Word: aroldingen
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...premieres unfolded, it became clear that the festival was not so much about Tchaikovsky (or Ib Andersen) but about City Ballet. If there were surprises, there were traditional elements: Balanchine working with Farrell, his principal muse of the past two decades, and Karin von Aroldingen, the ballerina who is perhaps closest to him personally; Robbins pushing the younger dancers but not forgetting Patricia McBride, his Girl in Pink in Dances at a Gathering (1969). But the story of N.Y.C.B. was best told in the frequent use of apprentices and students from the company-related School of American Ballet. Both John...
...wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...
...Aroldingen and Lüders are at the ballet's center. They reach out and try to sustain each other. They walk slowly to gether, they caress, at one point they push at each other as if the energy might connect them. But he withdraws, becomes frantic or engulfed in icy loneliness (all too heavily underscored by a set that looks like an ice floe along which curtains have somehow been hung). In the end he walks slowly into a void. She is left, head bowed, her hand cupping her chin. Both dancers give bold performances. One expects...
...dancer is indispensable to the company, as its leader never tires of saying. He works with the artists he has, and he demonstrates exactly what he wants them to do. Says Karin von Aroldingen, for whom he has created many parts: "He shows every movement He cannot use a move unless he knows what it feels like...
...young dancers. At times they look tense, as if trying too hard to make difficult new roles look easy. The women are, frankly, the largest in the company. As usual, Balanchine has managed to enhance their special attributes. In a few caressing gestures of Lavery's hand. Von Aroldingen shows an intimate, womanly quality; in a brief sequence when she looks like a participant in a walking race, Neary makes cheerful fun of herself...