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Reading the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times is usually a frustrating experience for dance lovers away from the city. A lot of troupes appearing in New York never make it to Boston. This weekend, however, the Loeb Drama Center and The Goethe Institute host a young German dance company, Tanz Forum Koln, in its American premier performance--in Cambridge...
...fuses modern dance forms with the classical ballet tradition. The company's repertoire has included pieces by such wellknown choreographers as Glen Tetley, Jose Limon, Hans van Manen and Kurt Jooss. Works by Gray Veredon and Jochen Ulrich, director-choreographers of Tanz Forum Koln, dominate the performances at the Loeb this weekend, hopefully not at the expense of variety. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. $7.95, $5.95 for student rush. Call...
DREAMING UP a name for a musical revue featuring Betty Comden and Adolf Green singing some of the memorable lyrics they've composed, Doug Schwalbe of the Loeb hit on the happy idea of "A Party with Comden and Green." By an amusing coincidence Comden and Green had chosen this description of their performance back in 1959, when they first put together a retrospective of their songs and show tunes for their own staging. The "Party" of 1959 won an Obie award; the "Party" of last weekend was one of the best given in town this year. Comden and Green...
...writers, not performers, but they are almost as talented on the boards as on paper. Dramatics were perfectly designed, blocking and business minimal but maximally suggestive. Their voices, Comden's coloratura in particular, were the biggest surprise of all. Any entertainer able to transform the cavernous spaces of the Loeb mainstage into an intimate club has quite a noisemaker...
...Loeb has rarely seemed so comfortable as this past weekend. If "Party" was bicentennially in honor of the American musical, it will do honor to its hosts as long as people hum "New York, New York...