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America does have its fans in Europe, of course, especially in parts of the former East bloc. "Having been a country under dictatorship, we are characterized by a veneration for big, important and powerful countries," says Brunilda Kondi, a lecturer in American culture at Albania's University of Tirana. To help the university keep up with growing demand for courses, the American Embassy there organizes summer programs on U.S. culture. In other corners of Europe, even where opinions of America are low, a desire to learn English and engage with the West is strong enough to attract students. According...
...critical hit recently with the world premiere of John Butler's Ceremony, a frank, sexy study of fear and alienation. Even more ambitious is the Harkness Ballet, which now has ten former Jeffrey dancers to count on, at least two soloists (long-haired Lawrence Rhodes and sultry Brunilda Ruiz) of star magnitude, and the staggering total of 20 newly commissioned dances in its repertory. Still another inventive company is the one founded by Mexican-born José Limón, whose choreography-as in The Winged, an hour-long evocation of birds in all their variety-blends the psychological...
...director, the youthful (average age: 22) Harkness troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak...
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