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...Mikhail Baryshnikov the American Ballet Theater seemed "a beautiful Tiffany lamp with some parts missing" when he was named its artistic director in June 1979. Last week Misha allowed two of the more glittering panes to fall from the A.B.T. lamp. Celebrated Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, 27, and fast-rising Principal Dancer Patrick Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late...
...little girl's fantasy come to life. At 16 she has been given major roles by George Balanchine, the greatest living choreographer. New York City Ballet audiences, normally a reserved and sophisticated lot, cheer her on to three or four bows. Alexandra Danilova, a former prima ballerina, says that Darci has "a perfume in her dancing that makes you think, 'How beautiful...
...prima ballerina's company makes a Broadway debut...
...engagement of the new Makarova and Company ballet, which opened last week, gives dance on Broadway a slightly new turn. Rudolf Nureyev has frequently dropped in on the Great White Way, but always surrounded by a definitely subordinate cast of professionals. Natalia Makarova, probably the world's prima ballerina, aimed both higher and lower. She attracted a stunning array of top ballet stars: Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell, Cynthia Gregory, Denys Ganio, Elisabetta Terabust, Karen Kain and Peter Schaufuss. But to fill out the ranks, Makarova raided ballet schools for 29 youngsters, almost all lacking professional experience...
DIVORCED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, Oscar winner last seen on-screen as the abandoned husband who seeks to gain custody of his child in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer; and sometime Ballerina-Actress Anne Byrne, 36, after eleven years of marriage, one child; in New York City. Lately Hoffman has been squiring Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer...