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...high-school teenagers brought to the gallery, the show is an eye-opener. Even two generations removed, the pictures strike very close to home. "I was frightened to see that poor dead lady lying in the street," said a 35-year-old Berlin lady. "That's Hallesches Ufer in Kreutzberg - I pass there every...
...they could buy their dancing lessons cheaper. They descended on a pint-sized teen-ager backstage in a Dresden theater who had hopes of becoming a stage designer. How would he like to study under Dancer Mary Wigman, the new rage of Europe? He was willing: Before long, Harald Kreutzberg was the prize...
Last week, Manhattan's dancers and dance fans-from nightclub whirlers to classic ballerinas-turned out to see the shiny-pated, lithe little fellow whom most of them consider the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky. It had been ten years since Kreutzberg had danced in the U.S., but at 44 he was still as mobile of face, and as agile of step and gifted of satire as ever. He is one of the few dancers alive who, with no company of dancers to surround him, no scenery to set him off, and only a piano to accompany him, could...
...Kreutzberg's first big success-and his last haircut-came in 1925 when he danced a dramatic part in the ballet Don Morte, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Says Kreutzberg: "I wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears...
Jose Limón's girl friend had to drag him to his first modern dance recital. That was 17 years ago. He watched the great German dancer Harald Kreutzberg do his "Angel of Last Judgment," turned to the girl and said: "Charlotte, my God, that's what I want to do!" That kind of dancing, he decided, "looked like something a man could do without being ridiculous." Last week, looking far from ridiculous, Jose Limón and his company danced two of his infrequent recitals before sell-out crowds in New York. Critics now rank...