Review of Vienna Ballet Festival, 1977. Companies performing included Hamburg Staatsoper Ballet in Mahler's Third symphony (Neumeier); Ballet du XXe Siècle in the Ninth symphony (Béjart); Scapino Ballet of Amsterdam; Merce Cunningham and Company; Maly Theater Ballet, Leningrad in 3 works of Vinogradov (Romeo and Juliet, La fille mal gardée, and Iaroslavna); the Wuppertal Dance Theater in The seven deadly sins (Bausch); and American Ballet Theatre in Giselle and works by Robbins, Tudor, Tetley, and Tharp.