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...tell the dancers from the dance? was the question that Yeats posed. In the case of the Australian Ballet's new version of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, the difference is all too readily apparent. The show, now at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and scheduled to play in New York and London, is opulently and ebulliently staged; it makes a refreshingly short, diverting summer evening at the theater. But it is not really a ballet. The dancers move through production numbers stitched together by recitatives of mime. They smile brilliantly, toss back their heads...
Edward Villella, D.F.A., premier danseur of the New York City Ballet...
Belated Clemency. There were among Taylor's clients, as he puts it, "no poets, or ballet dancers or famous scientists-no Solzhenitsyns, Panovs, or Sakharovs"-i.e., personalities with the kind of repute that might ensure an international outcry and possibly have an effect on the Kremlin. Taylor only went public with this unique, and hitherto discreetly quiet, legal-aid effort after it became clear that the only response obtainable from Soviet legal authorities was either embarrassed obfuscation or pure stony silence. Still Taylor has some faint hope. Months after the project ended in 1975, one of the 19 defendants...
Jacques D'Amboise, D.F.A., premier danseur of the New York City Ballet...
...Unfortunately, the sappy stretches go after the viewer with the insistent momentum of a molasses tidal wave and one wonders where Chaplin comes off with the nerve of portraying the persecuted as these sweet-eyed Jews the puts on the screen. Paulette Goddard really gets insufferable, but the globe-ballet is perhaps the most wondrous piece of screen acting of the greatest artist in all movies. In both the good and bad ways, this picture helps one remember the story about W.C. Fields and the writer who asked him who the world's greatest comedian was. "I am," said Fields...