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...weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mart. The ballet...
...Fille Mal Gardée represents a total contrast in mood. In the Royal's English version, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, it is like an animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat...
...American child is in fact many children; most are firmly rooted in their own time, a few wandering in the 19th and 21st centuries. Sylvia Ashton-Warner, a New Zealander who recently taught five-year-olds in Colorado, finds U.S. children "the advance guard of technology, with their long legs, proud faces and elongated bodies, the thrice great brains." But living as they are at what she calls "the spearpoint" of civilization, bombarded by TV and stereo sounds, they are becoming, she says, "psychic mutants...
...painting from colonial times to the present. The book is useful in that it handsomely gathers a vast amount of information as well as some 330 well-chosen illustrations. But of the six essays that make up the text, only those by Dartmouth Art Professor John Wilmerding and Dore Ashton are really good. The others range from the merely competent to the opaque. Another complaint: several abstract paintings are reproduced standing on their left sides-without indicating this curious fact to the reader...
...that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...