Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem may be nothing more than a lack of faith on the part of Director Senelick and his cast, a conservative interpretation of the limits of any one style of characterization. But Miss Pitzele and Ivan Lamb, as a loyal butler who has kept alive on sealing wax for twenty years, offer fine examples of actors who established stature from with in a consistently played character...
Philadelphia has what amounts to a Balanchine road company in the Pennsylvania Ballet, founded by three of his former students. Rapidly shaping a style all their own, the Pennsylvanians scored a 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...
...audiences flocking to dance performances these days are getting more youthful all the time. Raised on TV and movies, a visually oriented younger generation finds something in the spectacle of the dance that turns on the mind's eye. Following a recent performance in Manhattan of John Butler's Ceremony, two flower children stopped the choreographer on the street. "You Butler?" said one. "Saw your ballet. You tell it like it is, man." Says Butler: "It was the best compliment I've ever been paid...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
...opening night, the Pennsylvanians dared a world premiere-and a difficult one it was. Ceremony, by protean choreographer John Butler, a Martha Graham disciple, is cast in the new mold of dehumanized abstraction that Balanchine recently demonstrated in Metastaseis & Pithoprakta (TIME, Jan. 26). The score for Ceremony, by Polish avant-garde Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, is an aggressive compendium of cacophonies-growlings, twitterings, bongs and clashes, punctuated by police whistles and sirens...