... Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Dramaturgy at Large: An Interview with Arthur Ballet by Mark Bly Arthur Ballet is professor emeritus in theater, University of Minnesota; the former...

...Laurence Shyer Ballet in New York Poets have sung of Orpheus does it truly attempt an exploration of its Who returned from hell implications and images in a new context...

...Arthur Ballet Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Fifteen Years of Reading New Plays: Reflections on the Closing of the Office for Advanced Drama Research Arthur Ballet In June, 1977, the Office for Advanced Drama...

..., and their standards are roughly the same as those of the opera house, where they are often performed. Now, as to ballet: It is much like opera, but its main focus, instead of being the human voice, is the human body in elegant athletic motion. There is a corpus of classical...

... regularly to study ballet and to supplement this daily routine with addi- tional classes in modern, contact improvisation, and martial arts forms. The rubbery, resilient “hired” body that emerged onstage as the product of that training regimen was equally the product of new forms of patronage...

... these Wellman’s plays are part of a tradition of poetic skills: Before the Revolution was a ballet pastoral theater-one of shifting perceptions, vocabu- set on the grounds of Marie Antoinette’s Petit laries, and structures-that, because it lacks Trianon, in which Antinova played Marie “gut-wrenching...

..., and Softly, and Consider The Ballet = BALLET, Arthur H., ed, Playwrights Nearness. for Tomorrow, 4 vols., University of Minne- ~, Skywriting, in CC. sota Press. (pb) DUBERMAN, Martin. History, in Evergreen Re- Benedikt...

... of pure, inspired whimsy. French the festival‘s highlights were provided by wooden head, is set in a quintessential ex- from his toe shoes right up to his twangy small troupes or by ensembles operating on pression of naive wonder. nasal nonsense utterances, the Ballet a minimal...

... ever directs his attention toward dance, one dogmatic assertion seems destined to flow from his playfully hyperbolic mind: Classical Ballet Was Dealt A Death Blow By The Airplane. (As long as Gutenberg can be held responsible for all the ills of modern man, I...

... 99.9 way productions (including Brigadoon, No Time For Sergeants, Auntie 45 Mame, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) as well as designing for the American Ballet Theater (1950...

... these somewhat realistic creatures are joined by two near-­human-­sized bipedal rams, who do a bit of a baroque ballet meets bat mitzvah line-­dance routine, and two teetering towers of stacked sheep apprehensively gazing about the stage. The grand finale comes when, cued by the music and an exhortative...

... Avignon, as well as international studies at Yale University, where she performances in Brussels, Moscow, and supervises the dance studies program. She Strasbourg among others. has danced with the New York City Ballet joseph roach is Sterling...

... as an intimate work, but it was artificially expanded with ballets and such things to fit the big opera houses. Tchaikovsky was against this but people convinced him that to succeed in a three or four thousand seat house, he had to expand the choral scenes, invent acorpsde...

...- vanishing trace, the Kantor present on stage is the 1-nernsi-yof places ground with his song. The baroque had its own vision of total and of people. And this is precisely what is at once solemn and excep- theater, where ballet provided the spectacle, wheras song carried the The Dead Class...

...Rebekah Ahrendt Title page, Scelta delle più belle ariette, e canzocine italiane, edited by Amédée Le Chevalier (Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1691). Leiden University Libraries, 542 F 16 Rebekah Ahrendt The Muf t i at Home The music of the comédies-­ballets has sounded uneasily across the traditions...

... that were virtually opera-ballets, the story coming mainly as bridges between them. Teamwork and the mentality of one's partnet is bound to influence a theater composer and such mundane collab- orators as Maxwell Anderson and Moss Hart couldn't possibly inspire...

... innamorato step onto the terrace. A flock of red soprano solo offstage bellboys leap around them and perform a sort of women offstage short ballet...

.... Her o cc as i o n for reflection o r int r o s p ec t i o n .” most successful effort combined both these Wellman’s plays are part of a tradition of poetic skills: Before the Revolution was a ballet pastoral theater-one of shifting perceptions, vocabu- set on the grounds of Marie Antoinette’s...

... functions" of such an office. Finally he speculates on the effect the death of Adam Ballet, Arthur. "Fifteen Years of Reading New Plays: Reflections on the Closing Tarn, a Polish dramaturg in exile in Canada, will have on the establishment of of the Office for Advanced Drama Research," Theater, 9...

... (1663, 1663) S ur de La Chapelle, L Illustre philosophe, histoire de sainte Catherine d Alexandrie, tragédie (1663) L Impromptu de Versailles (1663, 1682) Marie-Catherine Desjardins, known as Madame de Villedieu, Nitétis, tragédie (1663, Paris; 1664) Le Mariage forcé, ballet, comédie (1664, 1682) Marie...