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...high end, Mikhail Baryshnikov hailed him as the dancer of the century, and Jerome Robbins created a ballet in tribute to Astaire's "I'm Old Fashioned" dance with Rita Hayworth. Starchy Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
...supreme refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances also went beyond the comic energy of tap; his were stories of romance won and lost. Add to this his gorgeous poise and his teeming ingenuity...
...Barreling down a narrow street in Beijing in a silver 2002 Toyota Landcruiser, Jiang has his CD player blaring The Red Detachment of Women, a cacophonous propaganda ballet from the 1960s. With his assistant at the wheel, Jiang turns around to explain gleefully his fondness for the revolutionary score. Born in 1963 in China's central Hebei province, Jiang was the son of a senior captain in the People's Liberation Army. The family moved house a lot. Jiang affectionately recalls the rustic province of Guizhou where cured hams hung inside neighbors' homes and unattended warehouses of machine parts became...
...Russian leader insisted on guiding Bush through a dizzying day of sightseeing in the grand, canal-crossed city. Bush, normally more comfortable with baseball on TV and pickup tours of his Texas ranch, took in Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son at the Hermitage and a ballet at the Mariinsky Theater. At the Hermitage, Putin was asked whether he considered Bush an "art lover." Putin replied, artfully, that the perception in Europe that Americans don't appreciate art is "deeply mistaken." By day's end Bush's entourage had seized back control of the schedule. Putin had planned...
Most of the usual suspects are on the funding lists. The Black Students Association received $950 from the council, the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company received $500 for a spring performance and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence got a check for an undisclosed amount from the Trust. (The Trust and the Dean’s Office in the College will not say how much each group received, while the council and the OFA’s line item grants are readily available to the public online.) Everyone expects these groups to receive funding: they contribute significantly to the community...