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With a less skillful choreographer, or a less disciplined troupe, Bach's music might have inspired little more than energetic exercise or personified precision. Robbins has caught the passion that underlies Bach's formal rhythms, notably in the serpentine, body-entangling duets of Patricia McBride and Helgi Tomasson, which are to the sophisticated eye more erotic than anything in Oh, Calcutta! Small human touches abound: John Clifford, as the leader of a group, suddenly stands motionless in seeming awe as dancers twirl and leap around him; an acrobatic quartet of male dancers cartwheels and somersaults like refugees from...
...HELGI P. BRIEM Consul General New York City...
...Denmark, who is also King of Iceland, has learned enough Icelandic to read his Millennial Day speech in that tongue. Everything seemed ready, last week, for a perfect celebration which thousands of U. S. tourists will attend. Suddenly a terrific squabble and commotion was raised by Dr. Helgi Tomasson, Director of Iceland's only Lunatic Asylum...