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Collage of Culture. Joined by their wives, who had spent the day at the famous Moscow Circus School, the two leaders went to the Bolshoi Theater Friday night for a superb collage of Soviet culture, bits of ballet, opera, folk singing, Cossack dancing and even a chorus of Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses...
...Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., then shuttled between Paris and Mills until 1971. All the while...
...ballet is a bravura double pas de deux using four of the company's top dancers. The dramatic Brazilian prima ballerina Marcia Haydee is partnered with the ebullient American Richard Cragun. Joyce Cuoco, who was discovered at Radio City Music Hall, dances with Egon Madsen from Denmark. They appear on an empty, side-lit stage in salmon-pink Lycra leotards shining like a second and highly sensual mermaid skin. Hans Werner Henze's Third Symphony, in turn compressed, then explosive, provides the cerebral score...
Tetley is determined to link modern techniques with classical form -hence the title Gemini. The ballet's main fault lies in the intensity with which Tetley states his position. Neither dancers nor audience have time to catch their breath for reflection on the extremities of motion and emotion to which they are constantly pushed. And Tetley is too new to the company to take fullest advantage of the dancers' contrasting personalities-for example, Haydée's Latin passion with Cuoco's sinuous California cool...
...statement of intentions from a self-described "Gemini person," the ballet flows directly from Tetley's twin-track career. Born 48 years ago in Cleveland, he took classical training, then studied modern dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm. In Europe since 1962, he has worked mainly with the Netherlands Dance Theater. There his most publicized work was Mutations, an hour-long essay on aggression that ended with the dancers literally stripped bare...