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...inspiration is visible at Broadway's Minskoff Theater, because the choreographer decided to duplicate West Side's original staging himself. It is the first time he has worked on Broadway since Fiddler on the Roof in 1964. The intervening years have been well spent: as a fellow ballet master with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet, he has added more than 30 works to that company's repertory. This winter, at N.Y.C.B., Robbins also revived Fancy Free, the ground-breaking ballet that first brought him fame in 1944. The story of three cavorting sailors...
...unlikely that Robbins, now 61, is going to rejoin his progeny by doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle Tom 's Cabin as the Siamese might do it [The King and I or a Mack Sennett ballet [High Button Shoes] or gritty backstage burlesque [Gypsy] or Jewish shtetl life [Fiddler]. I like doing the research, looking at the theatrical magazines of those periods or going through old photographs at the New York Public Library. Let's face it, a musical version of Little Women just...
Robbins prefers the greater freedom of pure ballet. He explains: "On Broadway, a choreographer must serve the show. He must deal with a given space dictated by the set, the qualities of the per formers and the songs, and the pressure of whatever else has to be rehearsed. I spend all my energy to get a lot of actors to make believe they're somebody else in front of an audience who knows they're not those people to start with. When I do a ballet, good or bad, it's all coming...
...elephant and the fable are both creatures of Mobil Oil Corporation, which recently produced a series of "issue oriented" commercials in fable form to accompany its Mobil Showcase television series "Edward and Mrs. Simpson." The elaborately-created ads, which feature stellar dance and mime groups, including the American Ballet Theater, promote the corporation's faith in laissez-faire capitalism and encourage the viewer to take stands against government control of profits, policy and company activities...
...commercials unbashedly make Mobil's point of view quite clear. Featuring, besides the American Ballet Theater, such performers as the Pilobolus dancers, Shields and Yarnell, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in roles as animals and other fable characters, they present allegories for modern business situations that cannot be considered "subtle." The fables are hard-driving. One declares that "nothing cripples innovation and enterprise like heavy-handed regulation." Another describes an ideal society of animals, played by Lar Lubovitch dancers in sparkling and outlandish costumes. The storyteller for the three-minute dance-and-cartoon visual presentation tells of an elephant...