Word: pas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a long, note-ridden work, he picked out some small pieces and came up with Four Chamber Works, a winner, even though it has a rough start. Musically, Septet is a droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo San Goh that in their lengthy constructs one might discover a really good six-minute ballet...
Taylor, 51, has taken the rich vocabulary of dance, from the spine-straight balletic pas de deux to the earthbound dynamics of Martha Graham, and shaped it into a shifting and special language. He is the J.R.R. Tolkien of his form, and like the fabulist creates works too elaborate to please the avant-garde and too impudent for purists. In short, Taylor remains one of the most accessible of choreographers...
FIRST STAGED in 1970 with the Australian Ballet, Nureyev's production is unexceptional but pleasing. Hardly stylistically daring, it contains the usual number of street scenes with crowd entertainment, pas de deux, dream sequences, and principal solos. The only departure from traditional ballet is the augmented role of the male lead. Nureyev has complained repeatedly that classical roles afford male principals too small a role, and his Don Quixote represents and attempt to make Basilio more than what critic John Lombard calls "a forklift for ballerinas...
...Producer Alexander H. Cohen's 5½-hour benefit for the Actors' Fund. It was a bad dream that will soon go public. The proceedings, staged before a large and increasingly stupefied audience last week, will be shorn of the technical glitches, gaping pauses and personal faux pas that lent the show a kind of desperate piquancy. Edited down for a three-hour ABC time slot, Night of 100 Stars will be sent out over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen...
...first orchestral flourish, the corps strikes a series of sassy poses, which melt away at Maria Calegari's bluesy, ruminative entrance. During an extended first-movement pas de deux, Kistler and Christopher d'Amboise follow the music's every twist and unexpected turn, illustrating its ripples with flowing figurations of their own. The third movement's bold, thrusting opening is similarly reflected in the dance, which includes some rapid-fire footwork for D'Amboise inspired by the rat-a-tat-tat of the piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle...