Dance
Fleming, Bruce
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...Other People's Money is less a work of art than a wonderfully wrapped package full of highcalorie goodies...
...Transferred to the stage, it serves as a frame for a series of ballet take-offs, Peter Anastos's stock in trade from his days at the men's parody ballet troupe popularly known as the "Trocs...
...David Hollenbach, S.J...
...DeVito is...well, you've seen DeVito...
...She is his loophole-hunting, computer-tapping belle dame sans merci...
...It was set to Bernstein's symphony of the same name, itself inspired by W.H...
...in Systematic Theology, History of Christian Life and Thought, or Christian Ethics...
...First, the physical disparity between the erotic duelists...
...But though she doesn't hesitate to drive up the price of the stock he wants to buy and he doesn't scruple to bribe a traitor in her client's ranks, each is fair to the other when it comes to using eros as a weapon...
...The stage effects included a stunning locomotive that surges out of the darkness of the Russian night...
...Corporate settings notwithstanding, Other People's Money portrays courtly love in a twentieth-century permutation...
...Of course, this lyricism of approach to Balanchine is quite comprehensible in the context of director John Hart's avowed predilection for dramatic or story ballets...
...It's both topical and old-fashioned...
...And, in close-ups, she is secure and commanding...
...James A. O'Donohoe John J. Paris, S.J...
...RICHARD ALLEVA DANCE GO WEST, YOUNG DANCER BALLET WEST COMES EAST t's now something ofa clich6 to say that dance in New York has fallen on hard times...
...Mary Daly Robert J. Daly, S.J...
...This sort of thing is more popular in Germany, where the American-born Neumeier heads the Hamburg Ballet, than it is in the U.S...
...Her occasional awkwardness of movement and uncertainty of how to use her hands, lends her a mild gawkiness that nicely contrasts with the cocksure aggression of her role...
...Moreover, it is not inconsistent with Balanchine's Petipan prototypes...
...Even the movement seemed derivative: bad Modern Dance, involving murky relationships between former selves (half-dressed dancers who doubled the barflies) and a strangely erotic "father" figure, all of it involving much writhing about...
...Gorey is known to millions as the illustrator whose delightfully droopy Victorian maidens and detectives are seen with the credits for the PBS "Mystery" series...
...The more important if less elegant dance to music from Marconi comes at the end of the first act when a vigorous Irish tune pulls first one, then another of the sisters into a mad dance until finally Kate (Rosaleen Linehan) breaks out, joining the others in a moment that is at once a cry of joy and a revolution against the rigidities and the poverty that smother them...
...6 December 1991:717 set to a Tchaikovsky-pastiche score...
...You would guess wrong...
...The production was so successful that it was taken over by the Royal Danish Ballet, the company that has kept Bournonville's heritage alive...
...But, then again, isn't the manufacture of confectionery at least a minor art as well as a business...
...The painful events of that summer, clouded by the long look back, allow Michael/Friel at once to warm and chill the audience...
...The Gilded Bat is chock-a-block with references to dance history...
...Friel would seem to agree...
...Citing skyrocketing rents in Manhattan, diminishing funds from grant sources, and living situations that dancers are increasingly unwilling to put up with, many people conclude that the dance boom of the '70s and '80s is over...
...Second, and even more important: neither of the duelists is deceitful or even tricky in the sexual sparring...
...BRUCE FLEMING Bruce Fleming is an associate professor of English at the United States Naval Academy and was the 1990 Dance Critics Association Fellow...
...Here, however, instead of happygo-lucky sailors from the '40s, we had angst-ridden yuppies from the '50s (or was it the '90s...
...Dancing at Lughnasa, which comes from Dublin and London trailing clouds of glory, looks as though it is going to be a solid Broadway hit...
...Robert Imbelli Pamela Jackson Philip J. King Matthew L. Lamb Frederick G. Lawrence Claire Lowery H. John McDargh William W. Meissner, S.J., M.D...
...The program closed with the spirited romp of Peter Anastos's The Gilded Bat, with sets and costumes by Edward Gorey...
...He is her pinstriped, limousine-transported knight...
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...Even Marius Petipa's (1822-1910) most abstract sequences appeared in the context of dramatic ballets, and were danced by men and women in character...
...In fact, the opening night program seemed designed to astonish everyone with the breadth of this company's capabilities...
...Penelope Ann Miller is still a novice actor (though an exceedingly promising one), but hers is a good role for a novice to play...
...Ballet West burst on the national scene in the 1980s, with the production by then-director Bruce Marks ofAbdallah, a"lost" ballet of the great nineteenth-century Danish master, Auguste Bournonville (1805-79...
...But the week-long appearance by Salt Lake City's Ballet West at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., (October 8-13) made clear that dance in unlikely places like Utah is doing just fine, and that when it tours back East it can hold its own with the local products...
