a musical dealing with an adult theme...
...action takes place, of course, in New York, the ultimate hangout for unmarried swingers and upwardly mobile young couples. When Company first hit Broadway almost ten years ago, it had a very chic, cosmopolitan air; that sophistication seems a little dated, but the theme of marital give-and-take versus a less threatening but lonelier single life remains relevant. In the first act, Bobby wanders among his married friends, acting as a straight-man, bringing out their annoying traits and seemingly set patterns. In the second act, he begins to feel increasingly isolated, and this leads to the obligatory epiphany...
THAT WAS THE THEME of last week's recitals, as it has been of all Cunningham's choreography: the basic processes of the human body's motion, discerned with a painstaking and endlessly refreshing eye. Like a painter absorbed in something as slight as the fall of light on a glass jar, Cunningham is fascinated by the eloquent detail: a dancer's leg arcing upward like a searchlight against the sky, the drift of weight in space when the body leans slowly backwards, dancers bounding across the stage like stones skipped across water. The patterns aren't only visual, either...
...Cunningham's greatest gift, as the performances last week made clear. His work explores the processes of the body, but its effect also allows the onlooker to explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...