Word: succubi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dancers, still dressed as demons and succubi did ten minutes of freestyle Thirties choreography. One audience member called it "Busby Berkley in Hell." Then just as suddenly, they went back to the Russian dancing. After they finished, most of the audience gave them a standing ovation...
...satirize American rock 'n' rollers. That work's time has passed, but the impulse that inspired it remains. In Bald Mountain, Mussorgsky's music is suddenly interrupted by a prolonged cadenza of what can only be called socialist jazz jungle drumming. Pairs of pig-snouted satyrs and lissome succubi writhe lustily as syncopated kettledrums accompany an orgy of things that go bump and grind in the night. The outburst is as unexpected as it is finally gratuitous. But after an evening of demure wholesomeness, it makes a welcome, rowdy change...