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...quite a show anywhere, but in Harlem ... well, it was show enough to make limousines full of people who rare? SSS(TM) K to Harlem pay as much as $100 each for the privilege. Of course every C note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped and floated through tribal rituals and Balanchine abstractions Said Actor Brock Peters, board chairman of the four-year-old dance company: "This community still has a cultural life...
That being the case, then, you'll have to admit that the G and S Players make the best of a good thing. Although their styles of comic acting are wildly erratic. when any-and. eventually, all-of the company fall into the dozens of wonderfully silly danc? steps that are sprinkled amid the song, there is little one can do but surrender to the general frivolity of the occasion...
...prospect of prosperity came in 1962, when Standard Oil Heiress Rebekah Harkness, a longtime ballet buff, invited the company to her 49-room ocean-front mansion in Watch Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey...
...have always had the cream," boasts New York City Ballet's George Balanchine, "but now with more danc ers going through the sieve, the cream is richer than ever before. Our company is packed with great dancers. Any one of them would be a prima ballerina with any other company...
...walk'd with her, I danc'd, I rode...
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