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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...
...gala at the Metropolitan Opera House last week celebrated the opening of the A.B.T.'s New York season, but it stunned the faithful. Where was the Don Quixote fan dance, the castanets number, the latest Russian, the Japanese ballerina who can hold a pose on point till intermission? Their places were taken by regular members of the company, and fewer than half the top box office names even performed. There were just four dances on the program and no encores. Until Twyla Tharp's roof-raising Push Comes to Shove, the audience seemed in shock. They were learning...
...publicized sacking of Gelsey Kirkland. Last December, when Baryshnikov led his newly reshuffled troupe to Washington, D.C., for its first engagement, Kirkland, 28, along with her frequent partner Patrick Bissell, 23, did not show up for mandatory rehearsals. When they finally arrived they were fired for "professional misconduct." A ballerina of unusual imagination, and recklessness, Kirkland is also Misha's most exciting partner. But her temperament, too, is mercurial, and she has suffered from emotional problems in the past. She spent the winter giving concert performances, often with Bissell, and once failed to go on at the last moment...
Sally was wearing a strapless white gown with a full ballerina-length skirt. Atop her dark blond hair was a rhinestone tiara. The carnations she had shamed Jed into sending were tied on her wrist. She was overcome with pride and had to blink back tears. This was the moment each Ingenue had been working for all year. This was the whole glorious reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across...
...version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture out of thin...