Costumes in this are simple, men bare chested in black tights, women in white shifts except for the red sacrificial "virgin." Interesting was also the lack of facial expression on all the characters, almost as if the characters were, in fact, not really human, but more ethers from Mother Nature. The wild abandonment of the female soloist, who finally bares her breast in an almost orgasmic frenzy moving from male to male with motions that seem fluid but primal.
3. Emanuel Gat's interpretation is the most contemporary interpretation of the three. Instead of focusing on a soloist and troupe, the scene opens with 3 couples, who, at times leave the central red box (lights) to work with the sacrificial virgin. The men are bald and all characters in black, the women have long, unbraided hair so that in the red light, the only real images we see are the skin on the dancers. The choreography, though, seemed less primitive and almost as if the characters were dancing in a 1920s speakeasy or Cabaret show.
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To Alyssa -- I particularly enjoyed your noting of the changing of partners, styles, and motions in the Stravinsky. You correctly pointed out the complications in the Gat piece, but I wondered which you thought communicated Stravinsky's...
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