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...Varo’s “Harmony (Suggestive Self-Portrait)” (1956), a self-depiction as a mystic in a hallowed space, evocative of Renaissance depictions of St Jerome, fetched $6.2mn in 2020....
...The score, a jazzy patchwork of Richard Rodney Bennett and 1920s popular song, is played by the Northern Ballet Sinfonia in dance band mode under Daniel Parkinson’s frisky baton....
...David Nixon’s costumes conjure the Jazz Age with flair and Jérôme Kaplan’s spare and elegant designs flit seamlessly from scene to scene (all 20 of them)....
...And with a score confected from assorted and flimsy film music by Richard Rodney Bennett?...
...In what proved to be a suitable pendant to the drama of Isadora, the company revives Jerome Robbins’s sublime Dances at a Gathering....
...It is easy to imagine how the dance could lift On the Town to a higher expressive level (Jerome Robbins was the original stage choreographer, Gene Kelly did the film)....
...“There is a lot of money here in Iraq,” Rodney Hunter, a state department political officer, tells the mayor....
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