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...Russian, bolshoi means big. As applied to the Bolshoi Ballet, it means grandiose. Finishing up its final run in Manhattan before pushing off on a two-month cross-country junket, the Bolshoi last week clearly demonstrated that it possesses more depth and breadth in dancing talent than any other major ballet company. The latest evidence of this was the appearance of a pair of 24-year-old newcomers who seem surely destined to become the new superstars of ballet...
...vaudeville shows go, it might have been conjured up by Ed Sullivan on an LSD binge. Right there onstage in living, quivering color, a formation of UFOs performed an aerial ballet. A chap in fluorescent lemon leotards wrestled with a space-age cobweb. Next came a drill team of Martian types outfitted with glowing lampshades, then seven creatures in baggy sacks who squiggled like giant amoebas in heat-all to the otherworldly twaaang, ratatatat, whizzz and kapow! of electronic music. It was called Vaudeville of the Elements, Choreographer Alwin Nikolais' latest excursion into the twilight zones of modern dance...
What more could one ask for: well-built girls in revealing costumes, talented dancers of both ballet and modern, imaginatively choreographed dances, and good music. The Jazz Dance Workshop has been one of the best things around Harvard theatre for a long time. And they keep getting better...
...opening folk-music dances were saved from the uninspired musical background and the below-average chorus work by the brilliance of Eric Lessinger's ballet dancing. Together with Ilsa Koretsky, he exhibited impressive technical ability, and his portrayal of God in "The Creation" awed the entire audience...
...dancing is terrific. Even the chorus--which is usually the weak spot in JDW shows--looked good, especially in dramatic scenes like the entrapment of Bluesette. Ron Porter was his usual tough self, as Benito. Eric Lessinger, as Bernard, was a little to effeminate in his white ballet slippers, but perhaps that's the way the nice boy was supposed to look. And Shannon Scarry was excruciatingly seductive as Babe...