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...moment of intensive, moving theatricality-the visual and emotional high point of John Cranko's Traces, which was given its American première last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House by the magnificent Stuttgart Ballet. Traces is the portrayal of a woman who has escaped from totalitarian horrors but has yet to come to terms with those past agonies. Her present is visualized by some amiable bourgeois friends and a courtly but uncomprehending lover (Heinz Clauss...
...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...
...delegation, composed of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish antiwar clergymen, hopes to climax its visit in Rome with an audience with Pope Paul. It will also travel to the Hague, Bonn and Stuttgart to discuss the war and the religious community's response...
Culture also costs more, as do fun and games. Top tickets for the Stuttgart Ballet have risen from $8 to $9, and for one Wagner Festival performance in Bayreuth they have climbed from $28.60 to $31.75. Spanish bullfights are up roughly 8%, to $14 for the choice, shady seats...