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...Leisure section of the New York Times is usually a frustrating experience for dance lovers away from the city. A lot of troupes appearing in New York never make it to Boston. This weekend, however, the Loeb Drama Center and The Goethe Institute host a young German dance company, Tanz Forum Koln, in its American premier performance--in Cambridge...
Like the Boston runs of many aspiring theater productions, Tanz Forum's U.S. debut presents work that is generally unknown (in this country), and the problem with debuts is that sight unseen they are hard to predict. But Tanz Forum enjoys a reputation which growing internationally. The company has toured Europe, North Africa, Lebanon, Iran, Greece, India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, and now the United States. And the company is only six years...
Formed in 1970 by a few members of the Cologne Opera Ballet, Tanz Forum Koln fuses modern dance forms with the classical ballet tradition. The company's repertoire has included pieces by such wellknown choreographers as Glen Tetley, Jose Limon, Hans van Manen and Kurt Jooss. Works by Gray Veredon and Jochen Ulrich, director-choreographers of Tanz Forum Koln, dominate the performances at the Loeb this weekend, hopefully not at the expense of variety. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. $7.95, $5.95 for student rush. Call...
...Smith, of Berkeley, Calif., and Dunster House (Linguisties): Max well D. Solet, of Arlington, Va., and Eliot House (Government); Nathaniel I. Spiller, of Cambridge and Winthrop House (Government); Thomas A. Stewart, of Glencoe, I?., and Adams House (English): Henry A, Tanz, of Tueson. Ariz., and Quindy House (Physics): Allan B. Taylor, of North Haven, Conn., and Leverett House (Social Studies): Robert T. Teske, of Milwaukee. Wise., and Quincy House (Folklore and Mythology): Warren T. Treadgold, of Seattle. Wash., and Eliot House (History and Literature); B, Ko-Young Tung, of Tokyo. Japan, and Quincy House (Physics): Bruce C. Vladek...
...sinister figure of General Tanz Nazi Germany, at least, finds a brilliant embodiment. Although most of the other characters are sketched in only with enough completeness to establish them as sympathetic or not, Tanz is fully and compellingly detailed. Looking like "a painting by someone who had tried to capture the essence of heroism," he is nevertheless subject to strange tics and seizures, inexplicable quirks of behavior; a steely disciplinarian, indifferent to the value of individual lives, he displays exemplary courage and single-minded patriotism. Clearly Tanz is meant to be a mythic, archetypal figure--Herr Kirst even goes...