Photo of Dada Masilo as Giselle / By Stella Olivier

South African choreographer Dada Masilo re-animates Giselle

Low strings advance to a beat like incoming thunder. A lithe figure in red strikes the ground with an itshoba, a wooden rod. Myrtha, the queen of the Wilis, flexes firm shoulders and extends a bare foot … as South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo introduces a new Giselle to the ’62 Center of Theatre and Dance at Williams College.

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Pedro S. de Movellán sculpture / Photo by Kate Abbott

Kinetic sculpture brings international artists with local ties to Chesterwood

George Rickey’s metal forms caught the light and shifted in the wind. By that summer, he had shown them worldwide from Osaka to Berlin. In 1978, Maxwell Davidson met George Rickey for the first time at Rickey’s studio in East Chatham, N.Y. Davidson had opened his New York gallery 10 years […]

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