Word: performances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young child in pre-partition Palestine. Despite their poverty, her parents were determined to give her as much culture as possible. Fortunately the neighborhood dance teacher was Gertrud Kraus, once a well known dancer-choreographer in Europe. At the age of 16 she began to study and perform with Rena Gluck of the Graham School. When Anna Sokolow came to Esrael around 1958, Ze'eva performed in her Lyrical TTheater. Sokolow was so impressed by the young performer that she offered Ze'eva a ticket to the United States so she could study on scholarship at the Juillard School...
...what of Freedman's performers? Once we get through an ill-spoken opening scene and the major characters appear, most of the cast perform admirably. Much of what they have to do here is far from easy, and obviously called for a good deal of meticulous drilling...
...that the ship will encounter when it re-enters the atmosphere and glides to a landing at either the Kennedy Space Center or Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A more serious difficulty: ironing the bugs out of the shuttle's main rocket engine, which has failed to perform up to specifications and blew up at least once during ground testing. NASA Administrator Robert Frosch has told Congress that this obstacle should soon be overcome. If so, the shuttle may fly by next July...
...typical victim of the squeeze is Impresario Sarah Caldwell. Her Opera Company of Boston has led a homeless and precarious existence for its 22 years. The Boston Opera House was torn down the year after the company was born, and the troupe has been forced to perform in high school gyms and even to share the Orpheum theater with rock groups. When Caldwell managed to purchase the mortgage on the Savoy theater last fall, she found that her problems were only beginning. A once elegant vaudeville house, the Savoy had been divided into twin movie theaters by a concrete wall...
Students can work with a choreographer in action, see their own teachers perform, and perform themselves, Fangar said, while the teachers can experiment on many eager bodies. The Summer School appreciates the activities generated by the dance program, she added...