Word: balletic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world glitters these days with opportunities to forget the rigors of the winter in a bout of self-indulgence. The theater, opera and ballet seasons are in full swing. Stores are about to burst forth with displays of brightly colored dresses and lightweight suits foretelling the not-quite-imminent spring. Airlines and travel agencies sing siren songs of palm trees bending in soft Caribbean breezes. And all these delights can be savored without dipping into the cash that must be hoarded to pay those monstrous winter fuel bills. Just flash a few rectangles of hard plastic embossed with cabalistic numbers...
...revelation of the most simple thing: gesture, subsumed by rhythm, becomes dance. Dean makes use of a steady pulse to cohere a broad range of movement qualities, sharp and sustained, weighty and light, and movement styles--ballet and tap are two she uses...
Engaged. Patricia Bowman, 67, the "American Pavlova" who opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932 with Ray Bolger, later danced with Ballet Theater; and Albert Kaye, 75, retired theatrical producer, who 40 years ago had hired her to choreograph a ballet. At the time, Kaye proposed to Bowman, but she refused to mix marriage and a career. Last fall Widower Kaye proposed again, and this time she accepted...
...they dance beautifully. The company members study ballet as well as modern; their fluid ease in moving can only be termed classical. Lubovitch too can be thought of as a classical choreographer in that he subordinates personal statement to an expression of the beauty and power of the corps. He doesn't advocate any one point of view as to the use of music, choreographic form, or movement style. Instead, he takes what he needs where he finds it: in the traditions of ballet, in the techniques of Graham or Humphrey, in the post-modern aesthetics developed by his contemporaries...
This type of company probably couldn't have existed twenty years ago. The dance world then was too polarized between the spheres of ballet and modern, and modern choreographers themselves were divided; dances were ideological statements. Today Lubovitch takes for granted the freedom to work in any style; his dancers are able to attack any movement with the lightness of ballet or the strength of Graham or the breathiness of Humphrey. Lubovitch can allow each dance to create its own technique and aesthetic...