Word: dybbuk
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...equally ambitious, far more controversial ballet with a supernatural theme was stirring up critics in Europe last week. The work: Dybbuk, by Choreographer Herbert Ross. Staged by Ballets of Two Worlds, the company recently formed by Ross and his wife, Ballerina Nora Kaye, Dybbuk proved to be a three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayefsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayevsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...
...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young Jewish girl possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) succeeds as a genuine theater piece...
...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young girl believed possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) fails to save fantasy from sentimentality but succeeds as a genuine theater piece...