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SUNDAY: Sleeping Beauty. Rudolf Nureyev and Veronica Tennant star in Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet. Filmed by emmy-winner Norman Campbell at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre. CH. 2. 7 p.m. Color...
...National Bank of Labor, injuring 14 persons. That same afternoon, two bombs blew pieces of marble off Rome's Victor Emmanuel monument; three pedestrians were hurt. Police in the two cities promptly went into action. Three days later in Milan, they arrested Pietro Valpreda, 37, a sometime ballet dancer and member of an anarchist group called "March 22" (after the 1968 rebellion of French students at Nanterre University); seven people affiliated with the organization were also picked up in Rome. Valpreda and two other March 22 members were subsequently charged with strage (massacre) in the Milan bombing, a crime...
International Performance. The acclaimed PBS series presents Ravel's opera ballet "L'Enfant et les Sortileges." CH. 2, 9 p.m. Color...
...fashionable. One of the best of American mimes, Goslar is a dumpling of a woman with a turned-up nose and a turned-down figure that often resembles a lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown in a cage (Circus Scene), it became clear that she is not the only one who wears the pantaloni in her deliciously...
...tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line that characterized his first big success, The Moor's Pavane, which is still a favorite with the American Ballet Theater. Less striking but still provocative were Dances for Isadora, which drew on the Duncan story to fashion a subtle metaphor of death-in-life and life-in-death, and Carlata, a mad court fantasy (danced to silence) about the widow of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Where is the permanent...