2 BROOKLYN ACAOEMY OF MUSIC OCTOBER 1970 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 3
Brooklyn Festival of Dance 1970-71
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
in cooperation with
The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
presents the
Martha Graham
Dance Company
By arrangement with H aro ld Shaw
Bertram R oss Helen McGehee Mary Hinkson Matt Turney Richard Gain R obert Powell Richard Kuch Patricia Birch Takako A sakawa Phyllis Gutelfus Moss Cohen Diane Gray Judith Hogan Judith Leifer Yuriko Kimura Dawn Suzuki David Hatch Walker Lar Roberson and GUEST ARTLSTS Jane Dudley Jean Erdman Pearl Lang
C onducto r : Eugene Lester Associate C onductor: Stanl ey Sussman Settings: l amu Noguchi , Arch Lauterer, Philip Stapp Lighting: Jean Ro entha l and William H. Batchelder Rehearsal Directo r : Patricia Birch C ompany Co-Director: Bertram Ross Production Ma nager : Willia m H. Batchelder Costume Supervision : Ursul a Reed
Produced by LeRoy Leatherman
The per for m a m:e~ o f the M artha Graham Dance Company at the Brooklyn Academy or Mu~ic are made p os~io l e by g r a nt ~ fro m the ation at Endowment l or the A rt , the Lila Acheson Wallace f-und, The Ford F oundation, the ew York State Council on the A rts and individual donor~ . Baldwin is the official piano o f the B rooklyn Academy o f 1\ t usic.
The un a uth o ri .~:e d use of cam er a or recording equipment is ~trict l y prohibited duri ng perform.mce~ . 4 I BROOKLYN A CAG E MY OF M USIC I OCTOBER 1970 Brookly n Ac ad e m v of M u sic The ~ The Uroo/,ftn , fcac/e/11\' of .\lrl\ic i1 a deturtllll'llf of the !Jrookl.rn ln.ltifllfe of ArtJ and Sciences .
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'>e<.: unt y. the modern dance I'> not fo r you," pt.: riod of a\ tounding producti vit y. She pr ~ c., he c.,;u d 1n 1~no mlercd f~ t ·erv S o ul I s a Circ us in 191 Y, thereby inspiring Walter T erry to write in ·r hough a choreographe1, her a rti '> tic The N e ll' Y o r/.. //(• raid Trihune: " Martha VI'> IOn I'> not l11nit ed to human movement (iraham turned out to be the Beatrice Lillie o n '> lage, '> he c.,ee'> dance a'> a total theater of the dance and <, he\ been hiding it from event. She '>ee b to integrate '>O und, li ght , co'>t ume, deco1 and sets, oft en d e'> igning the lighting, costume'> and '>el'> hel '>e lf. In th1 ., <.,he ha., collabou1ted with thi., <.:e nllu y\ great al ll'> t'> -Nogucht and (ald er for '>e t'>, Jean Ro.,enthal for light ing, blythe CJilford f01 CO'>lll 111 t.:'>, Aaron Copl a nd and Louis IIOI'> t for m U'>lC ll '> ing the i1 ind ividual blll liance to le
A fter <.,et.: mg 1~1 Penitente in 1940, ~ t ar !... Young comment ed 1n the Nell' R epuhlic: "M i'>'> ( Jr aham 111 my op1nio n i., the mo'> t import ant lt.:S'>O n for o u1 theat1 e that we now have .. . In the th1 ee p<.: I'>O ns o f tht.: Penll ente pl ay the1e I'> such a '>O und 1n g out of v1olent ec.,ta'>y, cr udc a nd orgla'>tic, mu ... i cal a nd dark, a'> i'> not to be fo und ebc wh<.:re 111 ou1 theatr<.:"
l:) Penrtc• nte i'> a mo ng t h<.: f 1ve full -length da nce-drama\-each recognized a'> a monu mental achi evement-created by M i'>'> (J ra ham between 1919 and 1941. It wa.., :1
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l.eller to th<• W o rld A ppalochian Sprin~:
UA kUA HA MOH C,AN U'> all the\e year<;. " Every Soul rs a Circus" ... is by far her greatest contribution to theatrical dance."
