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...days of Swan Lake and Giselle are gone forever," says Brian Macdonald, the director of the Harkness Ballet. "Today's choreographer can choose any subject he likes." In ballet, the fairy-tale prince of yore is now more likely to be an uptight hippie blowing his mind on pot. Suicide, alienation, bigotry are all possible subjects for dance-as are cerebral abstractions or psychedelic nightmares. As for sex, the prettily stylized love gestures of romantic ballet have given way to body-blending duets that look like lovers' lanes in living color...
...City Ballet is the peerless pro. Ranking not too far behind is the American Ballet Theater, founded (in 1940) and largely financed by Lucia Chase. Emerging strongly now from a gloomy decade of indecision and decline, Ballet Theater has the most balanced repertory in the country; its full-length Swan Lake ranks with the world's best...
...fair that only one human being in the world should have a voice like that. But as long as there's only one, it's folly to waste her on such enterprises as the Opera Company of Boston's Carmen, through which she glided like a swan in a cesspool...
Once home, Charlie finds his wife itchy and bitchy, his little boy unteachable and unreachable. Miserably, he wanders into a mythically peaceful and green meadow near by. There, a huge red-and-yellow ascension balloon sits waiting, like the swan boat in Lohengrin. He clambers aboard and cuts the ropes, borne free to oblivion...
...seemed more the creation of scientists gone mad than a craft entrusted with Project Apollo's most crucial task: to land astronauts on the moon and lift them off again. But in a seven-hour test flight, LM last week performed like a full-fledged space swan...