Backstage Pass

Masterful performers, like masterful painters, are not merely adept at convincing mimicry; they possess the conscious or unconscious ability to guide others into powerful insight. Behind the lights, piles of tulle and sequins battered from many performances into cloth graffiti, cakes of make-up, hurrying dancers and actors preparing in the background. Entr'acte [above], began at a figure drawing session in a theater, and its subject, portrayed with polish and neutral poise in the original drawing, has taken on an air of intensely private contemplation and the anticipation of the wings. . .