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36 “Cloud Gate Dance Theatre”: Three Dances I He bent the air like a reed greenly loined and a green dash over his chest Nijinsky’s Faun could have danced this way he landed like a sliding leaf silently on the balls of his feet He flies like a bird he hugs the floor like a frog he leaps like a springbok he sweeps the stage like an elf Elfin perfect elfin bright flesh made elfin elfin light II Never a cloud god so muscularly shown dancing at cloud level throughout hoisted up high on the shoulders of two others half dancers half shadows dressed in black he wears the mask of the god of thunder his many muscles bulge like so much cumulus he circumnavigates the stage like so many clouds 37 III They fell they splintered they exploded like Chinese New Year fire crackers to the sound of fire crackers Then their gestures changed they jerked and grimaced before they fell to the sound of bullets then a hail of bullets and complex variations of falling Then the lights of a tank shone straight at the audience one man stood firm then he jerked and fell ...

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