In 1940 '> he CJeat <.: d Leiter to the World. The critics acknowledged it as one of the mo'> t importa nt choreographic work'> of the century. Jo hn Martin, o ne of Mi ..,c.; Graham's earliest champion'>, said in The N e ll' York Ti11 w \ at that time:
''Dealing a<; it doc:-. with the legend, if not the life, of Emily Dickin..,on, and matching itself against . . . quotation:-. fro m her magicall y evocati ve poetry, it has dared an impO'>'>ibilit y and come through triumphant ly ... the compo'> ition stand '> fo rth as a work o f pure gcniu'>.
"From the moment when one of the two unidentified fig u1 c:-. faces the other with l::. mil y Dickinson\ own lin e, 'Tm nobody! Who arc you?" there is created a curious seme o f fanta ~y in which one automaticall; believes - there emerges with heart-warm ing fullness a sense of that bright and vital creature who glows like a living presence through the poems of Emily Di c kin ~o n . Miss G ra ham has frankly ignored the 'llb stantiated d ata of biography for the roman ti c legend but she has created somcth in~ so real that it will be hard to con.inc~ anybody who see'> it that an:r other l·. mll] is PO'>S ible .. ,
ln 1943 when she premie red D eath\ and Entrances, Edwin Denby wrote in 'Fih' Nel'' York H erald Tribune:
"The action concerns three siste rs. Mem ories and fantasies are personified by other dancer , whom they move among and touch, so that reality and imagination are no lo nger distinct experiences. The Bronte si.,tcr... a r~ a kind of model. But the piece is in no sense biographical. One might d cscrib~ it as a poem, a seque nce of tightly pacJ...ed and generall y violent images following a '>lib- El Penirenre ll'ith Eric Hall'f...in\ and l'vferce C 111111 ingham
rn addition to her choreographic accom plishments and her theatrical innovations, '> he was the first choreographer to com mission a musical score. In doing thi'> she freed the choreographer from following 3 pre-arranged musical structure and gave to dance a new independence and dignity.
Louis Horst, who c reated many compo ~it i o n s for her, served as her artistic and '>pi ritual mentor as well as her mo<,t ruthless critic. She recently spoke of their relation ... hip to an audience of young dancers at the Connecticut College American Dance F-e..,ti val in New London. Smiling impi'>hly, she saiJ: "Louis was an awful, all'ful man. Once I showed him a work r wa.., choreo graphing a nd he simply tore it to shred'>. ' Louis,' I protested, 'you're J...illing my soul.· Th~n it is better for it to die now,' he replied." ANORI IU ·RTI S/ Obviously Miss Graham\ -.oul survived El'(!ry Soul Is a Circus ll'ith Eric H all'f...in.\ the ordeal. In five decade'> -.he ha'> choreo gr.aphcJ one hunJrcJ anJ forty-five worb. She has developed a technique for the train con cious logic ... it is certainly a ma'>ter ing of dancers that i'> taught throughout the piece of romantic distortion in chorcogr.l woriJ. And from her company have come phy and ro m antic insurgence in emotion." '>Orne of the finest dancers of the twentieth 8 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970
century. man~ of whom - Merce Cunning life through movement. Its only aim is to ham. Eric Hav. kins, Anna Sokolow, Paul impart the sensation of living, to energize Ta) lor. John Butler - have gone on to the spectator into keener awareness of the become rna ter choreographers in their ov.-n vigor. of the mystery, the humor, the variety right. In every a pect of dance, her in and the wonder of life; to send the spectator fluence is felt. away with a fuller sense of his own potenti a lities and the power of realizing them, Yet in looking back. there is seemingly whatever the medium of his activity." nothing in her family background that would encourage a profes ional interest in the In creating her own form for dance, M iss performing ar1 . As a matter of fact. her Graham creates a tota l vision for theater. involvement v.ith dance developed despi Denishawn Dance Company, she made her "WIZ'elcc>..