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...nobody's hair is acteristically turned to the audience when the lights came up, washed...

...That generation's passionment in its efforts to preserve order in Matabeleland, the ate commitment to humanistic values lingered on through the bishops condemn "methods which have been adopted...

...to, a seat where she twists and turns agitatedly...

...The message was they state their clear opposition to certain Marxist principles: the choreographers' facility in presenting flowing designs of atheism, class warfare as a means of positive transformation of increasing complexity...

...But in than-expert hands became tedious...

...Neat footwork THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR is a paleolithic Perils of and baroque gesture were smoothly combined, and the hom- Pauline...

...Comrade Emmerson Munangagwa: "In this region Morris, like his contemporaries in the under-thirties group, [Matabeleland], security forces, acting in concert with each matured into a world of experimentation in which mechanical other, particularly on intelligence pertaining to these dissi- repetition, drone music, and unisex handling of roles were the dents, will be more efficient in their efforts to eradicate these norm...

...They tell me that the C.I.O...

...Central Intelligence Organization, modeled on the K.G.B...

...He enters by Instead, we get sloppy Southern Californians, especially one happily bounding toward her...

...tion of form with minimal emotional display became an honest In a later pastoral statement of January 1, 1985, the bishops way to work...

...The music selected for these explorations has rushed off with the music stand on which was placed a differbeen equally eclectic, including modernist player piano com- ent drawing to indicate the subject of each dance...

...But one longs for the to any great extent...

...There was a variety of reasons for such self-imposed statement, the Catholic bishops directly addressed the problem limitations, the most notable one being a distrust of the heroic of the brutal suppression of ZAPU and the persecution by the convictions that shaped modern dance in the period between government of the Matabele people...

...It's anthropology according to the Mall: age underlined, by having the dancers' backs unchar- everyone is American but grungy...

...And they "appeal to the govern- technique, its discipline and purity, had an integrity not to be ment to use its authority to put an immediate stop to these found elsewhere...

...The C.I.O...

...There was a definite aridity Zimbabwe, government authorities do not seem to be listening built into the rigorous honesty of continuously elaborated form to the voice of religion...

...Here the twentieth-century from its source, Jean Auel's best seller on the transition berhythms of Stravinsky were used by the dancers, moving tween Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man, those who have vigorously in profile...

...For the opening with style has led him to examine the work of the heroic song he combined vigorous marching with mock clumsy poses twenties and thirties and the decidedly anti-heroic sixties and after starting with a paper bag over his head...

...He looks fright- similarities rather than differences of bodily form...

...Alone at first, she flees from, and returns anatomically: its Neanderthals have no sloping foreheads...

...Retreat From Madrid" showed an ingenious use of eighteenth-century dance conventions to a Boccherini score of the same name...

...They only to have them conclude with a polite bow facing forward at may talk in guttural language, chant some, and practice the end...

...The Cro-Magnon intruder is at least visually buries his face vampirishly in her neck before the final lift convincing: she is that Viking exclamation point, Daryl Hanoffstage...

...with diminished content...

...To a great extent, they are He works with a medium-sized ensemble of fourteen dan- knowing commentaries upon dances of other times or other cers, devising solos and full company dances in addition to cultures as Morris tries one style and then another, pausing pieces for almost every other numerical grouping in between...

...presentation but totally unsatisfied by the lack of emotional "I Love You Dearly," danced by Guillermo Resto to a effect...

...again say that they "are deeply saddened by the suffering of Such studied concentration was elegant in its simplicity, many people and the senseless loss of life caused by disunity, subtle in inventiveness, and leisurely in development...

...the shaping of the dance was distinctly modern in sophisticaHe has sought to reconcile both impulses by extracting tion...

...To what degree this ethnocentrism in the film derives women and two men in "Frisson...

...the maiming and death of hundreds and hundreds of innocent The erosion of all institutions during the sixties and sevenpeople...

...Accordingly, a cool mathematical manipulaexcesses" ("Reconciliation Is Still Possible," Easter, 1983...

...MORRIS DANCING The main days for torturing seem to be Monday, Tuesday, MODERNIST & TRADITIONALIST and Wednesday...

...long enough to savor each before moving on...

...The Bulawayo newspaper The Chronicle the process of finding it continues to be a tantalizingly enjoyfor August 28, 1985 quotes the Minister of State Security, able event in the vanguard modern dance world...

...The style was folk, but Eliot Feld Ballet...

...The relationship is never clearly spelled out and its nah (the mermaid in Splash), whose acting here is perhaps humor derives from the contrast of her straightforward fortunately limited to a few grunts, some hand gestures, and a 28 February 1986: 111...

...In a romantic mood, Morris devised a duet rama in stone-age drag, plus a pinch of mysticism...

...Morris is a musically sensitive choreographer, as he demon- Screen strated last December in his most recent series of programs at Dance Theater Workshop...

...At least, local residents tell me, that is when you can hear the screaming - especially at night...

...The resultant works tended to be presented on clear stages The bishops have also confronted the Marxist orientation of unencumbered by naturalistic props or decors...

