Word: tarantellas
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...brother, is a high-school junior with quite a few issues himself that are aggravated by Ben's reappearance. Ben's hardworking and optimistic father, Pat, seems thoroughly convinced that if everyone could just put aside their cares over a plate of pasta and a rousing rendition of "La Tarantella," things would work out fine. But although these may seem like gross generalizations--the insecure teen, the boisterous Italian--the film succeeds in taming the stereotypes by developing its characters so effectively...
...Presto finale, Kogan again handled the improvisational parts and the entire movement easily and clearly, exciting the audience with a relentless, surging Tarantella. The orchestra, particularly in the expansive violin sections, played almost as well as Kogan. The orchestra as a whole was not quite as precise as Kogan, occasionally sounding muddled, but kept up the light and jovial pace and achieved an impressive, full sound almost throughout the piece, especially in the last movement...
...serenely in air drives audiences to frenzy. A few blocks south, teenagers, housewives and businessmen -many of whom have never seen ballet before-pour through the doors of Broadway's Uris Theater, where Nureyev propels himself through four ballets at each performance of a four-week 34-show tarantella called "Nureyev & Friends." If dance is fast becoming the most popular and most highly creative art in the U.S., New York is already the dance capital of the world...
...uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...Snow Maiden, is a robust, circus-like satire on Old Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns. The other two novelties are internationally flavored departures from Moiseyev's customary exploration of the Russian heritage. Sicilian Tarantella is a festive evocation of Italy's traditional folk dance, while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look like Cossacks in disguise, and his Sicilian peasants might just...