Word: renard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Renard, the first and lighter of the two showcases the skills of some talented dancers and displays the work of choreographer Decborah Wolf. Wolf's challenge is to project convincing illusions of a fox a rooster a cat and a goat through the bodies costumed only abstractly of four human dancers...
...minutes Renard encompasses the troupe not only meets the challenge but converts it into a delightful tour de force. The story involves a gullible rooster who is lured twice from his perch by the fox, but escapes and triumphs in the end with the help of his friends the cat and the goat. While the dancers silently cavort, a quartet of soloists in the orchestra pit sing the tale...
...pleasure left by the appetizer. In this piece the soloists are replaced by a chorus flustered around the piano; more interesting Persephone herself speaks as she walks through her part, though the dancing nymphs around her remain silent. Unfolding on the same simple, two tiered black framework as Renard; the scene for Persephone shifts only through the lighting which poignantly points the difference between Heaven and Hell...
...Renard the choreography this time by Richard Dickinson is simple and sure. Its few gestures toward stylization sit a trifle uneasily on Jeanne Jones as Persephone, who looks exactly like a China shepherdess; she also looks a little time like she's watching herself in a minor and her voice errs by a fraction of a timber towards stiffness. But Gide's beautiful words gradually enable her to relax her delivery and precise ensemble work by the nymphs further softens the effects...
...then made his way back to Warsaw, taking pictures of troop movements through the window of his car. Leaving all his equipment behind, Bureau stuffed 30 rolls of film in his snow boots and rode an unheated train in subzero weather to Berlin with L'Express Correspondent Jacques Renard. Said Bureau: "The East Germans searched everything. They looked under seats with flashlights and brought in ladders to go over the overhead compartments. Then they checked us one by one." The Solidarity leaflets Renard was carrying were confiscated, but he and Bureau were not detained. After arriving in East Berlin...