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This time there were four ballets new to the U.S. by the company's leading Choreographer Frederick Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
...Real Home. John Cranko's Lady and the Fool was a romantic period piece set to little-known Verdi music-the story of an imperious beauty, well danced by statuesque Beryl Grey, who spurns aristocratic lovers and goes off with a clown. If the choreography seemed unoriginal and the story flimsy, the dandies were properly elegant, the flirts suitably flouncy, the clown appealingly...
Although it has half a satchelful of new works in its American repertory, e.g., Principal Choreographer Frederick Ashton's Homage to the Queen and Daphnis and Chloe and John Cranko's The Shadow, most of Sadler's ten works are story ballets in the romantic tradition. But modernity and novelty are not everything: the company's four weeks at the Met are almost completely sold out, and its 15 weeks on the road are solidly booked...
...Dante's Interno. The mystic mood is extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu is one of the most powerful and graceful dancers that I have seen in this medium. Praise should also go to John Cranko for the fresh, wierd choreography and to John Piper for effective costumes and decor...