Dance
McDonagh, Don
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...TIE TEA11 IF TREE PIPES Peter Hebbkthwalte Colliers, $8.95, 220 pp...
...In the programs of excerpts and shorter pieces that were shown, there was a certain scrappiness about the succesion of individual dances...
...Lise Stripp is one of the younger female members of the company but her easy, almost laconic, grace was exceptionally impressive in "Polka Militaire" as well as other ballets...
...All appeared effectively in the programs of short ballets or extracts from longer Bournonville works...
...To maintain the quality and standards that have been preserved indicates a special sympathy and talent for the art unmatched on such a scale, indeed almost on any scale...
...Neither discusses the recent TIE KAKMG IF TIE PIPES 1171: THE POLITICS OF INTRIGUE IN THE VATICAN Andrew M. Greeley Andrews and McMeel, $12.95, 346 pp...
...VI and, to a much lesser extent, their ecclesiologies...
...Along with Linda Hinberg, Annamaria Dybdal and Eva Kloborg, she showed a confident feel for the special restrained Bournonville style, which has always preserved a demure look for the women, even in the most exhuberant and dazzling moments...
...Martins and Luders are principal dancers with the New York City Ballet and Schaufuss is a principal with the National Ballet of Canada...
...Bournonville's own interest in performing saw to that, and to this day the Royal Danish School continues to turn out world-class male dancers more frequently than comparably celebrated ballerinas...
...It is a style that is infused with lightness and has a sunshine quality seeming to signal a permanent celebration...
...Among the soloists seen during the Royal Danish's season, were Niels Kehlet, Peter Martins, Adam Lr ders and Peter Schaufuss, of whom only Kehlet has made his career solely within the Royal Danish company...
...Richard P. McBrien papal elections in terms of the mystery and excitement of the conclaves alone...
...Wisely, he recalls Paul VI's Commonweal: 472...
...In a world where dullness, banality and the predictable are as plentiful as oil seems to be scarce, it is always a pleasure to pick up a book that one can read almost effortlessly from start to finish...
...Peter Hebblethwaite, the new Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and former editor of the English Jesuit periodical The Month, and Andrew Greeley, sociologist at the University of Arizona and priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, have given us such works...
...Hebblethwaite is clearly more favorable to the late pope than is Greeley...
...I shall not dwell here on the obvious discrepancies in vote counts and in their reports of behind-the-scenes maneuvering...
...I leave that to someone else with the time and interest in pointing these out: Cardinal Siri's exact support and on which ballots, the relative strength (or weakness) of the North European bishops and of Cardinal Suenens in particular, the readiness of the second conclave to elect Milan's Cardinal Colombo and his refusal to accept because of age, the true author(s) of Pope John Paul I's inaugural address the morning after his own election, and so forth...
...Both adopt a slightly larger view...
...Today it is supported handsomely by the government, but the royal family still retains a special interest in it...
...Considering the decline and fall of ballet fortunes in France and Italy, the lands which had originally given the form its impetus and grace, the Royal Danish Ballet is remarkably vigorous...
...This means, in effect, that practically everyone is a student from Copenhagen or nearby suburbs...
...The major difference between the two books are their evaluation of Pope Paul...
...Their books are more similar than dissimilar...
...The practice of symphonic writing for ballet music was not generally followed in Bournonville's prime, and so his ballets are essentially collections of individual dances without the broad integrated line that characterizes ballets done to such unified scores...
...The Bournonville dancer skims the surface of the stage and presents an open, welcoming curvature of the arms toward the audience...
...The ballet tradition has flourished and been continuously nurtured in what is one of Europe's smaller nations...
...It began as the private property of the king-part of the ballet master's duties was to teach social dancing to the royal family...
...They take the measure of the pontificate of Paul VI and try to extrapolate from the character and career of Pope John Paul II to the kind of church he will be shepherding, in all likelihood, for much that is left of this century...
...What the programs lost in esthetic quality was more than made up by the opportunity to experience this unique style and this unbroken tradition...
...However, without mounting entire ballets, which would have required a considerably larger company than the fourteen dancers who comprised the soloist group, there was no other choice...
...With its five million population Denmark is about a fiftieth the size of the Soviet Union and produces about as many world-class dancers...
...The fleetfooted character of this style is achieved by an exceptional emphasis on quickness and the staccato succession of several small steps in place of one large one...
...That book remains to be written...
...Both make interesting reading nonetheless, and they can be recommended on that basis alone...
...The school ordinarily has a complement of eighty students in all its sections and even more remarkably does not have any boarding facilities...
...DON McDONAGH Books: CONCLAVES & CAUCUSES N ErrHER of these books is destined to become a standard reference on the modem papacy or even on papal elections...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 15
