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...RENE DESCARTES Appointed tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden, who orders him to write a ballet in verse and a comedy in five acts and to rise at 5 a.m. to teach philosophy. He catches a chill and dies of pneumonia...
Robin Hoffman, 32, a dance notator who records choreography for the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York City, knows the importance of timing. The former ballet dancer paid $3,400 in February to take a one-semester course at N.Y.U. in multimedia technique. She needed it to keep up in her field, since computers are slowly replacing graph paper and pencil for dance notation. "I couldn't even imagine five or six years ago taking a course like this," Hoffman says. "But this way I could learn a lot in a short period of time while still keeping...
...Silverman disappeared first. A former dancer with Radio City Music Hall's Corps de Ballet, she was last seen walking through her home in a nightgown one morning last week. Police found blood drops outside the house and noticed that the suspicious Guerin was missing himself. A New York City detective who saw a sketch of him on television realized that he bore a striking resemblance to a Kenneth Kimes, who had been arrested just the previous day with his mother Sante on an outstanding fraud warrant from Utah. The detective had a good eye. "Manny Guerin" was apparently...
...likely that Graham will be remembered as a dancer, at least not very clearly: films of her performances are scarce and mostly primitive. Much of her choreography has failed to wear well, especially by comparison with the work of George Balanchine, the unrivaled master of neoclassical ballet, and Taylor and Cunningham, her apostate alumni. No more than half a dozen of her dances, most notably Cave of the Heart and Appalachian Spring (1944), her radiant re-creation of a pioneer wedding, seem likely to stand the test of time. The rest are overwrought period pieces whose humorless, lapel-clutching intensity...
...theatrical legacy cannot always be measured by such seemingly objective yardsticks. Though there is no film of Nijinsky dancing, no one questions his place of honor in the history of 20th century ballet. Even if her beleaguered company should someday close its doors and her dances cease to be performed, Graham will doubtless be remembered in much the same way, for the shadow she cast was fully as long. Did she invent modern dance? No, but she came to embody it, arrogantly and spectacularly--and, it appears, permanently. "When the legend becomes fact," said the newspaper editor in John Ford...