“Hide Hide the Cow’s Outside” was another piece I did for the Oberlin Dance Collective, back in 1976. It was assembled from found material, bits of text and music, many having to do with Calvin Coolidge, our most taciturn president. The performers all wore black, with tuned bells at their waists. Margot Crosman made a superlative Coolidge; she got to wear a hat. I was aiming for a maximum saturation of inter-association, each snippet resonating with all the others. Here’s the first page of it:
And a review, from Laura Shapiro in the Boston Globe, 1/20/76.
