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...modern dance, Astarte, the moon goddess, writhes in passionate triumph over the spent form of the mortal who seduced her. The action is bathed in lights and film images that glide, collide and dissolve in a psychedelic pattern to the crash of rock rhythms. This ascendant moment in Robert Joffrey's ballet Astarte appears on the cover of this issue almost exactly as it is seen by audiences. To capture the moment, Photographer Herbert Migdoll photographed the dancers, Trinette Singleton and Maximiliano Zo-mosa, during a performance. Then at another performance, with a telephoto lens, he made the closeup...
...nuts, says Choreographer Robert Joffrey. "I look upon ballet as total theater. I want to attack all the senses. I want my dancers to express my thing, the now thing, good or bad." Performing at Manhattan's City Center last week, the Joffrey Ballet nightly gave eye-dazzling testimony to that credo...
...this is what we feel we're doing," proclaims the film. At the end, passions spent, the man walks through the billowing drop and out a series of backstage doors; Astarte recedes into the shadows, awaiting her next visitor. In his new Astarte, Choreographer-Director Robert Joffrey offers 30 minutes of disturbing, iconoclastic exhilaration. A long way from Swan Lake it may be, but his piece generates its own arresting message as it delves into the psychedelic experience with insight and dazzling originality...
...Joffrey's own troupe, which last week concluded its third and longest (four weeks) season at Manhattan's City Center, is probably the one ballet company in the U.S. that commands the exuberance and inventiveness to bring off this kind of conception. Joffrey, 36, established his American Ballet Center as a dance school in New York in 1953, formed the company out of his best students three years later. After years of barnstorming, the group drifted into the helpful hands of Patroness Rebekah Harkness, but was dropped when she decided to form her own company (TIME, April...
...message of Joffrey's company seems to be that youthful enthusiasm can easily atone for an occasional ensemble roughness. Its repertory is impressively varied, including several company-created works by Joffrey and Gerald Arpino that cover the field from delicate, classic grace (Viva Vivaldi, Pas des Déesses) to revivals of such historic works as Kurt Jooss's famous old antiwar shocker The Green Table...