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...submitting ruefully to love's power. Seymour, an inspired actress, almost dances words as well as feelings. Ashton is one of ballet's supreme storytell ers. His pas de deux resemble poems. Dowell dances a sonnet with Natalia, a schoolboy's idyl with Vera, a naughty couplet or two with a coquettish maid. The clear dance designs, all curves and spirals, are infused with his classic sensibility. Let us hope for many another Ashton delight...
...evil and oppression. A special wish of luck goes to Josh Rubins, dean of students at the Summer School: If his musical comedies are as funny as his administrative talents, he's sure to be a smash on the Great White Way. When you leave Cambridge, remember the inspiring couplet incribed over the North Yard Gate: "Two, four, six, eight/Ford is a tool of the corporate state...
Shakespeare ends his entrancing balcony scene by giving Juliet a godawful valedictory couplet; and, when she is discovered apparently lifeless, the Nurse's "O woeful day" speech is embarrassing. Then there are those two short consecutive scenes that inflict the words "banished" and "banishment" on us no less than 26 times. Not even General St. Pe's repeated references to his "seventeen years" of marriage in Waltz of the Toreadors can come close to the numbing annoyance of this portion of Romeo...
...always the case -although others may argue that the reforms simply did not go far enough. In any case, the Journal, more in the spirit of 18th century toryism, will now use such words as revision and change -a more neutral vocabulary. Oliver Goldsmith caught the spirit with his couplet in The Traveller...
Yeats' oft-quoted couplet sums up the ideal of ballet-the ideal so rarely achieved. And no wonder. Classical dance is at once the most sensuous and the most abstract of the theatrical arts. Its essence is the interaction of music with the movement of male and female bodies-the erotic impulse styled and formalized by discipline and grace and shaped to a unified whole...