-1e .D..bo-. ~d theatrical debut in 1920 in the title role of Xochtl by Ted Shawn. For four years she toured the continent with the company, do ing Spanish and Oriental dancing, as well as some vaudeville. Then in J 923 she left Deni hawn to become a soloist in the Greenv.-ich Village Follies. Three years later she turned her back on ''show business" and began to teach at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. In that arne year she performed her ov.n work in New York Cit). beginning what was to become a radi cal turn for Jance. "My dancing is just dancing,'' she has Anchor Sav- ings Bank said. "It is not an attempt to interpret life BROOKLYN • MANHATTAN • STATEN ISLAND • NASSAU, L I rn a literary sense. It is the affirmation of We Can't Do An Arabesque, But Making Homes Beautiful Keeps Us On Our Toes At Sachs New York, making homes beautiful is an art. Our Interior Designers, all true artists and highly trained professional s, are always happy to help with your decorating problems. Dial MElrose 5-5300 for instant assistance. Or drop in to any of our stores for a Decorator Consu ltation, compliments of Sachs New York. SACHS New York's Number 1 Fu rniture Speciali st In Brooklyn: 559 Fulton St., Marine Park: Flatbush Avenue and Ave.V (Opposite Kings Plaza) and throughout the Metropolitan area EWYORK BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 9 Sunday Evening, October 4, 1970, 7:30 p.m. Subscription Performance Brooklyn Academy of Music The Martha Graham Dance Company Phaedra INTERMISSION Appalachian Spring c INTERMISSION Deaths & Entrances 10 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 PHAEDRA Music by Robert Starer Set by Isamu Noguchi Lighting by Jean Rosenthal Choreography by Martha Graham Choreography, musical score and set design commissioned through the courtesy of a former student who wishes to remain anonymous. Phaedra's father was Minos, King of Crete, and her mother was Pasiphae, she who, cursed by Poseidon, lusted for a bull and conceived the Minotaur. Phaedra's sister was Ariadne, who gave Theseus the secret of the labyrinth and fled with him and was lost on Naxos. Phaedra herself married Theseus in his later years and came as his queen to Athens a'ld there found Hippolytus, his son. A great hunter and athl ete, worshipper of chaste Artemis, Hippolytus was Theseus's pride ... but he was hated by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, whom he scorned, and she puni<..h~d him. As Poseidon had cursed Pasiphae, Aphrodite cur:)ed Phaedra with un controllable lu t for her husband's son. Hippoly~us spurned her, as he would have spurned an~ \\oman. and Phaedra, shamed, anguished, de~ perate, determined to kill herself. Before she died, she wrote a Jetter to Theseus accusing Hippolytus of having violated her. Theseus finding her dead, fin ding the letter, drove his son out and cursed him. Hippolytus, fleeing, w~ts killed . . . then Thesus learned the truth. Martha Graharr's Phaedra is focussed upon that time outside of time when, at the pitch of her lust, Phacdra chooses the lie, s~cs it as reali ty and sees its consequences even as, in a nightmare vision of the past and of Pasiphae's lust, she understands her own lust and tragedy. The Characters Phaedra Matt Turney Hippolytus Robert Powell Theseus Richard Kuch D Artemis Phyllis Gutelius Aphrodite Mary Hinkson Pasiphae Dawn Suzuki The Bull Dancers The Company INTERMISSION BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 11 APPALACHIAN SPRING Music by Aaron Copland Set by Isamu Noguchi Lighting by Jean Rosenthal Choreography by Martha Graham Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress Springtime in the Appalachian wilderness is celebrated by a young man and woman about to be married, by