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...time with tales of unrest and unhappiness at American Ballet Theater, the nation's premier dance company. American members of A.B.T. felt upstaged and upset by the arrival of Soviet Defectors Natalia Makarova (in 1970) and Mikhail Baryshnikov (in 1974). This fall A.B.T. recruited three more foreign superstars: Stuttgart Ballet's Marcia Haydée and two Italian artists, Carla Fracci and Paolo Bortoluzzi. Thus nobody quite believed it last week when, on the eve of the opening of the company's six-week Manhattan season, A.B.T.'s American star Cynthia Gregory abruptly announced her retirement...
John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...
With mixed expectations, then, New Yorkers turned out at the Metropolitan Opera House last week for Balletdirektor Tetley's debut visit with the Stuttgart and his first full-scale work, Daphnis and Chloë. The choice was an odd one. Daphnis and Chloë has not been a lucky ballet. The 1912 Paris première by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival...
...sers in grandiose one-handed lifts, only to plummet a moment later in balletic kamikaze dives. This is not orthodox story ballet. But the choreography is fluent, strong, and from the beginning moves with the propulsion of a Metroliner. Tetley's Daphnis and Chloë should be a Stuttgart staple...
...tighten security, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt banned nonofficial visitors from government headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...