Word: ellida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ELLIDA KIRK Tacoma, Wash...
...play poses an odd biological question: "Why should we belong to the dry land? Why not to the sea?" The question occurs most frequently to a Norwegian lady named Ellida, who is haunted by an uneasy feeling that she is land locked. Her liberation comes in the form of a deep-sea sailor, who offers her the chance to slide down the ways and out to where "the seals lie upon the reefs and bask in the midday sun." Ellida sports it for a time with the sailor, but at play's end she chooses a terrestrial admirer...
While Ibsen required five acts to get his point across, Cullberg managed it in a few taut, well-constructed scenes. The curtain rose on a pony-tailed Ellida (Lupe Serrano), her back to the audience, her gaze fixed yearningly on a sea-green curtain. Presently the sailor (Royes Fernandez) appeared and, in a sequence of broad, sweeping movements, lured Ellida into a seductive dance that had the two of them writhing like a couple of fighting fish. The ballet's high point: a dream sequence in which the corps de ballet, got up to look like ocean creatures, came...