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Susan A. Manning

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Coy Characterizations

F OR THEIR AGASSIZ concert this past weekend, Jim and Lorry May chose five duets, all a certain sort of


Happy Feet

K IDS AND TEACHERS at East Somerville Community School performed an extraordinary dance last Saturday night. "May Day," choreographed by


Imaginative Scaffolding

S TUDENT CONCERTS are appropriate places for student critics, for the blunders of both young performers and reviewers can be


Knots and Bolts

T HESE LITTLE CONCERTS come out of nowhere. Steve Paxton, a member of the New York avant-garde dance circles for


Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur

N OT UNTIL curtain call on the second night, when choreographer Lar Lubovitch jumped forward to acknowledge the applause of


dance

Reading the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times is usually a frustrating experience for dance lovers away


The Mind Is a Muscle

W ORK 1961-1973, a well-organized compilation of notes, essays and scripts by performer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer, is an extraordinary book. Piecing


At the Still Point

I N THE MIDDLE of the concert I leaned over and whispered to a friend, "I still don't know what


Dance

In the late 18th century Bostonians arrived at the theater around 6 p.m. and stayed through a full-length production of