... Their dancel were not so much anatomically striking as rich in their range of sources. They travelled on from their native America and Jack Moore's Songs Remembered, a sensitive dance building towards a tender togetherness, to movement inspiried by Japanese ...

... aware of the possible shapes and pat terns into which they can extend themselves. Contact improvisation has been ex plored in America over the past nine years, primarily by Steve Paxton and his colleagues. Gradually it is being extend ed into the British dance ...

... Going West SOHO POLY WITH HIS mythical tale of a journey across America, a sort of latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, Tony Craze has written an extremely powerful play and we should be grateful to the Poly for bringing it to us in their Off Broadway season ...

... whose life was so bizzarely cut short just prior to the Second World War, while fleeing the Nazis in Paris, on his way to America. It is a timeless tale of unemployment leading to despair and destitution and eventual suicide in the face of an inflexible ...

... soon abandons Julie when pregnant with Jason. Hence the need for Julie to earn some brass, since the footballer zamooshes to America and refuses to cough up. At the end of the show, Julie dis appears in a blaze of music to do her act. Fry is particularly ...

... COUNCIL-backed perfor mers will have to wait for their chance of Cable Television star dom. Daunted by reports of disasters in America, the national funding body is taking i cautious approach to sugges tions that it should be cornering the market in taking ...

... Chekhov's On the Harmful Effects of Smoking Tobacco, becomes an illustrated lan tern slide show of Audubon's Birds of America, in the course of which the lecturer's austere professional de meanour disappears into a welter of neurotic outpourings. ...

... have forsaken their black roots, capitulating to money and fame. The show has the serious basic theme of the state of black America, but it is also entertaining and overflowing with razzmatazz, as idols both past and present are gleefully levelled to the ...

... Metropolitan Opera season can celled, the WNO brought off a remar kable coup, in bringing the Puerto Rico-born Pablo Elvira from America to Cardiff for his British debut. His superb voice lifted the whole performance, his tone and finely ludged phrasing delighting ...

... back to his club for some peace and quiet. There are two sets by Donald Crosbie which evoke well the atmos phere of middle America in the thirties. Peter Hepple on a court drama that smoulders with an atmosphere of intrigue and corruption Ruffled--SARA ...

... rock-musical traces the rise of the Beatles from unknowns in Ham burg, with Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best, to sell out tours of America and beyond and then Lennon 's passion for family life in New York. Dimery's riveting words were com plemented by eleven new ...

... translation which is a bit too clever for its good. With designer Ian Millstone he has hit on the idea of setting it ill in Latin America during the later years of the Second Empire. I'm not entirely convinced that you can parallel Maximilian with Bajazet is Asteria ...