Word: duets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RAWE AND Jennifer Way duet to two Joplin rags and Mozart's twelve variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in "The Rags Suite" (1972). Able to tie knots around the music's rhythm, the two are unable to embrace, botching several attempts, although at the end they do waltz (out of kilter) in their elegant white dress. Tharp connects each dancer's deep-down motor to his outside being, transforming the motor's violent churnings into zips of energy across the body--an odd metaphor for inside jitters...
...Bach Duet" (1974) pairs white-bikinied Rose Marie Wright and Kenneth Rinker. Halfway through JSB's cantata 78, Rinker spits, then, repeating a gesture used earlier as a joke on soft-shoe, grinds that spot on the floor with his toe. That shocked a friend--such an act treated as if just one more jitter/jiggle/jolt...
...Cohen attempt but fail. Monreal creates a highly-charged atmosphere in "Piosenki" which underlies his expressive end, unlike the other three who substitute the ambience of drama for its substance in "Yin and Yang," "Chidori" and "Goat Dance." Danced to throaty cabaret songs composed by Zygmunta Koniecznego, Monreal's duet has less specific associations than the other drama and succeeds in its allusiveness. Laura Young and Woytek Louski sweep through a succession of breath-arresting lifts, revealing the tenderness and trust implicit in "duet...
...actor comes anywhere near matching Minahan's energy, and only Mark Kiely as Jerry, Georgie's father, plays his role in a similarly broad comic vein. Sometimes slightly wooden, Kiely overuses his eyebrows for comic effect, but he teams convincingly with Minahan in numbers like the superbly executed Irish duet "Harrigan...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...