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LIBRETTOS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple...
Great idea, middling execution. The group is composed entirely of aspiring artistes: a writer, a rap singer, a dancer, a model and so forth (not a 9-to-5 drudge in the house). The half-hour episodes are assembled with quick-cutting flash by producers Mary Ellis Bunim and Jon Murray. Few scenes last longer than a minute, the sound track vibrates with rock music, and the camera is always moving or tilted rakishly. MTV has apparently outlawed the 90 degrees angle...
...AMERICAN BALLET THEATER'S PROduction (Romeo and Juliet) was lovely, the music (Prokofiev) splendid, and the principal dancers (Laurent Hilaire and Sylvie Guillem) enchanting. But the roiling applause at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House went mainly to the man who was making his U.S. debut in the orchestra pit, RUDOLF NUREYEV. Now 54, the century's most celebrated male dancer has got a leg up on a new career as a conductor. Admirers who feared that he could not achieve so radical a transition without embarrassment may rest easy. Nureyev, who started conducting both ballet and stage performances with considerable...
...BOTTOM LINE: Dancer-singer-actor Gregory Hines redeems a muddled attempt to liberate the black musical...
...Tonya Pinkins is sultry, sharp-tongued and sweet-voiced as Morton's love interest. Savion Glover, 18, outdoes his own brilliant best in tap-dancing the role of the young Jelly. And as the mature Jelly, Gregory Hines vibrates with the kind of glorious triple-threat talent -- as singer, dancer and actor -- that Broadway used to revel in but hardly ever witnesses anymore...