Word: karnilova
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sequence has Louise (Dancer Patricia Birsh) weaving about George (Thomas Hasson) in a brash, hip-flicking dance of courtship culminating in a clinch and Louise's exit in Georges arms. "Nobody saw us," he says as he returns breathless to the stage. In the second incident, Alice (Maria Karnilova) rips off her nightgown, thrusts and twists about the stage in a wonderful pantomime of alternate abandon and frustration, finally offers herself to a stranger. "I don't care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected. The third incident...
...unique and imaginative, as audiences have come to expect from Jo Miclziner. He has produced a fun house, Ferris wheel, and the illusion of a rollercoaster--always in subdued colors which suggest Coney Island but are easy to watch. The dances, except when they are sparked by Maria Karnilova, seem included more as a bow to tradition than because they are fresh and worth performing...
...brilliance and grace of her dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering about sin on the American stage...