Word: visualizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nikolais creates dances with complex visual surfaces. To view one of his works a second time, it seems, wouldn't lead you more deeply into the piece, only let you take in more of its shell. Simply-structured choreography underlies Nikolais's dazzling surfaces. In Sanctum the eye is stunned by a painter's palette of light flickering over living massed forms--dancers bound in giant loops of fabric. Here Nikolais uses group unison, one of the most basic patterns in choreography. He matches simple movement phrases with blocks of time. Each dancer executes a phrase at the moment...
...Visual and Environmental Studies Department has encountered difficulties in opening its program to non-honors concentrators that it did not anticipate when its faculty voted last fall to change the restricted status of its program...
Arthur L. Leob, head tutor of VES, and Robert G. Gardner, chairman of the Visual Studies Department, met last week with a Faculty Council subcommittee to discuss the proposed change...
Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty, said last week some members of the Committee on the Administration of Educational Policy, the Faculty Council subcommittee, feel Visual Studies is a department in which "the important part of the subject is the thesis and the individual instruction involved...
...Lovborg, a raucous genius and former lover of Hedda's; and Jennie Linden as a woman who idolizes him and stirs Hedda's jealousy-all are like windup toys that can be counted on to repeat the same tricks over and over. Nunn's bursts of visual inspiration are similarly mechanical. When Hedda, talking to a flirtatious Brack, looks out the window and sees her husband returning home, she reflects with amusement, "The triangle is complete." Nunn cuts to a three-shot, a triangulated composition with Tesman at the apex. That kind of literal-mindedness paralyzes...