a revivalist preacher and his followers and by a pioneer woman who dreams of the Promised Land. The Pioneer Woman Matt Turney The Revivalist Bertram Ross The Followers Diane Gray, Judith Hogan, Yuriko Kimura, Dawn Suzuki The Husbandman Richard Gain The Bride Helen McGehee INTERMISSION 12 I BROOKLYN ACAOEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 DEATHS AND J~NTHANCES* Music hy IIunt(•r Johnson Set hy Arch I... auten•r I...ighting hy Jean nos€'nthal Choreography hy Martha Graham The action takes place in a room and the halls of an ancient house. It concerns three sisters "doom eager" as the three Bronte sisters were "doom eager" to fulfill their destiny. It concerns the restl ess pacin gs of the heart on some winter evening. There are remem brances of childhood, certain dramati.lations of well-known objects, dreams of romance, hatreds bred of longings and madness. It is "imagination kindled at antique fires." This is essentially a legend of poetic experience rather than a story of incident. In the life of the heart there arc invisible actors and "Deaths and Entrances" with no barriers of period or time. Rather, there is a suspension of time and subsequent intensification of experience at the sight of some simple remembered object· a shell, a gl The Characters The Three Sisters Mary Hinkson, Matt Turney, Phyllis Gutelius The Three Remembered Children Takako Asakawa, Diane Gray, Yuriko Kimura The Dark Beloved Bertram Ross The Poetic lleloved Richard Gain The Cavaliers Moss Cohen, David Hatch Walker •·r he title is from a poem by Dylan 1 homas ------BROOKLYN ----ACADE---MY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 1J PFIZER: people who care Being a Big Brother to a lonely boy ... working with the men tally retarded ... counseling young people on drug abuse ... coaching Little Leaguers ... are just a few of the personal activities of Pfizer people throughout the globe. Concern for others also is a Company commitment. A Pfizer volunteer program enables employees to contribute their time and talent in the areas of youth programs, education and em ployment. Pfizer also sponsors many training programs and work-study projects, and provides scholarship aid for minority groups, deserving medical students and children of employees. Serving medicine, industry, agriculture and the home 14 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 The Mar·tha Gr·ahant Dane~ Contpany MAR rHA G RAHA~f . f10m early in her inc luding the New York City Ballet in career, ha" had recognition from perceptive Balanchine's Fi~-r11res in the Carpet. This audiences and from leaders in the ;. rt v. OJ id. season s he appears fo r the first time in In 1eccnt years she h:1s Ieccived honorary two reknown Graham roles in £/ Penitente degrees from eight colleges a nd universities, a nd Deaths and Entronces. including Harvard and Hrandci'o. I kr gena a! influence on all the arh wa., pointed MATI TURNEY. who rc~.:civcd her aca dcmi ~.: and fir-.t dance training at the Ur.i up hy the A ... pcn Aw.~rd in the llum:anitie-.. an international award comp;11 able tn Im ver.,•ty of WJ'> I.: Oll\lll . .,tlld1cd at the Martha portance to the Nobel Prize. and hy the Graham Center before joining the com more recent award from the Ame1ican Jn pany. She ha-. pc1 fo1 med a wide range of major role-. - both lyric and dramatic - \lttutc of Art... and Letter.... He• other award., mclude prize:. from the L ottt'> ( lub in the Graham repe rtoire and returns this (Award of Merit), Pasadena Playhou'>e sea-.on in Miss Graham\ role in Plwedra. (Achievement in the Theatre), City ('Ju t> PEARL LANG , who i" now di•ector of the of New York (Oistingui:. hed New Yorker), Pearl Lang Dance Company, had heen a Adve1 ti.,ing Women of New Yor;,. ( I J\cly soloist wit h the Martha G1aham nan~.:e Art... Award) and Brandel'> U n iver-.ity Company for many years. Twice the re~.:ip (Crcattve