ALEXANDROV RED ARMY SONG AND DANCE ENSEMBLE
The rest of the performance was equally reassuring about the possibility of peace and friendship between our nations. Thank goodness the chorus, founded by Alexander Alexandrov in 1928, does not celebrate the military in song. Military music is to music what Spam is to filet mignon, and the chorus knows the difference.
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Curiously, the dancers’ finale, Dance of the Elbe Meeting, which depicts the historic meeting between American and Soviet troops during World War II, is the weakest dance. Designed, I’d guess, for the ensemble’s American debut as a reminder of the wartime alliance against the Nazis, it goes nowhere. There is a cute, short jitterbug and lots of benevolent feeling, but the dance itself has little emotional or choreographic impact.
