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...company is led by the well-known stars Nora Kaye and John Kriza and consists of 14 dancers drawn from the corps of the Ballet Theatre. The program up to last night included Pas de Deesses, Pas de Deux from Coppelia, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Interplay. Selections scheduled for the rest of the week are Designs With Strings, The Combat, Pas de Deux from Swan Lake, and Fancy Free (choreographed by Jerome Robbins and set to music by Leonard Bernstein...
...next number was the traditional Pas de Deux, this time from the third act of Coppelia. Intended to give the prima ballerina and danseur noble a chance to demonstrate their technical virtuosity, it succeeded only in showing that Miss Kaye and Kriza, though excellent dancers are not suited for such restraining numbers...
When Sartre came back from a German prison camp in 1941, they settled down in an unheated Left Bank Paris hotel, made the heated Café de Flore and the Deux Magots their workrooms, talked and wrote and wrote and talked until French existentialism was born. With limited assists from Philosophers Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone...
...Coppelia, as generations of balletgoers know is a mechanical doll who all but wins the heart of a young man. Dolls of several nationalities dance in the dollmaker's workshop, elegantly costumed peasants gambol m the village square, and occasionally the story stops for a joyful pas de deux: in short, a delightful show...
...from Copenhagen, have a distinct style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet...