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...with The Nijinsky Mystique, a season-opening triple bill of ballets by Vaslav Nijinsky, the most renowned dancer of the 20th century. The performances will include his once scandalous, now classic Afternoon of a Faun and controversial reconstructions of his long-lost choreography for The Rite of Spring and Jeux--exactly the sort of imaginative programming that put the Joffrey on the map back in its glory days. Four more programs will be seen in Chicago later this season, among them a revival in April of founder Robert Joffrey's psychedelic Astarte, which made the cover of TIME back...
When they got back to Brian's room, Brian found a chocolate heart taped to his door with an attached note saying, "Que les jeux commence!" It was the first clue to a scavenger hunt that took Brian all over his room. "Each note I found contained a clue, a chocolate heart, and one thing written on it that Jeanne loves about me," Brian fondly remembers. The notes expressed everything that Jeanne loved about Brian: his kiss, his enthusiasm, his taste in women and his purple sweater...
Fittingly, Boulez's tour will end in New York, where he will be reunited with his old orchestra. That program is vintage Boulez: Stravinsky, Debussy (the obscure, elusive Jeux), and a work of his own, Improvisations sur Mallarme, I, II, and III. The conductor's six seasons in Manhattan were not, on the whole, happy ones. "My life would have been simplified by a more positive response," he observes dryly. But he is likely to find a more receptive climate for his ideas now. Today's audience has been exposed to a range of idioms from serialism to minimalism. Boulez...
...classics like La Sylphide and Napoli well polished, he has introduced the "modern feet" of Paul Taylor and Murray Louis. Trying to inject more reality in Danish ballet, he decided on a more sexual, dynamic, aggressive approach. One result was Triumph of Death, inspired by Ionesco's play Jeux de Massacre. When word leaked that it called for nudity, many feared for the Danes' long heritage of restrained artistry. Never before had a major classical ballet incorporated total nudity in dance...
...attempt to rival it in jeux d'esprit, or in cunningness of speculation, or otherwise poach upon its preserves. We shall be content with the humbler task of satisfying the curiosity of our readers about what is going on in Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions...