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...laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil. But perhaps the most exciting find of the evening is the directorial debut of Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Subtly and surely, she weaves a mantle of sentiment without sentimentality, and provides off-Broadway's Manhattan Theater Club with a luminous seasonal swan song. -T.E.K...
...Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar of Fire, the stepmother in Fall River Legend, Juno in The Judgment of Paris, the fourth song in Dark Elegies, Queen Clementine in Bluebeard and the regal imperious Mother to such Princes in Swan Lake as Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell...
...tribute was imaginative and moving, and was a fair precis of the achievements of Chase and Smith at A.B.T. The company has kept alive the full-length classics, like Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty. This season it will present Natalia Makarova's staging of the complete La Bayadere, one of Russian Choreographer Marius Petipa's influential creations, a ballet virtually unknown in the U.S. except for the famous last act. Similarly, the works of Fokine (Petrouchka, Les Sylphides, Firebird) are preserved in authentic stagings and style...
...careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler's version of cap and bells. In performance, both bands leap about in transports of benign dementia. The highlight of a Madness show is a ska version of Swan Lake that features a couple of roadies conking their noggins together like a couple of billy goats in a brawl...
...evening, above the ice cream shop, the Sikhs practice the rituals of their predecessors, stretching, contorting, ventilating, and "oaming" to gain the higher consciousness, the ultimate. Below they walk on Mass. Ave. in clean, placidity amidst the chaos. As Siri Guru Granth Sahib says, "As a swan glides upon the water but does not wet its feathers, so a Sikh lives in the world but keeps his mind fixed...