Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just can't help but be amazed by it," he said. "I think of [the bacterium] as a ballet dancer...
...U.S.S.R. also appears ready to move. The Soviets have said that they are "encouraged" by Reagan's letter, and have refrained from public sniping. They have agreed to 13 new educational, scientific and cultural exchanges, following the successful U.S. tour of the Kirov Ballet this summer. All together, says a Western diplomat, "we are satisfied that this glacier is beginning to move...
...million each. A fifth partner, Paul Raether, 39, joined the firm in April. Kravis, the only member of the group with any visibility, lives in a $5.5 million Park Avenue apartment, collects 19th century British oil paintings and serves on the board of the New York City Ballet...
...some better programs. Nureyev, 48, is an overflowing force, but as long as he insists on performing, he will unbalance his company in the effort to provide for himself. In this country, audiences are accustomed to more stringently edited programs, whether among the concentrated riches at New York City Ballet or the more eclectic American Ballet Theatre and Joffrey Ballet. Americans like to see dancers' qualities through their interpretation of choreography. With the Paris troupe, one often had to try to find the dancer in spite of the material...
...five operas and staged theatrical versions of his works, including the classic Where the Wild Things Are. Trying something new, Sendak last week was at work on his first movie. He teamed up with Director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf) and Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet to film The Nutcracker, a production that Sendak designed three years ago at the request of Kent Stowell, the company's artistic director. The transition from page to stage to film, says Sendak, was radical because "being a writer and illustrator, I don't work in three-dimensional scale. There...