[Tango-L] Tango trivia: Robert Rauschenberg and La Boca

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Here is a link to the page Charles mentions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/dance/14coll.html?ref=arts


--- On Wed, 5/14/08, Crrtango at aol.com <Crrtango at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Crrtango at aol.com <Crrtango at aol.com>
> Subject: [Tango-L] Tango trivia: Robert Rauschenberg and La Boca
> To: TANGO-L at mit.edu
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 11:18 AM
> The American artist Robert Rauschenberg died Monday.   He
> was multifaceted 
> and worked in many media, including photography, using his
> own photographs in 
> his work, which ranged from set designs for contemporary
> dance to paintings and 
> prints. He was not known for dancing tango but he obviously
> visited Buenos 
> Aires.   On the front page of the Arts section of the New
> York Times this morning 
> (Wed. 5/14) is his set design for one of Merce
> Cunningham's pieces, 
> "Interscape."   The vivid cubistic area in the
> lower right corner of the backdrop will 
> be familiar to most of us who dance tango...it is the
> colorful painted tin 
> facades of La Boca.
> 
> Cheers,
> Charles
> 
> 
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