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...includes not only the Review itself and its four planned offspring, but also the theatrical programs distributed at New York's Lincoln Center and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center. Charney and Veronis have plans for a Saturday Review book series (first subject: culture, featuring volumes on ballet, opera, etc.) and Saturday Review Special Projects, offering subscribers book and record packages, sculpture, lithographs and, as the supersalesmen say, other "items of high quality offering a particularly good value...
There are times when an evening with the City Center Jeffrey Ballet looks and sounds more like a late night at a discotheque. Still a popular item in the company's often scintillating but insubstantial repertory is Director Robert Jeffrey's Astarte, a mixed-media tour de force duet that throbs to an ear-pounding score by a group called the Crome Syrcus. Another audience favorite is Choreographer Gerald Arpino's exuberant, medieval-rock celebration. Trinity. Last week, as part of its fall season at Manhattan's City Center, the troupe gave the premi...
...Joffrey alumna, Miss Sappington both created and performed in the nude adagio of Oh!, Calcutta! She clearly has an eye for the unexplored erotic potential of the body in ballet. Weewis -the title's meaning is still its creator's secret-presents three couples who appear to exemplify the varying moods of love (definitely profane). The first couple (Gary Chryst and James Dunne) is composed of two Latinate boys in candy-striped leotards, who shuck and jive about the stage like bodega gauchos trying out for a revival of West Side Story. They end their number with...
...police brutality," but it is also a Keystone copout. Why do the vaudevillian police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...
...Impressive as Picasso's Cubism now seems, it won no immediate public recognition for its creator. That came only in 1917, when Impresario Serge Diaghilev commissioned Picasso to design a new ballet, Parade, with music by Erik Satie. Picasso went to Italy with the ophidian prodigy of the salons, Poet Jean Cocteau, to work on the sets and costumes. The motifs he encountered there inspired a series of stout, monumentalized "neoclassical" compositions (33-35). From then on, Picasso had a repertory for his Arcadia: the vine-wreathed gods and nymphs, the Minotaurs and classic busts, the disjecta membra...