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...Sleeping Beauty confirmed her status as the world's most renowned ballerina. Last week at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, audiences were once again clapping for Margot Fonteyn in Sleeping Beauty. This time, however, Dame Margot, 66, had joined the cast of the 19th century ballet in the nondancing mime role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there...
Opus: Odyssey Mime Theatre, Dinosaur Sapce, 10 West St., Thurs. through Sat. at 8, through...
...that one could get high off banana peels with the same sense of irony he brings to his accounts of the radical philosophy of the Diggers, the messianic communalists who sought an end to the money economy. That the humorless Diggers grew out of the still extant San Francisco Mime Troupe, a drama group performing children's puppet shows as well as social commentary sketches, exemplifies the un-predictable directions in which the Haight movement would lead. Less so, though, than the realization that the abomination now calling itself the "Starship" was once the Jefferson Airplane...
...events of the era revolved around dances and concerts. The Airplane and the Grateful Dead are the best known bands to emerge from the era, but even more important to pop music was Bill Graham. Now perhaps America's most successful rock promoter, Graham got his start as the Mime Troupe's business manager and went on to be the pivotal booker of San Francisco's clubs and music halls...
Steeltown: political comedy, performed by San Francisco Mime Troupe, English High School Theatre, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, near Harvard Medical Area...