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...SICK LITTLE girl in a woman's body, Empress Phylissa doesn't know her powers. Drooling, a finger hooked over her lower lip, the beauty never guesses that her bedroom's an asylum. She makes you wrench, as do all the characters in The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre's The Menagerie of Empress Phylissa performed last week at the Loeb...
...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
EUROPEAN DANCE, however experimental (and The Polish Mime Ballet certainly is), tends to remain rooted in the art of theater. American dance, on the other hand, is often highly conceptual and not at all dramatic, a fact demonstrated by The Oberlin Dance Collective last week at the Radcliffe...
...Polish Mime Ballet. A celebrated European company performs the comic mime The Menagerie of the Empress Phylissa, which combines ballet, mime theatre and gymnastics. One of the Loeb's special season presentations. Performances January 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. January 17 at 5 and 9 p.m., January 18 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Rush seats...
...neverending party," Traub has played host to some genuine after-or before-hours parties. This month alone he has presided over a wine-tasting held to mark publication of a book, The Joys of Wine, which Bloomingdale's will sell for $45, and a breakfast at which a mime helped celebrate the store's introduction of French-made watches...