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A Chamber Dance Concert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Extract

Two women in white. The feet of one, red. The feet of the other, green. They begin to circle counter or clockwise and keeping opposite each other establish a circle whose radius is the span of the outstretched arm of either, reached toward the outstretched arm of the other, hands meeting palm to palm. Their stride is smooth and medium fast. Again and again their arms are lifted to check the measure, and dropped to let the elements settle into a constant dynamic equilibrium, as their bodies incline slightly toward the apex.

Consider the seven circles of the Star of David; one in the center surrounded by six others, all of the same size. Superimpose on these two more, forming a figure eight whose halves join on the center of the central of the seven circles.

After a time of circling together, one of the women steps along the radius, straight to the circle's center, which she then takes for a point along the circumference of another circle.

Type
Post-Modern Dance
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

The title photograph by Babette Mangolte is of Simone Forti and Pooh Kaye in a Chamber Dance Concert at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York on September 27, 1974.