...It was founded in 1951 by William Christensen and Utah arts' patroness Glenn / 716: Commonweal Walker Wallace...
...And it works mainly because of two shrewd strategies employed by director Norman Jewison and scriptwriter Alvin Sargent (adapting Jerry Sterner's play) and executed con brio by DeVito and Miller...
...In fact, they emphasize it in as many ways as they can with extreme close-ups of the two kissing, with camera angles that emphasize the way the woman towers over the man and, most of all, in sheer emphasis through the acting, on how much DeVito lusts for Miller and how aware Miller is of the power she has over DeVito because of his short ugly man's yearning for a woman who, under normal circumstances, wouldn't even notice him, much less respond to him...
...Why didn't the Democrats run Peck against Ronald Reagan...
...References to other ballets were also close at hand in the evening's headliner ballet, Neumeier's Age of Anxiety...
...Kate, the / oldest sister, a school teacher who tries to hold the family together (religious and social propriety is her glue), loses her job because brother Jack, a priest, has been invalided home after years at a leper colony in Uganda, not for his health's sake but because he has gone native...
...Fitfully compelling, the piece consisted largely of a series of lengthy pas de deux for Anna and her adulterous lover, Vronksy...
...This starkly contrasts with their financial-legal maneuvering that is certainly high-handed and in which neither gives quarter to the other...
...DOCTORAL STUDIES in the Joint Graduate Program with Andover Newton Theological School lead to the Ph.D...
...Danny DeVito's entire previous career has been a preparation for this role and he seizes his moment like Richard III seizing the crown...
...Aggie (Brid Brennan) and Gerry (Robert Gwilym) do a marvelous dance to "Anything Goes," and he and Chris (Catherine Byrne) move romantically through "Dancing in the Dark...
...She denounces him as an agent of capitalistic chaos, schemes to wreck his plans, but doesn't hold herself aloof from him...
...It is Michael's remembered dancing music that does the wanning...
...For all the recent attention, however, Ballet West is not a new company...
...Such is the case with Brian Friel's Dancing atLughnasa, but the music is in this case is not Tom's "fiddle in the wings" but Irish dances and 1930s' popular songs...
...In other words, Other People's Money is a romance, a seriocomic love story merely underpinned by social concerns...
...Stephen F. Brown Lisa Sowle Cahill Francis X. Clooney, S.J...
...John A. Darr Donald J. Dietrich Harvey D. Egan, S.J...
...The narration, provided by Hart himself from an easy chair in best "Masterpiece Theatre" style, ties the vignettes together with bits of Gorey's tale...
...DEGREE may be earned in Theology or Biblical Studies...
...The strength of the production lies with the five actresses (three of whom have been with Lughnasa since the Dublin opening in 1990), who play together so effectively that they not only embody the characters but make them seem--for the moment at least--inseparable...
...The opening was reminiscent of that most famous of Bernstein/Robbins ballets, Fancy Free, with three men and a woman at a bar (the stunning sets and costumes were by Zack Brown...
...The dancing for the entire engagement was solid to good, with the exception of the rocky and imprecise beginning of the opening-night Balanchine...
...None of it would work if the actors didn't deliver, but they do...
...Anthony J. Saldarini Margaret A. Schatkin Francis P. Sullivan, S.J...
...The kitchen is shot through with love and comfort, resentment and rebellion--it is a family...
...Raymond G. Helmick, S.J...
...The Mundy family is about to fall apart in this summer of 1936...
...Application deadline is March 1, 1992...
...It works...
...The M.A...
...Michael, who is to Friel as Tom is to Tennessee Williams, has a lyric speech at the end of the play recalling "a dream music that is both heard and imagined," but he goes Tom one better for "when I remember it, I think of it as dancing...
...She is hunted not by a Russian prince, but by a band of men wearing fuzzy parkas in neon colors and clunking around the stage in snowshoes...
...This movie is slick entertainment of a fairly high order...
...As long as she is willing to battle him, she remains in his view and that is, for the moment, all he wants...
...Neither director nor players try to mitigate this beauty-and-thebeast pairing...
...A choreographic disappointment, this piece never approached the level of Paul Taylor's brilliant Company B, a masterful work about loneliness and longing set to music of the Andrews Sisters which premiered this summer with the Houston Ballet...
...Biblical Studies may be pursued as a minor field...
...Pheme Perkins Stephen J. Pope Louis P. Roy, O.P...
...For whatever abstraction of movement was lost in the Ballet West's interpretation, therefore, the gain was in the sense of immediacy and human involvement it produced...
...Thomas H. Groome Margaret German, R.S.C.J...
...James Rurak Patrick Ryan, S.J...
...Along with his brothers, Lew and Harold, Christensen had established the San Francisco Ballet in 1937, the oldest ballet company in the United States...
