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...influence on Martins' choreography. Mr. B. takes his cue from the music, not stories, and so does Martins. The Russian folk tale that Stravinsky strung his music around has all but vanished in this production. Those who want to can find hints of a soldier and the devil playing tricks on each other, but Martins' eye is squarely on dance as Balanchine sees it: speed, color, pattern, technical brilliance. The 22 dancers who appear in L'Histoire are costumed as visual metaphors of sound, not as characters in a script. The men, in unitards, belts and boots...
...core of this musical is song and dance. The tuneful seductiveness of the score, especially Thinking of You, Any Little Thing, Up in the Clouds, is not to be found in Evita, Barnum or 42nd Street. Choreographer Dan Siretta sculptures stage space with stylized forms, and his Dancing the Devil Away is a New York prairie fire kindled with tap shoes. The show is not for worrywarts who want to cure the world's ills with a $25 donation...
Given a final chance to speak, Jiang Qing sarcastically noted, "You are pushing the blame on me as though I were some kind of devil with three heads and six arms who can do anything she wants." Then, just before the courtroom drama concluded with her forcible eviction, she once again declared her willingness to die for her cause. "I only wish," she said, "that I had several heads for you to chop...
Such is Orville Schell's rediscovery of Peking man, a post-Cultural Revolution pastiche of shifting policies and that old foreign devil, instant gratification. The author has been observing China ever since he was graduated from the Harvard-Yenching Institute in the late '50s. He made his first trip to the mainland in 1975 and knew pretty much what to expect. The rift in Sino-Soviet relations and memories of America's recent war in Southeast Asia had deepened China's traditional sense of isolation and natural mistrust of outsiders. Although he gorged on statistics...
...gluttonous, shrewd and tough, Believing that evil is an outside job, not part of mankind's nature, he has no compunctions about literally beating the Devil out of people. He bashes a madman with a crucifix, throws "holy" ammonia water in the eyes of an attacker, and makes Hitler abhorrent to a Nazi official through a crude but effective method of behavior modification known as the third degree...