Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Everybody's Guide to Gus Solomons jr's Dances for Alternative Spaces
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Bib. Number0023332
Everybody's Guide to Gus Solomons jr's Dances for Alternative Spaces
Author/EditorSOLOMOM Gus, jr.
PublisherNew York Public Library
Place PublishedNew York
Year2016
Date & Collation25pp.Illus.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationArticle on Solomon's Dance Company. 20 reference to Red Squalls and Red Squalls II performance in the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, dancing on a stage set up on the plaza adjacent to the fountain. The location, with 'its stony, urban character was particularly unforgiving, mitigated only by amorphous Henry Moore sculpture in the reflecting pool and, near the entrance to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on the west side, the Alexander Calder stabile' . . . 'They alternated between doing simultaneous solos, warping the white, three-dimensional fabric of their costumes into bizarre silhouettes, and clumping together in tight group formations, which turned them into asymmetric masses echoing the Henry Moore sculpture in the pool'.