![]() With a text by Ulla Ryum that is heard on tape, the work was directed as a theater piece by Miss Ryum and Miss Weinreich. But its modern-dress treatment of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth holds together. It is more a sketch than a developed piece, and it needs more form in the movement. ''Letters to Orpheus'' was choreographed this year in a workshop by Arlette Weinreich, a dancer in the company. As New Yorkers have already learned this season, Bournonville is out to delight his audience of all ages. But this is not the side that interests their choreographer. Bournonville ballets like the highly unusual ''A Folk Tale'' - still to come this week - do hint at a somber aspect of existence. Such murderous struggles for domination present a darker side of 19th-century Scandinavian theatrical tradition than the Danish company's sunny joyous 19th-century ballets by August Bournonville. But actually, this short theatrical duet had a sardonic twist that could be traced to the broader panorama of male-female relationships as dissected by the Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. THE Orpheus legend came in for the Scandinavian treatment Saturday night with the New York premiere and single performance of the Royal Danish Ballet's ''Letters to Orpheus'' at the Metropolitan Opera House.Īdvance reports had suggested a women's liberation tract. ![]()
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