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Handsome, medium height, slender, Brooks Brothers glen plaid suit, blue shirt with a button-down collar, wing-tip shoes, a slight...
...into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate on pure movement. He had never created an evening...
STUTTGART BALLET. This is the group's first U.S. appearance since the death of principal Architect-Director John Cranko in 1973. American Choreographer Glen Tetley, a former A.B.T. and Martha Graham dancer, was the company's unanimous choice to succeed Cranko. But whereas Cranko's story ballets and acrobatic choreography strengthened the theatrical aspect of Stuttgart, Tetley's blend of classical and modern dance vocabulary may add more plasticity of movement. His Voluntaries and his new Daphnis and Chloé will be given U.S. premieres during May-July visits to New York's Metropolitan Opera...
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FORTUNATELY, almost miraculously, a documentary filmmaker named Glen Pearey followed the 1973 UFW grape strike in the valleys of California and has produced a moving, intelligent hour-long film called Fighting for Our Lives. Pearey, working usually with only one assistant to handle the sound, followed the UFW for five months--April to September, 1973--through the valleys, along the highways, and into the fields, showing the workers expelled from the fields, whispering about fighting back and finally organizing to get back the contracts. The organizing is crucial: not only is it the source for much of the film...