Word: duelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves are often slow and arduous, but the great tension and energy between the dancers make the struggle heartbreaking. Robbins...
...Robbins skillfully uses some company youngsters: Peter Boal, looking like an archangel, Damian Woetzel, a particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage by Duell and Luders in the serene, lyrical "swimming" motion from Chaconne -- also set in Elysian fields...
...been billed as Das Duell (The Duel), and it was expected that the West German election campaign pitting Chancellor Helmut Schmidt against Conservative Challenger Franz Josef Strauss would be a stimulating confrontation of intellects and ideologies. Instead, halfway to the Oct. 5 election, it has been a disappointment, practically devoid of serious debate on the issues and degenerating easily into mudslinging and character assassination. The battle seems to be all over but the invective: Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats is a heavy favorite to defeat the Christian Democrats and their sister party, Strauss...