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...night stand at Central Park's Delacorte Theater in New York by the British troupe, which has been making its official U.S. debut at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Lee, Mass. This is a casual group that sometimes seems more inclined to do a cha cha cha than an entrechat. Rather like the American Ballet Theater, the Western Theater company wants to avoid dance in the abstract and stress the psychology of personal relationships and straight storytelling. Artistic Director Peter Darrell's hyperkinetic choreography accents every musical bar and beat with vigorous leg, hand...
...Like to Be Afraid) and Monzemba Pasi Na Elanga (To Be a Bachelor in Cold Winter Is Bad), both of which are rumbas. But they prefer what they call "educative" numbers built around an African nationalistic moral. Thus one of their biggest successes has been the Independence Cha Cha Cha...
...thousands and scores of thousands, they gave a cha cha cha rhythm to their chant of his name: "Kenn-e-dee! Kenn-e-dee!'' Women swooned while sighing "El macho divino" ("The divine he-man"). Carried away by his presence at Mass in San Jose Cathedral, the organist thumped out The Star-Spangled Banner, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and Yankee Doodle. Even the fact that his nose, after a weekend in Palm Beach, was pink and peeling, seemed to add to his appeal. Cried a teen-age girl in ecstasy: "Tiene...
Just then the conversation was drowned out by a group of young Cubans, bound for school in Russia, who broke into a revolutionary song with a cha cha beat ending up ''Cuba, si! Yanqui, no!" Russian passengers joined in the chorus...
Since Moonlight came out last February, it has sold a phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...