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Extravagant Bluster. For a time, however, it looked as if Feld could think only with his feet. A year after his triumph he left ABT with extravagant bluster. Said he: "They wouldn't make me director of the company, they wouldn't give me the whole company to do with what I like." That outburst was enough to make critics write off Feld with a hauteur that resembled his own. Unrepentant, he set up shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when...
...Where there are universities, there are consulting firms," says Peter Merrill, vice president of operations for Abt Associates, a Cambridge-based social research firm, "and here in Cambridge it is a huge industry." Merrill says that Abt, which grossed over $16 million last year, has employed "a high number" of Harvard professors since it was started ten years ago. Abt currently pays Harvard professors between $300 and $500 a day, Merrill said...
...income after taxes for Abt rose from $149,000 in 1970 to $527,000 in 1974--an increase of just under 30 per cent every year since 1970. Revenues have skyrocketed from under $7 million in 1972 to $16.5 million in 1974. Merrill says that Abt's financial success is paralleled by all the other Cambridge firms that have gone into consulting...
Disunity remains the major problem of the ABT, the nation's oldest ballet troupe. Its star performers are second to none. Trouble is, there are almost as many styles as dancers, and more often than not, productions have a slightly underrehearsed look. Its secondary leads, and particularly the corps, vary from good to "good grief." When Natalia Makarova-the dazzling Russian defector who formerly starred with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet-floats to her forest glade in Swan Lake, the ragged corps resembles a Long Island duck farm rather than anything 19th century Choreographer Marius Petipa had in mind...
Study in Sadism. Still, ABT has the widest repertoire of any company around, ranging from admirable productions of such classics as Swan Lake and Coppelia, to The River, a bluesy work by Modern Dancer Alvin Ailey. The company diligently polishes up a few new ballets each season. In addition to Paquita and Tudor's restaging of Romeo, the current novelties include Ulf Gadd's choreography of The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok's horrific musical study in sadism, and an airy piece called Mendelssohn Symphony by a promising dancer-choreographer, Dennis Nahat...