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...first goal is better classical dancing, Baryshnikov's second is better mime and "character dances." These usually appear in full-length works like Petipa's Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Though they are often polonaises or czardas, they are not folk dances but theatrical steps that must be performed with panache. It is a European style that Americans must learn. Explains Baryshnikov: "Classical dancing means moving through the rules and trying to extend them a little. In character dancing you don't stop until someone says, 'That's bad taste.' It's show...
Even apart from such oddities, there is an unprecedented confusion of choices in standard full-length Bibles. Never have so many major new translations been on the market. An era of intense activity will be completed next year with the projected release of the Jewish Publication Society's Holy Scriptures (the Christian's Old Testament). Roman Catholics for the first time have excellent English translations from the original Greek and Hebrew languages: the official New American Bible (1970) and Britain's Jerusalem Bible...
Some 4,000 scripts descended on the Actors Theater of Louisville this year. For the fifth annual festival of new American plays, Producing Director Jon Jory and his staff winnowed out the plays to five one-acters, five full-length works and a collection of short pieces. As a profile of the U.S. psyche, three main characteristics emerge: a mercurial violence simmering just beneath the surface of everyday life, bizarre, zany, irrepressible humor, and wistful reverie about the past or the future. Americans like to dream out loud. Herewith, a sampler...
...dressed in a full-length gorilla suit and carried a model of Reagan's head on a silver platter...
...looks, Nevelson's style may be described as collage driven relentlesrelentlessly to excess, a cross between Catherine the Great and a bag lady: pailady: paisley scarves, blue work shirt, full-length chinchilla, OrientaOriental brocade, embroidered waistband, flounces, a rattling boar-tusk necklace and a black riding cap. (When Nevelson was picked as one of the twelve Best-Dressed Women by Publicist Eleanor Lambert in 1977, few of her acquaintances were surprised: there was, as one friend remarked, nowhere else to put her and no known way to ignore her.) "Personally, I'm dramatic, it seems," she told...