Four male performers, who double expertly as singers and dancers, time-travel through a bewildering succession of identities – from medieval monks and troubadours to construction workers and football fans.
"They offered the intrepid balletomane unique perspectives on some of the world's greatest dancers," Times music critic Martin Bernheimer wrote in 1976.
I feel very close to the dancers every time they perform it".
Few dancers can time the preparation to, and arrival from, double air turns to such musically satisfying effect.
A firm-handed matriarch with a definite but undogmatic point of view, Ms. Waters gives her dancers the time and place to grow.
Again, dancers (this time in fanciful 19th-century dress by Omotayo W. Olanja) throw off their mortal coil and end up purified in white.
There Robbins used primarily show dancers; this time, he has had to impress his vision on a group of artists lacking both Broadway savvy and his firsthand experience of that now classic age--postwar New York.
Later that afternoon, another set of dancers, this time representing Christ's apostles, paint themselves white.
The band and the dancers spent time in 12-hour-a-day rehearsals in New York before moving on to Europe.
