Word: cragun
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...garlands and Hellenistic pageantry, Tetley retains only the theme of the legend to provide a scaffolding over which he has draped an elaborate visceral poem. In the Chagall-blue-and-aqua forest of Costume and Scenery Designer Willa Kim, Daphnis and Chloë, two innocents danced by Richard Cragun and Marcia Hay dee, are instructed in the art of love-making by Egon Madsen's lithe and sinuous...
...usual dance contest between Daphnis and the cowherd Dorkon, danced by Reid Anderson, for the reward of Chloë's kiss. The veil dance of Lykanion, the Grecian Salome, is gone too. Instead, German-born Ballerina Birgit Keil slithers into a hot pas de deux with Cragun, whose ardent body is counterpointed by his gentle face. Through her mellifluous movement, Haydée conveys a Chloë too ripe to be altogether innocent...
...ballet is a bravura double pas de deux using four of the company's top dancers. The dramatic Brazilian prima ballerina Marcia Haydee is partnered with the ebullient American Richard Cragun. Joyce Cuoco, who was discovered at Radio City Music Hall, dances with Egon Madsen from Denmark. They appear on an empty, side-lit stage in salmon-pink Lycra leotards shining like a second and highly sensual mermaid skin. Hans Werner Henze's Third Symphony, in turn compressed, then explosive, provides the cerebral score...
...that of classical dance, the positions are not. They are an exploration of every inch of space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that the intimacies never shock -except perhaps with...
...Cranko carries out the friendship gim mick by having the four principals periodically link up on stage in studied poses of togetherness. Initials takes flight, however, when the soloists are left to perform the stunning variations that Cranko has devised for them. R., in particular, stands for remarkable, when Cragun almost nonchalantly shows off his enormous technique in a variegated sequence of flawless, aerial turns. A visual feast of old golds and blues. Initials is a dazzlingly mounted tribute from a gifted choreographer to four gifted virtuosi. In their performances, R., B., M.and E. (and H. too) more than...