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...there is nothing new about his experiment. The Roman Catholic Mass melody, Missa de Angelis, was once a popular folk dance, says Thomas, and the tune of the Protestant standby, Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending* was a great success a century ago when danced as a hornpipe at Sadler's Wells by a certain Miss Catley. He first got the idea himself as a missionary in Zanzibar some 25 years ago. The natives there, he discovered, flocked to his services when he began fitting hymns to their jungle rhythms...
...force, found George Balanchine's New York City Ballet Company "not quite what we're used to," and his dancers "more athletic and less poetic." But, nonetheless, determined to reciprocate the sellout welcome that the U.S. gave Margot Fonteyn and the rest of Britain's Sadler's Wells Company (TIME, Nov. 14), they produced a heart-warming welcoming...
Much of the cheering was for Choreographer Balanchine himself, whose ballets are not often seen in Britain (the Sadler's Wells does only one, his nine-year-old Ballet Imperial). His flowing Serenade (1935), fluidly danced, got a big hand. So did Jerome Robbins' new (1950) Age of Anxiety, danced to Leonard Bernstein's jazzy symphony score. By the time the first-night curtain went down on another Balanchine number, his piston-precise Symphony in C, the audience had been captured. The whole company had to skip on & off stage for 17 curtain calls...
...Since beautiful Prima Ballerina Margot Lander retired in February, the Royal Ballet has sorely missed a female dancer who could rival England's Margot Fonteyn (TIME, Nov. 14). And the company as a whole could not quite match the glittering polish and clockwork precision drilled into the Sadler's Wells troupe. But the Danes proved to be second to none in their male stars...
...Even Sadler's Wells has no one to touch handsome, Danish-born First Solo Dancer Borge Ralov, 42 (who changed his name from Petersen to avoid confusion with another dancer). In an art in which the reverse is usually true, the Danish male dancers are thoroughly masculine. Says Ballet Master-Choreographer Harold Lander: "When I see a boy going that way, I tell him to give it up or give up dancing. Ballet needs feminine women and masculine...