Word: works
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer thick-thighed youngsters and greying masters of modern dance had been hard at work in their various sylvan woodsheds, chipping and chopping at works both new & old. Last week, some of the chips flew into public view...
...bucolic Jacob's Pillow at Lee, Mass., summer dance fans and Manhattan critics crowded into the big wooden barn-studio to see the first performance of aging (57) Ted Shawn's The Dreams of Jacob, with music by Darius Milhaud. Critics found his new five-movement work both a little flat and a little obvious-Jacob dancing unimaginatively with Rachel, wrestling too literally with the dark angel. The verdict: back to the woodshed...
First, fans saw one of the old masters in an old work: tall, dark-skinned José Limón in Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Last week, they saw him again in a smashing new work by the same choreographer. Unlike her Lament, Choreographer Doris Humphrey's new Invention had no story and no characterization; it was pure dance, but with plenty of invention. By the time Limón & Co. (Betty Jones, Ruth Currier) had gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they...
Angular Wives. To dance enthusiasts, some of the most interesting work of the summer had been that of a newcomer to New London-a big, breezy, Texas girl who had arrived via Broadway instead of Bennington...
...Life of Riley. Moose-jawed Cinemactor William Bendix, who has been Riley for four seasons, has Hollywood movie work to do, will be replaced when the show moves...