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...someone had been sent to resurrect Martha Graham, great founding mother of modern dance who retired from stage last year, it could not have been a more convincing messiah than Paul Sanasardo, who danced with his troupe Friday and Saturday night at the Loeb. Sanasardo, dancer-choreographer, led his group through locomotive choruses--incarnations of strength and of the Graham tradition...
...curtain opens on six squiggled screens all in a row, that begin to sway alternately back and forth, by some mysterious support just barely maintaining their balance. Magically the fantasy fence stands erect and splits apart like sliding doors unearthing a dancer in the expected void. Like a movie where superimposition pops a new figure in view out of nothingness, the stage gradually becomes blocked in with one, two, and sometimes six dancers. Even with their skill of wheel-like locomotion, Russia's Moisey dancers could not have oiled these with any more slipperiness or spontaneity...
...type. She's wonderful as a kind of Tillie the Toiler suddenly gone hot on sex. She's got a voice with which you wouldn't care to argue and a way with inflections that almost makes words unnecessary. Fresh out of Company. Donna McKechnie is Ivy, a kootch dancer whose one claim to fame is being named Miss Turnstyles. She does everything Field's choreography asks of her decently enough, and since that never seems to permit her to be half as exciting as she can be I think she should ask for more. Rounding out the trio...
Died. Harald Lander, 66, Scandinavian ballet master and choreographer who helped mold the Royal Danish Ballet into one of the world's greatest troupes; of leukemia; in Copenhagen. During his 19 years as ballet master, the former dancer choreographed such highly praised productions as La Valse, Spring, and his modern masterwork, Etudes. In 1951 scandal ended the Danish phase of his career; he was accused of taking liberties with ballerinas and forced to resign. Instead of retiring, he went to France and was soon appointed ballet master at the Paris Opera...
...were those sired by Buckpasser, the 1966 horse of the year, who won 25 races and $1,462,014. The first big surprise of the auction came after only eleven horses had been sold, when a New Jersey computer magnate and racing novice paid $125,000 for a Native Dancer grandson. Having given his trainer authority to buy the horse, Joseph Taub was eating a leisurely dinner at the time the trainer spent his money. He returned from his meal to borrow a flashlight and inspect his new acquisition in a darkened stall. The highlight came Thursday, when a three...