Word: soho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starched Tutus. Dance's new girl, it seems, is a guy-Antony Bassae. Along with the nine other "ballerinos" of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Bassae performs in satin toe shoes and starched tutus. The Trock less than two years ago started in Manhattan Soho lofts and neighborhood shoebox theaters. This week it makes a leap into respectability with a four-night stand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In addition to aiming choreographic broadsides at such sacred swans as George Balanchine ("Go for Barocco") and Martha Graham ("Phaedra/Monotonous"), the Trock delivers a few pointed comments on Tchaikovsky...
...meant to be a vehicle for his wife, Actress Susannah York, but Writer Michael Wells' newest play looks more like a ride she should have avoided. The Great Ban, which opened in London's Soho district last week, stars York as a former actress who lapses into confused reveries, childhood recollections, and a brief impression of Marilyn Monroe...
...fringe theater," blasted Time Out magazine. Said the Financial Times critic: "I was alarmed to read in the programme that the play is one part of a trilogy." York, now appearing in U.S. movie theaters as the star of Conduct Unbecoming, plans to complete her four-week run in Soho despite the bad notices. Even if audiences think the vehicle sputters, obviously the body work looks just fine...
...have got back to the point where we can look at a massive heavy shape without thinking it backward and funky, or parroting the once obligatory cliches about Stonehenge. An exhibition very much to the point opened this month at the Sculpture Now Gallery in Manhattan's Soho: some 30 tons of granite and steel by James Buchman, 26, a Memphis-born sculptor who lives on a farm in Vermont. It is the most promising first one-man show in Manhattan this season...
Kenneth Lennon was on the run when he wandered into Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London's Soho district one night earlier this month. He also was drunk. George Melly, a blues singer and former film critic for the Sunday Observer, had never seen him before, but Lennon insisted on buying Melly a brandy. "He seemed pretty frightened," Melly recalls, "but the fear was covered with drink, and drink had given him a certain courage...