Arh Award). Mm< recently <..he ient o f Guggenheim l·e ll owships. s he has, recetved the award of the Society for the since 1952, ~.: h oreographed over thirty-fi ve htrmly of Man and the National l als ti tute dances both for her own company and of Art... and letters. Her collahoration with companies here and abroad. in ~.: ludin g the contcmpo1ary compo:.ers brought !act the Bo-.ton Ba llet Company, Netherlands Na Laurel l caf of the Composer., ,\lliance fo1 tional Ballet and the Ba t.,heva Company of he• .,e, vices to mu.,ic. brae!. For the curre nt -.ea ... on -.he appear a., a guest artist with the Graham company Bl R I RAM ROSS is the kt~dtn~ mak in Le((er to the World, a dance in whi~.:h dancer of the Manha Graham Dane..: Ct)fll she had played many different roles in pany a., well a., its co-dire~.:tor . An accom previou:. mountings of the work. She now plt..,hed pwnist a nd arti:.t, it wa:. through plays the role of Emily Dickin-.on. whi~.:h is, paint1ng that he be~.:ame so intct e-.tcd tn along with Clytemc-.t ra. Mi.,-, G1aham\ movement that he began to take dan~.:c most famous role. cla'>'>C\. Soon he wa-. pe1 fo1ming lead l()k-. in the Graham repertory. II i-. d1o1eography JANF DUDI l· Y. \\ ho JCtUJJh a-. a gliL j>t t'o rekno""n for it:. depth, 01 iginaltty and arti'>t with the ~.:om pan y th1-. -.ca.,on, had theatJt ~.::tl tt y. Owes, fir:.t presented at the been a member of the Graham company YM II A th1 -. "P' mg. is the fir-.t dance work from 193 5 to 19-16. I rom I Y-1:! to 1952 other than MJ\s Graham\ ever to be com -. he ""as a member l.)f the Dudley- 1a-.low llll'o'oJOned by the Martha (Jraham ( ente1. Balc-.- Dance 1110. ~he -.cJ vcd a-. p1 e\Jdent of 'I he New Dance (noup fo1 the ne \.1 fif ll cl L:N M~.:(,E il l:.C: . who wil l appear th1-. teen year-.. I· • om 196X to 1969 -. he ""a" ar sea\on fo1 the f1r \ t time 111 Mi-.-. (Jrah.tJll.., ti ... tic dire ~.: tor fo1 the Batsheva D ance Com ongmal role of the bride in A ppalachwn pany in hrael. .~pnn~-:. ha-. performed many important role'> JEAN E RDMAN, who retu1n-. this season 1n Mi-,., (JJaham\ works. In re~.:ent year '> as a guest ani-.t with the Graham compa ny, 'ohe IOUJed (;ree~.:e a-. guest aJti'>l with the made her debut as a da111.:er with the Martha ( ho1odrame llellenique and ha., formed he• G ra ham D a n ~.:e Com pany in 1 91~ . She is own dance ~.:o mpany whi~.: h gives yearly per well -known for he r ov. n c horeography in fo • man~.:es tn New York and tours between (J raham -.ea-.on-.. duding The Coach ll'llh the Si.\ Jn .\ides and for her s taging of m :.ny plays. She has MARY HINKSON i'> one of the great '>tar-. heen arti s t - in -re:. iden ~.:e a t many uni versi tie ~ of ~.:ontempora r y dance. She has appea• ed and headeJ the dance depa1tment., a t Co ,,.., ,, -.olot-.t w11h all maJOr dan~.:e ~.:o mpant e-., lumbia 'J e:~~.:he r -. Coll ege a nd Bard Coll ege. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 15 ROBERT POWELL graduated from the TAKAKO ASAKA WA ~tud i ed dance in New York High School of Performing Arts. Tokyo before coming to the United States. In addition to dancing with the Graham She joined the Graham company in 1962, company, he has performed on television a year after her arrival in America. This and been a featured dancer with almost all season in Brooklyn and on the company's of the major American dance companies. forthcoming U. S. tour, she will share the Most recently he appeared with the London starring role in Every Soul Is a Circus. Contemporary Dance Theatre. PHYLLIS GUTELIUS began her studies PATRICIA BIRCH comes back to the G ra with Martha Graham in 1960 and became a ham Company after a long absence to per company member two years later. On form Miss Graham's famed satiric role in Broadway she performed in The Little Every Soul Is a Circus. In the interim, in H ouse of Uncle Thomas and in The King