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PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY. This company's 35th anniversary New York season celebrates the vitality of America's best modern ensemble. In the repertory are two new works, including the full-length Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun. And Taylor's dancers really can fly. Through...
...debuting April 1). From MTV comes cable's second network devoted strictly to laughs. But unlike HBO's Comedy Channel, which features MTV-style clips, this one will offer full-length shows: both new fare and reruns of everything from Sergeant Bilko to Saturday Night Live...
...getting laughs and viewers. Modeled after MTV, the Comedy Channel will have a stable of veejay- like hosts who will provide comedy patter while introducing an array of clips: scenes from comedy movies, snippets of old TV series, excerpts from stand-up performances and other laughtoids. An occasional full-length movie will intervene, but mostly the comedy will come in quick bursts, aimed at a new generation of TV "grazers," viewers who flip around the dial with their remote control. Says HBO chief Michael Fuchs: "We're looking to make a very hot, today channel, and comedy is the place...
From the opening curtain on, exoticism was in the air. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, embarking on a four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever seen. The kind of diversion that appealed to 19th century audiences in Paris or St. Petersburg, Le Corsaire now seems a genuine novelty, and, like the Kirov itself, it signaled that something fresh and curious can still be found in the post- glasnost era of big tours and cultural exchanges...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...