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![]() Joan Mitchel and Doug Varone have poetry in their art. | ![]() In Joan Mitchell painting memories, images, and movement are re-emerging in color and shape, just like Varone dancers | ![]() The dancer's skin shows through the fabric. The transparency turns into groups of dancers that fill the space. | ![]() Dancers play with a synthetic arrangement, which adds and subtracts from a whole. It is like Joan mitchell's canvases before and after the paint moves from an idea to something tactile. | ![]() "colors are multi-valent" -Judith E. Burnstock |
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![]() This is a quiet dance like a flicker in a candle light | ![]() The relationship between the dancers is close, barely touching, and then they seperate | ![]() Hand gestures | ![]() The angle is so important -Kenneth Metzner | ![]() Folded is dark piece. the two dancers are intertwined by the arms and become one. |
![]() | ![]() The finale is an illussionistic effect, I try to catch moments like this in every performance I review. Spectacular! | ![]() Opening with Recomposed | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() "a short burst of mangenta strikes a note too high..." -Kraus Keress | ![]() This is another moment that was really spectacular. It was as iff the dancer was holding onto something thing - the impetus energy was about to explode in a vibrating motion. | ![]() The change in style is noticably different from Joan Mitchell's paintings in 1960 than1980. The nature of painting is described as a veiled poem in the "Fresh Air School" exhibition of Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, and Walasse Ting. -1972 Carnegie Institute Museum of art |
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