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Across the disciplines, classes, office hours, laboratory experiments and field research inevitably clash with ballet recitals, baseball games, parent-teacher conferences, bedtimes and--sometimes most problematically-children's illnesses...
Tyler had studied ballet before coming to Radcliffe in 1941. She performed a dance for the Entertainment Unit, but hit a pair of rainbow striped men's boxers underneath her ballet costume...
...Bach cello music for Mikhail Baryshnikov, who had persuaded him back into the studio. Said Robbins at the time: "It was a real do-or-die thing for me." Still caught up by Bach, he adapted several two- and three-part inventions for students at the School of American Ballet. Working with people "at the beginning of life" restored his energy. Now 2 & 3 Part Inventions, a work of elysian balance and serenity, is performed at N.Y.C.B...
Robbins' latest rumble is giving ballet a much needed shot in the box office. May and June are the high season for dance, especially in New York, with both big national companies, N.Y.C.B. and A.B.T., performing. But stretches of empty seats remain in both houses this year. The performances of West Side Story Suite, however, were virtually sold out well before opening night. Brave new works are in very short supply in the '90s. West Side Story Suite is new, but the material is not, nor is it strictly ballet. But it brings some boldness and vivacity...
DIED. ALEXANDER BORIS GODUNOV, 45, dancer-actor; from the effects of acute alcoholism; in West Hollywood, California. After 13 years with the Bolshoi ballet, Godunov defected to the West in 1979. For three years his graceful yet powerful dancing was a fixture at the American Ballet Theater. But after a falling out with artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov, Godunov turned to film, playing a farmer in Witness (1985) and a terrorist in Die Hard...