Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some officers think that the situation is improving, and that pride in the military is growing again, among enlisted men as well as officers. Brigadier General Charles C. Rogers, commander of the VII Corps Artillery in Stuttgart, finds that "soldiers are beginning to wear their uniforms off duty again. Only a few do it, but that's a step forward." Moreover, he detects "an improvement in morale, military courtesy and readiness to accept traditions. Soldiers still ask 'Why?' and need explanations, but they offer much less resistance...
Died. John Cranko, 45, reigning master of full-length story ballet; apparently of a heart attack; while flying from Philadelphia to Stuttgart. Born in South Africa, Cranko came to London at the age of 19; by the time he was 24 he had become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became...
...particular strength of Cranko's inventive -sometimes too inventive-choreography: his gift for narration and characterization. He may, in fact, be ballet's finest storyteller. Two other Cranko works, which had their U.S. premières last week-and which will be repeated later during the Stuttgart Company's six-week American tour-displayed, in varying degrees, his flair for abstract dance...
...that turns out to be a rather mechanical stu dio exercise in balletic geometry. Soloists on stage cavort to solo instrumental moments from three Vivaldi concert! while the ensemble blends with orchestral passages. Plotless but pretty, the work does show off the almost Bolshoi-like muscularity of the Stuttgart's unusually strong male corps and the gamine pertness of lithe Birgit Keil...
Initials R.B.M.E. is unfairly titled and pompously annotated, but a joy to watch for all that. The initials stand for the first names of the Stuttgart's four leading principals - Richard Cragun, Birgit Keil, Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen. In all justice, the title should include an H., for Heinz Clauss, who brilliantly partners Haydée in a soaringly romantic pas de deux...