"We in America,'' explained Choreographer Jerome Robbins. "dress, eat, think, talk and walk differently from any other people. We also dance differently." Just how differently, London balletgoers learned last week with a shock of excitement and surprise. To British eyes, Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A., in town for a one-week run, was the most rousing explosion of music and movement to hit Piccadilly since World War II.
Robbins' young troupe (average age: 24) reached London midway in a four-month State Department-sponsored tour of Europe and Israel; so far, the troupe has attracted capacity crowds everywhere...