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...certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan publishing party held in his honor last week. And how had the former mayor kept his own sanity during those trying years in City Hall? "We used to go to the theater ... to the ballet," answered John. "I read...
Blessed with a strong, trim build (she is 5 ft. 3 in., 115 lbs.), Dorothy has total body control, one reason she can land a jump so softly. That same sure strength allows her to perform skating's more difficult maneuvers gracefully. Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer whom she idolizes, Dorothy never shows preparation for a leap. She seems to hang nonchalantly in flight. Her most beautiful move is a delayed Axel in which she hangs suspended before completing 1½ revolutions in the air. Skating fanciers also admire Dorothy's spins: high-speed yet delicate rotations...
...embarked on that large, frightening and decisive immigrant's gamble: the ship to New York and the land of opportunity. In 1927, he won his initial Broadway designing credit for a show called 2 x 2 = 5. It was the first of 88 sets for theater, opera and ballet that bear his name. They include South Pacific, The Rose Tattoo, I Am a Camera, Bus Stop, Diary of Anne Frank...
EUROPEAN DANCE, however experimental (and The Polish Mime Ballet certainly is), tends to remain rooted in the art of theater. American dance, on the other hand, is often highly conceptual and not at all dramatic, a fact demonstrated by The Oberlin Dance Collective last week at the Radcliffe...
Remaining pieces, Kimi Okada's tap dance "Hit or Miss" and Pam Quinn's "A Coup from the Blues," return to beat and music and the exuberant physicality of dance. Yet, set against the style of The Polish Mime Ballet Theater, these two works preserve an American earnestness, steering clear of overmuch theatricality--or sensuality...