... 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 ...