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...Dance Company finds a major U.S. dancer and choreographer now watching from the wings (Limón is 64), but still managing to charge a young, vibrant ensemble with his familiar spirit, dignity and eloquence of movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line...
...than others. Equipped with enough stage runways for a good suburban airport, adorned ominously by the obligatory -or so it seems these days-cross of Calvary, Nijinsky is essentially an old-fashioned allegory play dolled up for the stoned age. Its recounting of the life of the great Russian dancer is set to a schizoid musical score (electronics by Pierre Henry, schmalz by Tchaikovsky). To Béjart, Nijinsky is a cast of characters all by himself-artist, simpleton, genius, child of nature and clown of God. Nijinsky also went mad in his last years and thought he was Jesus...
...people who are dying with a disconcerting clarity. And from Cabaret comes the master of ceremonies who dominates and observes the show like a seeing-eye god. Ben Vereen moves through the role of M.C. like a meteor. His near equal is Leland Palmer, a dervish of a dancer, who plays a kind of inflectively Jewish stepmother to Pippin...
...revision in programs. "The kind of family-oriented films we are dedicated to playing are becoming more difficult to find," explains the Music Hall's President Jack Gould. To a generation raised on relatively sophisticated TV variety shows, the dance routines seem simply cornball. Admitted a dancer last week: "Some of the things we have to do are so old-fashioned that we can hear the audience laughing at us." The Bob Hope movie last week was perhaps prophetic. Title: Cancel My Reservation...
...Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony in C (Bizet) caught on at every stop. Balanchine's Who Cares? (Gershwin) was a steady crowd pleaser, though in Tbilisi and Moscow a stomach bug swept the company's ranks, forced last-minute cast changes, and prompted one dancer to dub the work Who's Left...