THOMAS J. LAX: Jimmy Waring created these costumes for a duet called Strelitzia by Aileen Passloff. Waring was one of the most eccentric figures in the Judson choreographers.
ANA JANEVSKI: He believed in drawing inspiration from every day life and experiences. He often collaged costumes together of random things he found in the street.
AILEEN PASSLOFF: We weren't allowed to pass a garbage can without looking into it, anything that we had that [we] thought could be useful went to Jimmy.
The costume itself came from a thrift shop. There was an evening gown and it was very cheap. Jimmy cut the skirt in half—that made it into two skirts, and the top was a sheet, and some old gloves, and tassels he found, and then a piece of fur, so that there was this variety of textures there. There was a piece of net around our heads. And wires that went over our heads so that when we moved, they quivered. And the dance had that quivering feeling, like antenna.
AILEEN PASSLOFF: The music was by Richard Maxfield. It was called Night Music. This music was like a place you walked into. You could feel the music bathe you, so that dance was coming into a place filled with, like, a rainforest you know, that maybe had mosquitoes or insects in it. But anything could happen there in that music.