走进林肯中心的尼古莱舞台魔法世界展览_慕容习习

前来观看的观众大部分都是上了年纪的人。我发现，美国的老人在这个社会中还是很活跃的，之前老是听说什么“美国是老年人的坟墓！”可我发现更应该是“性格决定命运”！这个社会中，老年人大多仍然在享受着多姿多彩的生活和工作，只要身体允许，工作到80岁以上，娱乐到80岁以上有什么问题呢！因此在剧场里、在图书馆里、在博物馆里，在学术会议中，老年人的身影并不少见。

昨晚的主持人也是一位老者，这位个子高高瘦瘦的老太太走路已经不敏捷了，但思维还是挺活跃的。在放映尼古莱的作品前后，她都会做一番讲解。实际上，她就是展览的策划人，一位研究尼古莱的资深舞蹈史学家。

尼古莱虽然我并不陌生，但之前在中国我观看他的作品并不多，Youtube又上不去，所以对他的视觉记忆并不深刻，只是一些文字印象……这哪里成呢？我应该补课！一个月之前的展览以及昨晚的影像观摩，让我对这位“舞台魔术师”开始有了进一步的了解。很巧合哦，前天晚上我刚看完瑞士的默剧，今晚美国的尼古莱，完全与“舞台魔幻”撞在一起了。70年代以后的作品，欧美都开始有了很大的变换，这些顶尖级别的表演艺术团体的创始人虽然已经逝去，但是他们的作品已经成为表演艺术历史上重要的里程碑，正如NEA的座右铭之一：伟大的国家配得上伟大的艺术。能够称得上伟大的现代艺术的，没有三、五十年的积淀完全不行。

尼古莱充分调动了舞台和新媒体的技术手段，不过他也不完全靠这些技术手段，“身体语言”仍然是最为重要的。只是道具可以延伸肢体、变形肢体、隐匿肢体……可以给肢体造成各式各样的视觉幻象甚至是错觉；他也喜欢利用色彩、器械给舞台上的肢体带来神奇的变化；正如克劳迪娅这位老太太说的那样，就纯粹的肢体语言来看，尼古莱还是很“古典份儿”的，比较讲究平衡、对称、协调。

在昨晚观看的作品中，我更喜欢NOUMENON和LIMBO。前者是巧妙运用了服饰作为道具，制造了三个神奇的舞台形象，真的仿佛“来自外星球”的某种生物；后者则利用电视、光影、色彩等技术手段创造出离奇的人体分身的效果。

Nikolais was the magician of mid-twentieth-century modern dance, setting shapes and colors in kaleidoscopic motion. The New York Public Library of the Performing Arts is celebrating the centennial of his birth with an exhibit, and, in designing his own sets, costumes, lighting, and scores for four decades, Nikolais gave a curator a lot to work with. Performance videos and interviews from 1956 on, including pioneering work in television, offer many windows into the past, while projections on the big white tent from “Tent” (1968) give a sense of the original scale.

Date: October 21 – January 15

Venue: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Venue Address: 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, N.Y.

York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Choreographer Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) was a master of stage illusion. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is a partner in celebrations of his centennial. Gallery visitors will experience amazing lighting effects Nikolais created, hear sound he composed, examine costumes he designed, and see videos of his stage dances and ground breaking works for television. Nikolais was also a dance theorist, educator, and spokesman for the arts. This exhibition brings to light the career of one of the most versatile, innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century.

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On display for the first time will be artifacts, documents, designs, and photographs from the archival collections of the Performing Arts Library. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division holds the bulk of material, while Theater and Recorded Sound are also represented, as would be expected of an artist who considered all production resources to be integral and indispensable elements of his Total Theater of Motion.

Additional materials are on loan from Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, at Ohio University. The Paris Opera, the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers, France, the American Dance Festival, and the Library of Musical Instruments at University of Michigan lent items as did private individuals. The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance provided performance elements and cooperated in assembling the exhibition.

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Screenings: Alwin Nikolais on Film | The New York Public Library

http://www.artdaily.com/imagenes/2010/10/25/The-NewYork-2.jpg Labyrinth of the Rays (choreographed by Alwin Nikolais). Photograph by Fred Hayes of a revival performance by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Courtesy of the Nikolais Louis Foundation for Dance.

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Labyrinth of the Rays (choreographed by Alwin Nikolais). Photograph by Fred Hayes of a revival performance by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Courtesy of the Nikolais Louis Foundation for Dance.