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...Others counter that G.A.M.?with its classic guerrilla tactics and extensive local support?is far from being a spent force. Matt Davies, a former Indonesia analyst for Australia's Department of Defence who is working on a book about Aceh, says the military may have killed as few as 600-700 separatists. He adds that the security forces may have reported only 10% of their own casualties, which would mean that the two sides have suffered similar losses. As evidence of G.A.M.'s resilience, Davies and others note that none of its senior officials have been captured and that...
...politics, the fears. So there is a change in tone from earlier pieces. It's very calm, very concentrated on movement. You need calm at times like this." Calm is a new word for Bausch, 63, who was once dubbed the "wicked witch of German dance" for snubbing classics like The Nutcracker. Along with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham , she is one of the giants of modern dance. Having done away with formal balletic movements, she helped pioneer "dance-theater," a genre which fuses dance with bits of dialogue and song. Like real people, Bausch's dancers flirt, eat, drink...
...February, late March and early May), that electricity is palpable - partly because each revival is done only five or six times, partly because of the symbiosis between the dedicated professionals on stage and the knowledgeable enthusiasts in the seats. Thus every performance has the panache and portent of a classic Broadway opening night. The commercial musical theater still has its appeal, but for me Encores! is the toniest show in town...
...There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance numbers, were obliged to create - the musical settings. Topflight actor-singers signed on. And then the inspired rush to turn an old classic into a new one, all in a fortnight...
...Ives made a pretty, witty something of the script. Director Gary Griffin made it sing, sumptuously; Russell Warner touched up the orchestrations to these just-short-of-classic Gershwin songs; and Rob Ashford staged some sublimely silly choreography. (My notes read, "six dancing couples form a giant pretzel," but I may have been hallucinating.) In a nifty cast, I especially liked Felicia Finley, who played Magda the saucy parlormaid. Finley has looks, a voice and that ageless soubrette pertness - the total musical comedy package. But then, that's what you almost always get at Encores...