...For the engagement's second program, the Salt Lake company offered Andre Prokovsky's modern full-length Anna Karenina, GRAOUArE SrUOlES IN THEOL OG Y AT BOSTON COLLEGE J The Department of Theology at Boston College, a leading Catholic university in an ecumenical setting, shares the resources of eight other schools in the metropolitan area through membership in the Boston Theological Institute...
...Beyond the pleasure of performance, the audience is given the cozening comfort of memory which, as Williams said in his notes to Menagerie, "takes a lot of poetic license...
...Agnes and the slightly retarded Rose learn that a new factory will replace their cottage industry--the making of hand-knitted gloves--eventually triggering their departure from Ballybeg...
...Auden's celebrated poem...
...he still has a good stage artist's command of volume, pause, and inflection...
...And his expert delivery of his final appeal to the stockholders reminded me that Peck first won acclaim as a stage actor...
...He sighs and moans and guffaws when she hoodwinks him...
...This is a real Lughnasa dance, for Lughnasa is a harvest festival with its roots in pre-Christian Ireland which 718: Commonweal...
...Pamela Robinson's Anna was suitably passionate, though Raymond Van Mason's Vronsky seemed more like a sneering, pretty boy than a dashing officer for whom Anna would sacrifice so much...
...The choreography ranged from the delicate, Petipa-inspired classicism of George Balanchine's (1904-83) Divertimento No...
...He's never been a favorite actor of mine because he has always seemed less a human being than a walking, breathing advertisement for Rotary International...
...The ballet is based on his picture book of the same title about a vacuous ballerina who meets a sad end at the height of her fame...
...Assistantships and fellowships are also available for quafified Joint Graduate Program students specializing in Medieval Theology...
...Charles C. Hefting, Jr...
...The Faculty: Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M...
...STAGE THE MUSIC OF MEMORY 'DANCING' & 'BORROWED TIME' 6 n memory everything seems to happen to music," says Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie...
...n the basis of its subject matter--the struggle of an old-line New England manufacturing company to avoid a hostile takeover by a Wall Street raider and the way that struggle is waged financially, legally, and even erotically between the raider (Danny DeVito) and the company's lawyer (Penelope Anne Miller)--you might guess that Other People's Money equals City of Hope in ambition, scope, and social inquiry...
...Ballet West's programs at the Kennedy Center made clear that the company, now under the direction of John Hart, has polished this heritage to a new luster...
...The conception of that piece was too lyrical and dramatized for eyes raised on the New York City Ballet's more athletic style...
...When the lawyer threatens to turn over her case to some colleague unless DeVito grants her a certain legal respite, he feels no resentment in giving way, and she feels no guilt about her manipulation of him...
...But he's got to give filmmaker Sayles a break so that the latter can take a few deep breaths, focus his attention on those problems and characters he really understands, and then create a drama that has depth as well as scope...
...The hapless heroine does dreary Swan Lake spin-offs in the provinces, achieves fame in a kind of cross between Bournonville's La Sylphide and Jerome Robbins's The Cage (she plays a crazed insect that attacks a pair of lovers), and catches the public's interest in a polar version of Fokine's Firebird, entitled L' Oiseau de Glace, The Ice Bird...
...J. Cheryl Exum Ernest L. Fortin, A.A...
...His yielding is an open tribute to her beauty, and her willingness to use his infatuation is her way of acknowledging his admiration...
...Miller is sleek and fine-boned...
...Though some of the legal-financial maneuvering is sharply observed and the final contending appeals to the stockholders by DeVito and Gregory Peck (as the company's scion) make for stirring oratory, the real focus of this movie is on the sexual contest between the beautiful lawyer and the Wall Street hustler...
...Michael's memory catches the Mundy sisters at the moment of disruption, but as the grown man remembers what the boy of seven saw they are still a functioning group...
...Thomas E. Wangler James Michael Weiss For further information on graduate programs and resources, Contact Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Director of Graduate Programs, Box C, Department of Theology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167...
...But he's aged magnificently and seems to have grown into the middle-class grandeur he's always aspired to...
...They burst intermittently from the sometimes working radio (Marconi, as the Mundy sisters call it), the first such instrument to find its way into the Mundy home outside Ballybeg, the County Donegal setting for so many of Friel's plays...
...In the star-billed but essentially supporting role of the manufacturer, Gregory Peck is wonderful...
...That might at first seem surprising since, as so often in Friel's plays, it is about loss and dissolution...
...15 to the European angst of John Neumeier's TheAge of Anxiety, commissioned by the Kennedy Center and presented here as a world premiere...
...Indeed, it may be that the greatest strength of Ballet West is the sense the company conveys of just this involvement: the dancers with the dance, with each other, and finally with the audience...
...Norman Jewison sends every element in the script, good or bad, whizzing by the viewer...
...Gerry, Michael's father, wanders in and out, his feckless Welsh charm creating tensions among the women, particularly between Chris, Michael's mother, and Aggie...
Vol. 118 • December 1991 • No. 21
