Humor – Still Images and Gifs
"His only surviving intact work from this period is The Gossipers, a rollicking miniature for five frantically chattering and gap-toothed babushkas who lurch wildly around the stage propelled by the urgent need to spread and collect gossip. Droll, witty, and farcical, it is a deft study of village types, not necessarily Jewish but abundantly peasant figures who converse in a physical language of spilling emotions. All of their exchanges are conveyed through racing movement phrases of skittering runs, eager listening postures, and comical collisions as each woman dashes off to spread the newest bit of hearsay she has just received."