...crowd noises, "low" art pop, country and western, and As with all of the pieces presented during this season and "high" art Handel, Stravinsky, Vivaldi and the "three B's," previous ones, the viewer was repeatedly impressed with the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, among others...

...To a great extent the work of the leading-edge choreogworrisome individuals...

...The dramatic Having a cup of tea with a lay official of the Catholic Justice potential of encounters between male and female dancers was and Peace Commission, I ask why the commission has made diffused by assigning highly similar movements to all and by no ' statement concerning the brutalities and atrocities of gov- carefully restricting costuming so that it emphasized ernment police and soldiers in Matabeleland...

...animism, but their sense of time and self make them folks ' jes A similar two-dimensional look was presented by the three like us...

...and fifties when younger choreographers began to find fewer and have degenerated into brutality and atrocity," bringing about fewer values worth such unquestioned devotion...

...raphers was precise, emotionally restrained, and highly conWhat stand has the Catholic church in Zimbabwe taken with centrated on form rather than content...

...He was a modernist by heritage, having danced in the Rumanian folk tune, was equally amusing for its ambiguity...

...Yet they 14 ARK MORRIS is a bright, keenly intelligent choreogcan still hear the screams hundreds of yards away...

...outright fear later, when I walk past the "Stops and Ross Camp" just behind the Catholic bishop's house and the Dance Dominican sisters' convent...

...It also hatred, and ruthless hunger for power...

...In an Easter, 1983 question...

...companies of Laura Dean, Lar Lubovitch and Hannah Kahn, Each stanza of the song begins with Resto upstage in a similar but a traditionalist by conviction, starting his career with the pose and develops into a series of appropriate solos echoing the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble and briefly appearing in the music, but not slavishly following it...

...ened, and well he might be...

...his first solo appearances at the beginning of the They operate directly under Prime Minister Mugabe, and eighties...

...The younger modern ings, and rapings...

...limited vocabulary of movement and gesture...

...tortures people, sometimes to death, in an eight-cell block in the center of the extensive camp...

...The tone was positions by Conlan Mancarrow, electronic music with sports gently ironic and humorous throughout...

...Commonweal: 110 Morris found himself attracted to the technical aspects of the simplicity and his sinister ambiguity...

...and they walk stooped...

...characteristic movement styles from their historical contexts Morris's own solo, "The Vacant Chair," was sensitively and presenting choreographic sketches in the manner of the reflective of the three widely differing songs he chose, includoriginals, while remaining detached from the convictions of ing a setting of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees...

...The DON McDONAGH spectator is thereby encouraged to concentrate on suitably lit movement and to listen attentively...

...In the final song, seventies, as well as bedrock folk dance forms and classical "End of a Perfect Day," he clomped around disjointedly and conventions...

...rapher whose inventiveness has been apparent from uses modern methods of torture, including electric shock...

...To that he offered the artistic climate which produced them...

...This preoccupation tree-like configurations of the torso and limbs...

...The film is modern melodcardboard cutout...

...The bishops state that "the facts point to a reign of ties left political, educational, religious, and artistic husks terror caused by wanton killings, woundings, beatings, burn- where vital organisms had once been...

...This recent statement became increasingly hermetic as it fed upon itself, deriving is weaker than the 1983 pastoral letter...

...In their pastoral statement of January 1, 1984 movement clean as a whistle in limbo space...

...Supporting the govern- the First and Second World Wars...

...This is the principal police base in i Matabeleland...

...It was briefly exhilarating but in lesssociety, and government force when persuasion fails...

...The effect was like seeing an animated read the book will have to decide...

...As in all the police camps in the south, the C.I.O...

...The process is Scenery doesn't seem to interest him, nor does stage apparatus intriguing, entertaining, and intelligent...

...for himself and Teri Weksler, "One Charming Night," set to The film doesn't even bother to distinguish its cave people four Purcell songs...

...He costumes his works simply, colorfully, real Mark Morris to stand up and speak for himself...

...If his own choreographic voice is as yet unfocused, answer only to him...

...regard to the professed Marxism of the ruling party, ZANU, The dedicated integrity of such work was not and is not in and the drive toward a one-party state...

...During the course of the duet he hero whose open-mouthed expression seemed frozen in a is restrained in contrast to her emotional abandon, though he vacuous "wow...

...It was a formal dance for ZOOMING DOWNHILL two couples who each demonstrated an elegance of gesture in CAVE BEAR & BRAZIL approaching the audience, and then equally gracefully circled back upstage walking...

...But both statements are meaning from the demonstration of proficiency with a severely courageous...

...It was a deft use of the older custom of dancing full out only while facing the audience...

...craft and variety of Morris's dances...

...does its torturing and killing here...

...and appropriately, with a nod to gender differentiation...

...No statement is planned...

...their furs are greasy...

...The result was the government...

...They point to starvation in some areas due dancers without any network of agreed-upon values to which to government troops having deliberately cut off supplies of to hitch their artistic futures decided that the inherent worth of food and any access to food...