Word: dancer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present methods of fitting dance to music or music to dance, or combining the two by a rough collaboration between composer and choreographer, often produce conflicting feeling between movement and melody. A year or so ago Laderman tried to solve the problem in his Duet for Flute and Dancer by writing the dancer's part into his score as though the dancer were another musical instrument...
...Ralph Lowe plays the lead in suitable all-American-boy style. As Applegate, alias Mephistopheles, Ray Walston is properly sardonic and fast-paced. Devra Korwin, who handles the part of the standard siren played by Gwen Verdon on Broadway, is the major sex interest of the show. As a dancer, she is expert, but as a singer she is better to look at than to listen...
Benares-born Ravi Shankar, a younger brother of famed Dancer Uday Shankar (TIME, Nov. 22, 1948), started mastering his difficult art when he was 18. He has written movie scores and ballets (including one based on Nehru's Discovery of India), is working to modernize Indian musical techniques, i.e., standardize instruments and notation. But he despairs of ever accomplishing true mastery of the sitar. "It is like driving through a mist," he says. "The more you drive, the more you realize the road is still there...
With a reputation already made in Israel, Kovarsky with his wife, a former Martha Graham dancer, decided to go to New York six years ago. Says Kovarsky: "We had been cut off from the art world for ten years. I felt the need of something refreshing. New York cooks very fast, and it cooks nicely. It has a good smell. What was yesterday is gone. Yesterday's car isn't enough. Today demands more. I will take a lot from here...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Bottle Imp, with Farley Granger, and Geoffrey Holder, a calypso singer and dancer, in a bizarre tale of voodoo...