Stomp – interactions
If "Stomp" is predominantly an exuberant display of physical prowess and ensemble coordination, at moments it also becomes a comic exploration of the psychological interactions within a group. Each of […]
If "Stomp" is predominantly an exuberant display of physical prowess and ensemble coordination, at moments it also becomes a comic exploration of the psychological interactions within a group. Each of […]
The action takes place on a two-level scaffold hung with road signs and automobile parts, suggesting a cheerily surreal garage for storing scrap metal. In a typical number, one performer […]
The 90-minute show is banged, tapped, swished, clicked and clomped by eight choreographed percussionists. A modern vaudeville revue with a rock-and-roll heart, it is part tap-dance display (using some of […]
Stomp, an irresistibly energetic percussion troupe, may have found a solution to the garbage crisis. Instead of throwing junk away, why not recycle it as rhythm? In the group’s self-titled, […]
The “action” of the pictures is, in other words, almost entirely photographic. Visual detectives manipulate his scenes not to manufacture drama or to bunch people into near-collisions but to create […]
There is “something happening in every frame,” but it is hard to imagine how less could be going on without the pictures being digitally purged of people. In the background […]
The sensed absence of time — the result, paradoxically, of an unusual amount of it being accumulated within each picture — is accentuated by another lack that deepens the enveloping […]
People are rooted to the ground by the effort of ostensibly traversing it, as oddly static as the figures in Hopper’s paintings. So the pictures look like records of a […]
The past can be seen emerging from a slight haze, just down the road. That haze can sometimes be more than slight: In the very last image in the book—and […]
The strange thing about this strangeness is that, to anyone who knows the city, these pubs, post offices and people all look so familiar. The wartime trauma infuses the mood […]