Article: Mary Anthony Dance Theatre.(Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York, New York)

To celebrate her eightieth birthday and the fortieth anniversary of her company, the highly respected modern dance teacher Mary Anthony offered a retrospective program of her dances. Appropriately, the choreography ranged from Anthony's strongest works, those of 1956, to a premiere. Two dances were offered from the company's initial year: Songs, a beautiful paean to youth and lyricism, and Threnody, which depicts the suffering engendered by war--all war, any war. While the works from the early seventies, A Ceremony of Carols and Cain and Abel, are less successful, Tabula Rasa, the premiere shows the continuing creativity of this remarkable woman.

A Ceremony of ...

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