... Ballet Espanol 1 COULD HAVE done with a bowl of paella at the Arts, lunchtime on June 22. for there were longueurs in Tani Morcna's Ballet Espanol pro gramme which needed filling with something sustaining and what better than food? These duller moments were during the Flamenco songs for. like the admirable guitar solos, there were too many to make a well-balanced programme. In any case, the ...

... X6 and Xtras ACTION SPACE AS IS customary at Action Space, a recent programme given by X6 and Xtras was termed Extraordinary Evening. It began with Sergeant Early's Dream written and performed by Fergus Early. Some dream this! Starting with a mournful ditty on violin and recorder (played with Caroline John and Rix Pyke) the tune eventually blossomed into a jig. at which point Mr Early ...

... Krystyna Nowak ACTION SPACE EVER since I spent a week in Bali. Balinese dancing has held a special charm for me. and it was a great pleasure to watch Krystyna Nowak at Action Space and discover an English girl with a profound knowl edge and understanding of this in tricate, primitive dance. She demon strated her skills through a lecture with slides of the island's mag nificent scenery and ...

... The Policeman's Serenade NUCLEUS OPERA FIRST performed in Nigel Playfair's 1926 Lyric, Hammersmith season, a short opera with music by Alfred Reynolds and libretto by A. P. Herbert has popped up again in much the same locality though for a very different audience. The enterprising Nucleus Opera, pursuing a declared goal which might be nutshelled as opera-in-education, have revived The ...

... Marcel Marceau SADLER'S WELLS Opened July 31 IT IS, I suppose, generally acknowledged that Marcel Marceau has brought the art of solo mime to its highest standard during the past thirty years or so and. to judge from his present Sadler's Wells season, with undiminished personal popularity. He was last here three years ago. so already there is a generation of youngsters unfamiliar with his art. ...

... showed that she has developed into an ex citing ballerina with a dazzling technique characterised by an ex ceptionally clear-cut line which allows no room for the tentative gesture. Though this stands her in better stead as Odile, she expresses the yearning unhappiness of Odette with strong lyrical feeling. Jonathan Kelly, dancing Siegfried, further confirmed that he is a young artist of great ...

... Swan Lake LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET returned to the Royal Festival Hall on August 21 for their short summer season. A trifle travel-worn, perhaps, but glowing with new confidence after their huge success in the USA. There are ballets one would prefer to Swan Lake for opening a sea son, but it served tolerably well as a vehicle for the now dazzling Peter Schaufuss and the ...

... Seven Deadly Sins ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA THE BRECHT-WEILL opera-ballet. The Seven Deadly Sins, was given a neat, concise new production by the English National Opera at the Coliseum on August 22. Very much of the 1930s, this satirical parable of a girl's progress to success in show business has little dramatic action being merely a succession of seven short scenes depicted in dancing to ...

... spectacular ballet in parti cular. Given London's chronic shor tage of central lyric theatres, and also a historic connection with the building, it would perhaps be unkind to censure London Festival Ballet's Swan Lake season for faults which are those of the concert hall rather than the company All the same, you would have to go a long way to find a less ethereal swan-flock than on August 22 ...

... Royal Ballet season THE ROYAL BALLET opens its 1978-79 season at the Royal Opera House on October 19 with a perfor mance of Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, featuring David Wall and Lynn Seymour. On November 23 there will be the first performance by the Royal Ballet of George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer, to Brahms' score, with scenery by David Hayes and costumes by Barb ara Karinska. ...

... ALEXANDER ROY LONDON BALLET THEATRE IN ITS RECENT WEEK at the Ashcroft Theatre. Croydon. The AlexanderRoy London Ballet Theatre (formerly International Bailer Caravan) shows that it is building a stronger team of dancers and a more interesting repertoire than previously. There are still problems. however, and the 1977 production of a one-act Coppelia embodies many of these. Basically this ...

... Memorial for Paul ALL FOR PAUL, a gala in aid of the Paul Clarke Memorial Fund, is being presented at the Coliseum on October 15. An exceptionally in teresting programme includes Christoper Gable and Lynn Seym our. re-creating their famous Royal Ballet partnership with the pas de deux from The Two Pigeons; Svetlana Beriosova reciting Lord of the Dance, which she has con ceived, to ...