Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dame Margot Fonteyn is indisputably a prima ballerina assoluta. The Stuttgart Ballet now ranks among Europe's best dance companies. Its director and chief choreographer, John Cranko, is possibly the reigning master of story ballet. Put them all together and what do you get? What you get, sad to say, is a campy, overripe, overdecorated disaster called Poème de I'Extase, which was given its American première last week at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...about what they did with prisoners. I got the part because I had memorized an obscene German limerick somewhere in high school, and I recited it as an audition. [Laughter.] And I said it at some point in the movie, and to this day, when that movie plays in Stuttgart, the audience breaks up. [Laughter...
Celebrated Creation. In some ways the men he has assembled are Stuttgart's strongest asset. Richard Cragun, born in Sacramento, Calif., and trained in Canada, Britain and Denmark, has vast reserves of power, grace and masculinity that make him one of the best dramatic male dancers anywhere. Egon Madsen, a youthful Dane with a baby face, skillfully alternates with Cragun in many dramatic roles: when Cragun is Romeo, Madsen is Mercutio and vice versa. Backing them both up in the rotational order is a German dancer, Heinz Clauss, whose black-clad Eugene Onegin seems as subtly menacing...
Cranko's most celebrated creation, however, is a dancer, not a dance. Marcia Haydée, 5 ft. 3 in., in her pre-Stuttgart days-at London's Royal Ballet School and later as a disconsolate member of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet -weighed 138 pounds and was known as "the fat Brazilian." Today, at 100 pounds, she has an angular, spindly body that, in repose, sometimes suggests a Mary Poppins more than a Carmen or a Kate. But in motion she ranks among the world's top ballerinas. She is also, certainly, one of the world...
...peers at encouraging and developing talent, or in lending dancers the confidence to try new things. The company lacks the Royal London Ballet's palatial size and majesty. It cannot match the Bolshoi's disciplined depth and classical perfection. Yet in versatility and crowd-pleasing dramatic power, Stuttgart can be fairly compared to both...