Word: turney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancers--Robert Cohan, Matt Turney, William Constanza, and chorus--turned in performances that I will long remember. Mr. Cohan, the director and choreographer, combined the forms of Near-Eastern folk, and modern, dance into scenes that left the audience breathless. The music was well suited to their dancing though it paradoxically did not give the singers enough good material to turn in convincingly dramatic performances, or even very interesting ones. The sung portions of the score were not particularly difficult, and the singers did not make too much of them. For the sake of continuity, I wish the spoken dialogue...
Lightning arced hotly around the stage in the lithe body of a girl in a metallic leotard (Matt Turney), rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world's pretensions. The girl's coolest, most contained movements, for instance, often prompted her partners to shatter the mood with explosive, calisthenic displays...
Degrees of Ability. Eugene T. Turney Jr., president of Anodyne Inc., a nameplate manufacturer, was so impressed that he built a special plant in Florida to use mostly disabled workers. Other Florida businessmen, spurred on by former Governor LeRoy Collins, have started a carbon copy of Abilities called Abilities, Inc. of Florida under Viscardi's active guidance. Similar projects are under way in Japan, Australia, India, New Zealand and Canada. Viscardi estimates that more than 5,000,000 Americans who have disabilities of some kind could work, but last year fewer than 500,000 got work, and about...