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...Tangent Watchers," the most recent of a series of intimate dances titled "Inscapes," Gray does succeed in reaching beyond her theme. A duet for two women, the pieces begin with Gray pounding her fist into her palm, Susan Dowling catching one wrist with the other hand. Dowling delicately arrests her gestures, Gray percussively snaps hers. Both work within their own style of moving and yet transcend their individuality too, dancing in unison through the second half of the piece. In contrast, Gray starts off another dance in the series, "Looking to See," with unison movement. In this piece a second...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players in a production which surpasses even their own invariably high standards. The show begins slowly, unimpressively, as the groundwork of the plot is carefully laid. But the momentum picks up for good when Elsie (Ellen Burkhardt) and Jack Point (Terry Knickerbocker) team in a lovely duet that tells the sad tale of "the merryman and his maid ("I have a song to sing, O!"); in this evocatively staged number, lyrics, music, choreography and voices blend into a moving statement of the main terms of the drama--the conflict between lord and jester for the fair maiden...
...Stade (Charles Wadsworth, piano and harpsichord; Gervase de Peyer, clarinet: Gerard Schwarz, trumpet; Columbia: $6.98). Two brilliant young American-born singers team up with a superior set of instrumentalists in a glowing recital of vocal music. The mood shifts in a varied repertory that encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...
...choreography of Godspell embodies the enthusiasm of the newly converted; most dance numbers reflect the influence of gospel rhythms, with hand-clapping and swaying bodies, and the exuberant spontaneity of exercise. The best number, however, is the soft shoe duet "All for the Best", which pits Jesus against Judas (David Alpert) for the first time...
Nikolais's choreography becomes more involved at times when he de-emphasizes the light and slide show. (Some of his dances fuse light and movement at their most essential level; others use costume and light traditionally, as secondary arts.) Somniloquy, an all-dance duet, turns Suzanne McDermott and Gerald Otte into fast-moving comic caricatures, Nikolais's way of treating a potentially sexual situation. He has the couple move with such highly-charged energy that they forget their partner is of the opposite sex. At these times Nikolais emphasizes traces of movement rather than the precise shapes of movements...