addition to being the company's rehearsal and I . This season she will appear with director, she has been pursuing a new the company, performing Miss Graham·~ career, staging and choreographing such role in El Penitente, as well as starring as productions as You're a Good Man, Charley one of the Three Sisters in Deaths and Brown and the current hit, The Me Nobody Entrances. Knows. EUGENE LESTER, co mpo~er and con RICHARD GAIN appeared with the Gra ductor, is music director of the Graham ha m company in 1962 and 1963, returning company, which he has served in a variety now to dance in many of the revivals. He of capacities since 1948. In addition to con has performed in Jerome Robbins' Ballets: ducting and compo ing, he has taught and U.S.A. and has played lead roles in the performed on a large number of instruments C ity Center Jeffrey Ballet, the Cullberg including the violin, piano, organ, cello, Ballet of Sweden and American Ballet harpsichord and carillon. He has also com Theatre. posed for, organized and conducted choirs a nd choruses. RICHARD KUCH was a member of the Graham company for eight years. H e has returned now aft er a seven year absence, during which he danced with the Cullberg Among the youngest members of the com Ballet of Sweden and performed with many pany now being assigned important roles major American dance companies. He has are Moss Cohen, Diane Gray, Judith Leifer, also choreographed for several dance com Dawn Suzuki, Yuriko Kimura, David Hatch panies in the United States and Canada. Walker and Lar Roberson. Fur the Martha Graham Dance Company Press Representative for Martha Graham Isadora Bennett Assistant to Producer Larry Hecker Stage Manager Jane Clegg Assistant Stage Manager Howard Crampton-Smith Production Secretary Norma Fassnacht Miss Graham and the Company gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Pearl Lang, Jane Dudley, Jean Erdman a nd Bertram Ross in the revival of Letter to the World. Exclusive Management Shaw Concerts, Inc .. 233 W. 49th Sr., ew York, . Y. 10019. (212) 581-4654. Cable address: Shawconcer. For the Aca<.lemy of Music Lighting by Four Star Lighting 16 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 It's Happening American Ballet Jeff Duncan and Dance Company Premieres Theater Workshop On October 16 and 17 Dance Theater Four Dances Work!>hop Director Jeff Duncan and mem bers of D.T.W. will make their fir t a p- Four premieres - three by Eliot Feld a nd one by Bruce Marks - will highlight the two-week engagement from October 21 to November I of Eliot Feld's American Ballet Company at the Brooklyn Academy. In it'> American debut in Broo kl yn Ia t year, the then nine month old company received conc,iderable critical acclaim and "'On an enthu'>iastic following of admirers. For the coming season the compa ny will present thirteen ballets. including CorteRe Burle.\que. Harhinger, lnterme;::::.o, The \1 aids. ,'I-f ead011"!ark and Early Songs. In addition. Feld will present three new works, A Poem f orROtten, ( mu ic by W allingford Riegger), Cortege Pa ri~iene ( mu <., ic by C ha brier). and The Consort (Eli zabetha n music of Dowland-Marley- Newsdidder-Johnson) , V. SLAOON Jeff Duncan's Winesburg Portraits pea ra nces at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Da nce Theate r Workshop, whic h was founded by Mr. Dunca n in 1964, is a unique organization created to encourage innovation and experimentation by talented choreographe rs. Friday and Saturday eve ning's performances will feature work chor eographed by Mr. Duncan. The October 16 program will include the premiere of The Glade, as well as Res onances and Winesburg Portraits, a d ance inspired by Sherwood Ande rson's novel Winesburg, Ohio, and danced to a taped t!tot I eld tn At Midni~-thL collage of American folk music. The Glade, Vinculum, Diminishing Land Bruce ~ ark\ new work, as yet untitled, scape, and Statement will highlight Satur U'>e'> mu<.,ic by Francaix. d ay evening's performance. Tickets for the Brooklyn season are on Tickets are o n sale now at the Academy '>ale at the Academy box office and at box office. The price of tickets is $3.00 A & S. Bloomingdale's and Ticketron. and 54.50. