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...most affecting renditions of their adaptable story is the dance created by Antony Tudor in 1943 for the American Ballet Theater (then known as just plain Ballet Theater). Last week, after several years out of the repertory, it was revived and remounted by Tudor for the ABT summer season at Lincoln Center...
Tudor's mime-laden choreography is ably danced by the ABT soloists. The Juliet of the premiere was Italy's Carla Fracci, whose gentle, girlish way of evoking youthful passion is complemented by the stiff, manly Romeo of Ivan Nagy. If their individual dancing styles do not always mesh, Tudor nonetheless is still able to make disunity work for, not against, the production...
...through a Communist contact on the West Coast, and agreed to aid her escape. The FBI also has the two turning up at Poindexter's Chicago apartment and in Miami. In Chicago and Miami, the FBI says, they received money from the Communist Party apparatus. Last week John Abt, a veteran defender of the Communist Party, announced that he was going to take Angela's case. Shortly afterward, during a news conference at Communist Party headquarters in Manhattan, General Secretary Gus Hall said proudly, if by then redundantly, that Angela was indeed a party member...
...other being the State Theater's resident New York City Ballet-the company has always had difficulty finding an auditorium to serve as home base. When and if the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is completed (possibly by the end of 1971), ABT is due to become its resident dance ensemble. The designation, however, may be a token one. Already strapped for funds, the Center's sponsors are reluctant to offer a direct challenge to Washington's own sprightly National Ballet-at least not until capital audiences show a stronger appetite...
From this mixture of Old World outlook and New World recruits arose the quality that most distinguishes the ABT today: a meaningful eclecticism. From the start, the great European classics were produced with a breezy American iconoclasm that seemed to thumb its nose at "ballet" in favor of "theatre." That spirit bubbled to a boil in April 1944, when Robbins performed in his own Fancy Free, the first American dance classic to achieve wide popularity. The company has never been dominated by a single choreographer-as is George Balanchine's New York City Ballet-or a single choreographic outlook...