Word: hanya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikolais, a mild-mannered ex-pianist, studied dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm before forming his own company in 1956. Now 54, he no longer dances, but concentrates on developing a theater of the "total happening," in which "man is taken out of this world and put into the universe." From that vista, the view is sometimes self-conscious and distorted, but the message comes through. Says Nikolais: "We've got to make our peace today with a lot more things than our fellow...
Dinner with the President (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). J.F.K. is guest of honor at a B'nai B'rith dinner, with entertainment by folk singers and a folk ballet by Broadway Choreographer Hanya Holm...
...pleasant things include some stylishly medieval Hanya Holm processions and dances, a gleaming Great Hall investiture of knights, some scattered Lerner lyrics and Loewe songs. But Camelot falls short of sophisticated glitter and shorter of romantic glow...
...virtues of this show well outweigh its faults. The costumes, designed by Tony Duquette and Adrian, and Oliver Smith's sets combine with lighting by Feder and choreography by Hanya Holm to produce several extremely effective scenes. In a way, it's a case of something being so far Out that it's In: often, one is repelled by large amounts of money spent on garish costuming and lavish sets, but producers Lerner, Loewe, and Moss Hart have obviously spent so much money, and spent it so well, that the result is a pleasure...
...coincidence, there is a My Fair Ladylike tone to Camelot's credits. Not only did Lerner and Loewe create the play, but Fair Lady's Director Moss Hart signed on again, along with Julie Andrews as Guinevere, Choreographer Hanya Holm, Set Designer Oliver Smith, Conductor Franz Allers. Beyond that, Lerner's libretto is drawn from one of the best novels of the loth and 20th centuries, T. H. White's The Once and Future King. And Arthur himself is arriving in the shape and voice of Wales's and the Old Vic's Richard Burton, who at 34 is numbered...