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 17 • Ill Brool~lyn Brooklyn Dance Cafe Academy Festival Subscriptions Bows in Brooklyn Audiences in Brooklyn are people who love dance a nd come often to the Acadcm). This Season Special ubscription rates help reduce the expense. It i'> now possible to dine at the Academy Thi year the Brooklyn Festival o f Dance -at the Cafe Academy. located in the offer an e pecially exciting schedule of Main Lobby. events beginning with the Martha Graham D a nce Company and followed by the two M aking its debut thi-, season. the Cafe week e ngagement from October 21 to No offers appetizers, sandwiches. cold entrees, vember I of E liot Feld's American Ballet desserts and beverages. including such ex Compa n y. From November 3 to November otic foods as avocado stuffed with shrimp 15 Mc ree Cunningha m a nd Dance Company salad, fa ncy french pastry, baklava. brandied c heese cake a nd a melange of fruits and cot tage cheese. The prices arc low. M a naging the Cafe a rc Mr. and Mrs. Joe Franchi. a n ewly married couple (this September). who began their restaurant career at the Academy three years ago when they were both students at Pratt Jn stitllte. At that time, the Academy a-,1-.ed Pratt's Department of Restaurant Manage ment to suggest a catering service for a cocktail party. Joe Franchi. then Prc-,idcnt of the Gormct C lub at Pratt. and Mary Lee, now Mrs. Franchi. took the job. Having since in corporated themselves into Haute Cuisine. Inc .. they have catered at least one hundred and sixty special occa sions, som etimes serving up to two thou sand people at one time. They always use stude nts or former students from Pratt to help them. Last November they organized three par ties in three day-, for the Academy. The Laum Pronra and J or~e Donn in Maurice first evenin g they catered a reception celc Bejar(.\ /Vf e\.\e Pour Le Temp\ Pre1en1 bratino the opening of LcRoi Jones' S/ave .1hip. Soul food was served. ·r he next night wi ll appear a t the Academy, and M aurice it was a reception for the opening of the Bejart's Ballet of the Twentieth Century Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. will make its American debut in the Opera Greek food was prepared. The couple spent Ho use from J anuary 25 to February 7. It the third evening catering a private party is a ll in Brooklyn. for Jerzy Grotowsl..i. One hundred guests were served a complete ten course Chinese S ubscriptio ns are still avail able - until dinner. O ctobe r 9 - for the special three-perform a nce series which includes the Fcld com Their newest venture, Cafe Academy, pany, Mcree C unningham. and Bcjart. In will be open ninety minutes before curtain addition to severa l premie res by each of the time for evenin g performance'> on week c horeographers. subscriber will see a c ross day . On Saturday and Sunday the Cafe section of the repertoire of each company. will be open from 4:30 p.m. until curtain Price for subscriptions range from $4.50 time. There will also be intermi<,sion service. to $ 16.50. Subscription folder that provid .\ <·adE"my Dan<:"e Center Transportation lnformation Classe for ages 6-15 in ballet/ modern For bus schedules from Manhattan and in dance. Please call 783-6700. formation on public transportation, call 857-1575. Bar A bar serving liquor and soft drinks is Express Buses - Manhattan to BAM located in the Academy's M ain Lobby. Direct buses for most evening events leave Service is available one hour prior to cur S.W. corners unless otherwise noted. No tain and during intermissions. reservations necessary. Return: 15 minutes after performance. Fare: $1.25 round trip, Box Offi<·e 75 cents return (if avail able). Schedule for Ticket booth in Main Lobby 8:00 curtain. Buses lem•e one-half hour Telephone: 783-2434 earlier for 7:30 curtain and one-half hour Hours: later for 8:30 curtain. Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. East Side On performance days Lexington Ave. & 86th St. - 6:45 p.m. I 0 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lexington Ave. & 72nd St.-6:58 p.m. Sunday performance days Lexington Ave. & 60th St.-7 :02 p.m. I p.m. to 9 p.m. Lexington Ave. & 42nd St.-7:07 p.m. Second Ave. & 14th St.-7:17p.m. Che<·k Hoom Second Ave. & E. 5th St.-7 :20 p.m. Located in the Main Lobby next to the bar Academy of Music arrival-7 : 40 p.m. Drinkin~ Fountains W est Side Located in the restrooms in both the Opera Broadway & 86th St.-6:52 p.m. House a nd the Music Hall Broadway & 72nd St.-6:56 p.m. E levators B'way & 58th St. (N.W. Corner)-7:00 p.m. 7th Ave. & 42nd St.-7:05 p.m. Two elevators from Main Lobby to Opera 7th Ave. & 14th St. (N.W. Cor.)-7: 13 p.m. Hou~e Balcony and Third Theater W. 8th St. & Avenue of Americas Information (S.E. Corner)-7: 18 p.m. Academy of Music arrival-7:40 p.m. Round <;tand~ in Main Lobby near front entrance~ or at box office Transportation Lo... t and Found SUBWAYS: (All subway stop are located Hou<;e Manager's Office, Stage Entrance within one block of the Academy) Telephone: 783-6700 Atlantic Avenue Stop IRT (Lex. Ave.) Loun~es a nd Restrooms IRT ( B'way. & 7th Ave.) Opera House IN 0 ( "0" and "QJ" Brighton - BMT) Ladies, Orchestra and Balcony Levels Pacific Street Stop Men, Mezzanine and Balcony Levels BMT ("B": West End, "N": Sea Beach, " RR": 4th Ave. Local) Mu-;ic Ha ll Fulton Street Stop Ladies, Orchestra Level 1NO ("GG" Train) Men, Balcony Level Lafayette Avenue Stop l'ubli<· Telephone · JNO (''A" Train) Main Lobby, Ashland Place Entrance Refreshment~ Blooming-dale's, Abraham & S trau ~ Available in Main Lobby during intermis and Ticke tron Outlets sions. Please do not bring refreshments into Tickets for the Brooklyn Academy the Auditoriums. of Music's Fall/ Winter Festival of Dance are avail able at all Abraham H e~htu rant & Straus stores and at Bloomingdale's Monday through Friday evenings open in Manhattan and H ackensack, New ninety minutes prior to curtain and during Jersey. C ustomers may charge tickets intermission. Saturday and Sunday matinees to their accounts. open from 4:30 p.m. to evening curtain. Tickets may also be purchased Smokin~ through Ticketron. For Ticketron out Jn Main Lobby, Lounges & Restrooms only lets, call (2 12) 644-4400. The Brooklyn Academy building is owned by the City of New York and funds for its m aintenam·e are administered by the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affair s Adminis tration, John V. Lindsay, Mayor; August Hecksher, Administrator. DINE BY GASLIGHT Monday and Tuesday evenings. It's pleasant, nostalgic. Don 't miss it. Winner of 18 annual HOLI DAY GAGE AND TOLLNER Ma gazine Awards BROOKLYN'S LANDMARK RESTAURANT EST. ~-..-...... :::~~ 372 FULTON ST. , BROOKLYN • 2 Blocks from Boro Hall • TRiangle 5-5181 1879 OPEN 11:30 AM TO 9 PM, SAT. til 9:30 • Closed Sundays Broo~tyn Store Open li 9:00 Monday and Thur~day Forg e AHEAD . . . ·n neatly tapered b azer striped shirts. Red Navy, Navy Red or Brown Gold. I 0.00 handsomely matched silk neckwear in tantalizing colors and patterns. From 6.50 to 12.50 Gentlemen's Corner- street floor Brooklyn Garden City Babylon Huntington Smith Haven Mall MICHEL'S RESTAURANT Estabiished 1910 Founded and Operated by The MICHLL. Family Complete Banquet Facilities 346 FLA TBUSH A VENUE BROOKLYN, N. Y. Free Parking NEvins 8-4552 I Bowing of Cafe Delayed Cafe Academy, which is described on page seventeen of the program, will not open until a later date due to the delayed arrival of equipment.