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Once daringly avantgarde, Parade today seems as revolutionary as, say, Coppelia. The Jeffrey dancers-notably Gary Chryst, who has frequently performed the original Massine role of the Chinese conjurer-have been wondrously successful in recapturing the setting and style of the original, and the work itself is performed in an engagingly ambivalent manner that seems to be saying both "Here it is, folks," and "Don't take all this too seriously." A little more of that frolicsome spirit might have helped Pulcinella. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other old Ballets Russes masterpieces just waiting for the Jeffrey treatment. Anyone...
Hoffmann works as an opera because its music is inventive and full of deft characterizing touches. There is no reason the storied fancies of E.T.A. Hoffmann cannot work as ballet too-as long since proved by Coppelia and The Nutcracker. This Hoffmann has a recomposed score by John Lanchbery that draws also on other colorful Offenbach works. But its choreographic steps and gestures are trite, even humdrum at points, and devoid of the kind of grand line that grand ballet at its best demands. (Ah, those outstretched arms signaling the courtesan's entrance-as in a silent film starring...
Study in Sadism. Still, ABT has the widest repertoire of any company around, ranging from admirable productions of such classics as Swan Lake and Coppelia, to The River, a bluesy work by Modern Dancer Alvin Ailey. The company diligently polishes up a few new ballets each season. In addition to Paquita and Tudor's restaging of Romeo, the current novelties include Ulf Gadd's choreography of The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok's horrific musical study in sadism, and an airy piece called Mendelssohn Symphony by a promising dancer-choreographer, Dennis Nahat...
Tuesday, November 25 NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Britain's Royal Ballet presents Coppelia, featuring Merle Park, Stanley Holden and Christopher Gable...
...Fidel Castro, Guerrilla Expert Che Guevara and "Carlos" Marx glowered from windows and walls of office buildings. Banners were strung here and there with the slogan: IF YOU WANT TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY, START A REVOLUTION. One of the proudest achievements of Castro's revolution-Havana's Coppelia Tee Cream Parlor-was dishing out more flavors (54), as it likes to boast, than even Howard Johnson does. In the crowded dining rooms of Havana's five "luxury" hotels, three waiters orbited eagerly around each table, smiling broadly, rushing about with plates piled with steaming food and refilling...