Look closely and you can see a small group of people who have left their work to gather on the pavement. This may be Koudelka’s only conceptual photograph, but it resonates as an iconic image of a tumultuous political moment in which there is no tumult – only an eerie silence in which time itself seems to have come to a halt. That the revolution had, indeed, been televised and centuries of racial injustice were over, sealed with a kiss. Michael BillingtonDance: ‘The spirit of anarchy on stage’Facebook Twitter Pinterest RainForest, performed by Merce Cunningham and company in 1968. But at the start of 1968, militant acts of choreography tended to focus on the artform itself, re-evaluating the language and conventions of dance.

Source: The Guardian April 30, 2018 04:52 UTC