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...whose liberal subsidies underwrite an international company that is one of Germany's most alluring cultural ornaments, have chosen American Choreographer Glen Tetley to plot new directions toward modern dance. Tetley does not take over as full-time director until autumn, but last weekend he premiered his ballet Gemini with his new company. Judging by the opening night ovations, Stuttgart is delighted with its choice...
Tetley is determined to link modern techniques with classical form -hence the title Gemini. The ballet's main fault lies in the intensity with which Tetley states his position. Neither dancers nor audience have time to catch their breath for reflection on the extremities of motion and emotion to which they are constantly pushed. And Tetley is too new to the company to take fullest advantage of the dancers' contrasting personalities-for example, Haydée's Latin passion with Cuoco's sinuous California cool...
...statement of intentions from a self-described "Gemini person," the ballet flows directly from Tetley's twin-track career. Born 48 years ago in Cleveland, he took classical training, then studied modern dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm. In Europe since 1962, he has worked mainly with the Netherlands Dance Theater. There his most publicized work was Mutations, an hour-long essay on aggression that ended with the dancers literally stripped bare...
...taken over again. Rattlesnakes sun themselves on the empty launching pads lining the cape. Small white-tailed deer dart into clearings to feed, and bull alligators bellow in vain for the battalions of space workers who used to feed them marshmallows and jelly doughnuts. On Pad 19, from which Gemini astronauts rose on ten missions to perfect the techniques of rendezvous and docking, the bright orange tower lies useless, flat on its back. The once-gleaming white room where Gemini spacemen had their last look at earth before liftoff now houses wild rabbits...
...single source of air pollution in the world." It will certainly be a greater source of pollution than the infamous Four Corners power plant in New Mexico, whose emissions were the only sign of human activity that astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were able to see from their Gemini XII space capsule...