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...cryptic; her dances are only sketches of her intent. But the 19 other dancers-nine male, ten female-in her company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot and poised in an artificial balance achieved by great feats of technique, the dancers rarely touch except to depict conflict or lust. Each dance seems a ritual from the infernal rites Graham...
...Lampe d'Aladin. Its success plunged the reedy young poet into the world of Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Many give him credit for scattering ideas in a dozen surrealistic arts, but it will never be clear precisely who inspired (or copied) whom. Of Cocteau's ballet, Parade, Andre Gide wrote: "Cocteau knows the sets and costumes are by Picasso and the score by Satie, but he wonders if Picasso and Satie...
Strength & Grace. The troupe is small and select, a circus minimus with only 63 performers chosen from 7,000 who tour Russia in multiple subdivisions of the state circus. The performers are young, graceful, good-looking, and built like red bricks. Mixing biceps and ballet, with an orchestra adding swatches of Tchaikovsky and Khachaturian, their show might well have been called Brawn Lake...
...Naxos, American opera debuts to such singers as Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Boris Christoff, Sandor Konya and Sutherland. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has yet to sing at New York's Metropolitan, has been appearing in San Francisco since 1955. On good nights, the opera's chorus and ballet are matchless in the U.S., and some of San Francisco's stage sets make the Met's look as if they were built by tenors. Still, the Met dwarfs Adler's company with the kind of ease that inflames. The Met has more money, its own orchestra...
...candidates whose names are on the ballet, only--George P. , Jr., running for city --is a Republican. He party afflictions are listed, but it has been 15 years since a member of the GOP has been elected to municipal office in Boston