Word: cullberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birgit Cullberg is a bun-haired, 51-year-old Stockholm matron who once planned to be a librarian. But while she was studying literature at the University of Stockholm, she discovered that cataloguing was not really her game: at the remarkably late age of 25 she gave it up to become a dancer. Since then, as one of Europe's most talked-about choreographers, she has been busy constructing her own five-foot shelf of bibliophilic ballets: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie. Last week she was in Manhattan to witness the premiere by the American Ballet Theatre...
While Ibsen required five acts to get his point across, Cullberg managed it in a few taut, well-constructed scenes. The curtain rose on a pony-tailed Ellida (Lupe Serrano), her back to the audience, her gaze fixed yearningly on a sea-green curtain. Presently the sailor (Royes Fernandez) appeared and, in a sequence of broad, sweeping movements, lured Ellida into a seductive dance that had the two of them writhing like a couple of fighting fish. The ballet's high point: a dream sequence in which the corps de ballet, got up to look like ocean creatures, came...
...Birgit Cullberg feels, she has only begun to tap the library. "Dance movement," says she, "can express things not talked, not possible...
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