“Look out, world, Mr. Balanchine is in his avant-garde mood again! For his latest work […] George Balanchine is using musique concréte. The ballet is called ‘Variations Pour une Porte et une Soupir’.
“The title means ‘Variations for a door and a sigh,’ […] The sigh is played by a man, and the door is played by a woman. There seems to be some kind of sphinx like confrontation, which ends when the man is stalled alive by the woman’s voluminous cloak.”
—Clive Barnes, New York times, 1974.
Karin Von Aroldingen and John Clifford. Photos by Fred Fehl
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