Music: In the Garden

Here we have two full-grown people finding themselves suddenly on earth, explained the director. "To imagine that they don't have certain desires would be ridiculous. So we try to show, without being obscene about it, how they satisfy those desires." First the man, dressed in a skintight, flesh-colored costume, experimentally maneuvered the woman, similarly sheathed, into various positions—rump to rump, shoulder to shoulder—until at last she twined her body around his left leg and sinuously slid up to a standing embrace. He was Adam, of course, and she was Eve — -in a highly successful new San Francisco ballet titled Original...

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